Image:Katiusha Rockerlancer.JPG

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A battery of Katyusha multiple-rocket launchers in operation. In 1940, the Main Artillery Administration had placed orders for experimental M-l 3 rockets, but in the same year a 16-rocket launcher was developed and mass production was authorized on 21 June 1941. The Red Army first used the Katyushas on 14 July 1941 and the results were reported as "excellent". The Katyushas were a formidable bombardment weapon much feared by the Germans and were closely guarded, usually hooded in canvas, manned by elite units designated "Guards Morlar Regiments".
Source

"The Eastern Front in Photographs", John Erickson
Date

1941
Author

Unknown
Permission
(Reusing this image)
This work was in the public domain in Russia according to Law No. 5351-I of Russia of July 9, 1993 (with revisions) on Copyrights and Neighbouring Rights. But the current status of this work is unknown because of the entering in force of Book IV of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation on January 1, 2008.

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