Hobby Boss 1:72 Scale 9A52-2 Smerch M Rocket Launcher
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Hobby Boss 1:72 Scale 9A52-2 Smerch M Rocket Launcher
Description
Description
The 9A52-2 Smerch-M is a Soviet heavy multiple rocket launcher. The system is designed to defeat personnel, armored, and soft-skinned targets in concentration areas, artillery batteries, command posts and ammunition depots.
It was created in the early 1980s and entered service in the Soviet Army in 1989. When first observed by the West in 1983, it received the code MRL 280mm M1983. It is expected to be superseded by the 9A52-4 Tornado.
The 9A52-2 launcher with all supporting equipment, including the 9T234-2 Transloader, and the 1K123 Vivary Fire Control System, is referred to as the complex 9K58. The first export customer for the 9A52 (12-round) system was Kuwait, with 27 systems delivered, with the United Arab Emirates being the second customer. China has also purchased this system from Russia. The weapon's accuracy is also claimed to have been improved.
The first works on the self-propelled rocket artillery system BM-30 Smiercz began at the turn of the 1970s and 1980s at the Spław plant in Tula. In 1989, the set was adopted by the Soviet Army. To this day (2017), it remains in service with the armed forces of the Russian Federation. Serial production started in 1989 and is continued to this day in Fabryka Spław Tule. The BM-30 Smiercz was a Soviet response to the American M-270 MLRS launcher. The BM-30 set is based on the MAZ-543M truck chassis. On such a chassis was mounted a 12-rail 300 mm missile launcher for the 9M55 family of missiles. They have a range of up to 70 km, and in 1998 their modification with a range of about 90 km was revealed. The BM-30 launchers, along with the BM-27 set, were and still are the backbone of artillery divisions and brigades in the Soviet and Russian troops. The BM-30 set has been exported to several countries, including India, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. The BM-30 took part in several conflicts - mainly in the Second War in Chechnya and in the civil war in Syria.
