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==== Multiple rocket launcher ====
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A multiple rocket launcher is a type of unguided [[rocket artillery]] system. Like other [[rocket (weapon)|rocket]] artillery, multiple rocket launchers are less accurate and have a much lower (sustained) rate of fire than batteries of traditional [[artillery]] guns. However, they have the capability of simultaneously dropping many hundreds of kilograms of explosive, with devastating effect.

The [[Korea|Korean]] [[Hwacha]] is an example of an early weapon system with a resemblance to the modern-day multiple rocket launcher. The first self-propelled multiple rocket launchers – and arguably the most famous – were the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[Katyusha rocket launcher|BM-13 Katyushas]], first used during World War II and exported to Soviet allies afterwards. They were simple systems in which a rack of launch rails was mounted on the back of a truck. This set the template for modern multiple rocket launchers. The first modern multiple rocket launcher was the [[Nazi Germany|German]] ''[[15 cm Nebelwerfer 41]]'' of the 1930s,{{citation needed|date=September 2013}} a small towed artillery piece. Only later in [[World War II]] did the British deploy similar weapons in the form of the [[Mattress (rocket)|Land Mattress]].The Americans mounted tubular launchers atop [[M4 Sherman]] tanks to create the [[T34 Calliope]] rocket launching tank, only used in small numbers, as their closest equivalent to the Katyusha.
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File:Panzerwerfer alias Maultier.jpg|[[Nazi Germany|German]] [[Panzerwerfer]] [[Half-track|half-tracked]] MRLS.
File:BM-31-12 on ZIS-12 chassis at the Museum on Sapun Mountain Sevastopol 4.jpg|[[Katyusha rocket launcher]] at the Museum ([[Diorama]]) on Sapun Mountain, [[Sevastopol]]
File:9a52 smerch.jpg|[[BM-30 Smerch]] 300&nbsp;mm rocket launcher in raised position
File:Army mlrs 1982 02.jpg|The [[M270]] MLRS conducts a rocket launch.
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