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BM 24

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Place of origin
  
Soviet Union

Crew
  
6

Produced
  
1947-58

Caliber
  
240 mm (9.45 in)

BM-24

Type
  
Multiple rocket launcher

Shell
  
Length: 1.18 m (3 ft 10 in) Weight: 112.5 kg (248 lb) Warhead: 46.9 kg (103 lb)

The BM-24 is a multiple rocket launcher designed in the Soviet Union. It is capable of launching 240mm rockets from 12 launch tubes. Versions of the BM-24 have been mounted on the ZIL-151 6x6 Truck chassis and the AT-S tracked artillery tractor, forming the BM-24T from the latter. Production began out of Automotive Factory no. 2 in 1947 Moscow.

Contents

Variants

  • BM-24 (8U31) - basic model, launcher mounted on the ZiS-151 truck.
  • BM-24M (2B3) - modified model, mounted on the ZIL-157.

    • Current operators

  •  Democratic People's Republic of Korea
  •  Yemen

    • Former operators

  •  China
  •  Cuba
  •  Czechoslovakia
  •  East Germany
  •  Egypt
  •  Hungary
  •  Iran
  •  Iraq
  •  Israel - Operated one battalion, consisting of vehicles captured from Egypt in the Six-Day War. The battalion took part in the Yom Kippur War and the 1982 Lebanon War.
  •  Jordan
  •  Libya
  •  Poland
  •  Soviet Union
  •  Sudan
  •  Syria
  •  Tunisia
  •  Vietnam

    • References

    BM-24 Wikipedia
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