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    The Katyusha (Russian: Катю́ша, IPA: [kɐˈtʲuʂə] ) is a type of rocket artillery first built and fielded by the Soviet Union in World War II. Multiple...
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    A rocket launcher is a weapon that launches an unguided, rocket-propelled projectile. The earliest rocket launchers documented in imperial China consisted...
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    multiple rocket launcher (MRL) or multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) is a type of rocket artillery system that contains multiple launchers which are...
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  • Russian form of Katherine or Catherine. Katyusha or Katusha may refer to: Katyusha rocket launcher, Soviet rocket launcher of World War II, named after the song...
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  • and BM-31 "Katyusha" rocket launchers that were used by the Red Army in World War II. The song is about a Russian woman named Katyusha. Standing on...
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    Novosti Press Pub. House. p. 7. "Katyusha rocket launcher. Weapon of Victory: multiple launch rocket system 'Katyusha'". ezoteriker. Retrieved 5 June 2022...
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    (~50) Katyusha, BM-13, BM-8, and BM-31 multiple rocket launchers of World War II BM-14 140mm multiple rocket launcher BM-21 Grad 122mm multiple rocket launcher...
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    1921 with development of Solid-fuel rockets, which resulted in the development of the Katyusha rocket launcher. Rocket scientists and engineers, particularly...
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    exported to South Yemen, which used them against North Yemen. Katyusha rocket launcher Wikimedia Commons has media related to BM-25. Foss, Christopher...
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    8 cm Raketen-Vielfachwerfer (category Rocket artillery)
    Raketen-Vielfachwerfer was a German rocket launcher of the Second World War. The launcher was a near-copy of the Soviet BM-8 Katyusha rocket launcher produced under the...
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    Polonez is a Belarusian 300 mm rocket artillery system of a launcher unit comprising eight rockets packaged in two four-rocket pods mounted on a MZKT-7930...
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    Katyusha, BM-13, BM-8, and BM-31 multiple rocket launchers of World War II BM-14 140mm multiple rocket launcher BM-21 122mm multiple rocket launcher List...
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    Gas Dynamics Laboratory (category Rocket propulsion)
    of missiles in the Katyusha rocket launcher, as well as liquid propellant rockets, which became the prototypes of Soviet rockets and spacecraft. At the...
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    War II, in the form of the German Nebelwerfer family of rocket ordnance designs, Soviet Katyusha-series and numerous other systems employed on a smaller...
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    The Type 63 multiple rocket launcher is a towed, 12-tube, 107mm rocket launcher produced by the People's Republic of China in the early 1960s and later...
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    tires, though some use continuous tracks. The Katyusha rocket launcher was an early launcher mostly mounted on missile trucks used by the Soviet Union...
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    Reactive Scientific Research Institute (category Rocket propulsion)
    research and development institutions to focus on rocket technology. RNII developed the Katyusha rocket launcher and its research and development were very important...
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    developing a multiple rocket launcher based on the RS-132 rocket. In August 1939, the completed rocket was the BM-13 / Katyusha rocket launcher (BM stands for...
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    November 1955. Langemak and other participants in the creation of the Katyusha rocket launcher received official recognition only in 1991. By decree of President...
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    BM-24 (category Multiple rocket launchers of the Soviet Union)
     Vietnam Katyusha rocket launcher Reload drill Captured Egyptian BM-24 at parade in Jerusalem, 1968 BM-24 at Batey Haosef Museum The Israeli 36 rocket MAR-240...
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    developing a multiple rocket launcher based on the RS-132 rocket. In August 1939, the completed product was the BM-13 / Katyusha rocket launcher. Towards the end...
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    rather than round, tubes. Katyusha rocket launcher List of U.S. Army rocket launchers by model number Multiple rocket launcher Nebelwerfer U.S. Navy Bureau...
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    Valkiri (category Wheeled self-propelled rocket launchers)
    is a South African self-propelled multiple rocket launcher. It is a 127mm system with a wheeled launcher vehicle, and fire control equipment developed...
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    combat aircraft of many nations worldwide by means of a rocket launcher. The 70 mm rocket system offers several warhead configurations that fulfill a wide...
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  • fuel rockets, including the RS-82 and RS-132 missiles and the Katyusha rocket launcher, where Pobedonostsev and Tikhonravov continued to work on rocket design...
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  • Systems Multiple Cradle Launcher, also called Jahanam Launcher (Arabic: الراجمة جهنم), is an Emirati made multiple rocket launcher unique to the United Arab...
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    T34 Calliope (category Self-propelled rocket launchers)
    The Rocket Launcher T34 (Calliope) was a tank-mounted multiple rocket launcher used by the United States Army during World War II. The launcher was placed...
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    Panzerfaust anti-tank grenade launcher, the American M1 bazooka and its German Panzerschreck derivative anti-tank rocket launchers, and also by the various...
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    is a self-propelled 122 mm multiple rocket launcher designed in the Soviet Union. The system and the M-21OF rocket were first developed in the early 1960s...
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    Nikolai Tikhomirov (chemical engineer) (category Rocket science pioneers)
    of the Gas Dynamics Laboratory, specialist in rocket technology and one of the inventors of the Katyusha, which he was awarded the Hero of Socialist Labor...
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