Project Description
BM-30 S SMER S TECHNICAL DETAILS
The BM-30 Smerch, 9K58 Smerch or 9A52-2 Smerch-M is a Soviet heavy multiple rocket launcher. The system is designed to defeat personal, armoured and soft targets in concentration areas, artillery batteries, command posts and ammunition depots. It was designed in the early 1980s and entered service with the Soviet army in 1989. When it was first seen by the West in 1983, it was given the code MRL 280mm M1983. It has been replaced by the 9A52-4 Tornado since 2018.
