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 As of 2018, it has been replaced by the 9A52-4 Tornado.
