한화70미리 다련장의 아버지??

Lighter MRLs.
        As well as the medium systems described above, there is also a requirement for lighter systems that can either be towed by or mounted on light vehicles.
        Good examples of just such a system are the Russian RPU-14, the Chinese Type 63 107mm and 130mm systems and the South African Mechem RO107 systems. Such weapon systems are ideal for Airborne units, Quick Reaction and Rapid Deployment forces and Raider units.

        The South African version of the Type 63 is fitted with a UHF proximity fuse and 80% of rounds fired to maximum range are claimed to fall within a 150 x 200m area. Lethal area for each rocket given as 120 square metres. Each rocket weighs 19kg and maximum range for the Mechem rocket is given as 8,500m. Minimum range is 1.5km. Rockets made by some other companies claim a range in excess of 10km. Range of the 107mm rocket compliments the performance of most 120mm mortars. In the Chinese army launchers are under the control of Infantry regiments to provide a short-range, intensive area firepower. Several designs of single-tube launcher are also available for quasi-guerilla operations. It would not surprise me if a variant of this rocket that could be launched directly from its transport container in the manner of the Wurfgerät 40/41 is eventually developed.

        Light vehicles mounting such systems can give an air assault force a potent indirect fire capability to suppress enemy air defenses. The vehicles can be landed by helicopters, allowed to launch a barrage then heli-lifted out.

        The 2.75” FFAR rocket systems are normally used as aircraft armament but have great potential as ground weapons too. The 2.75” FFAR weighs around 13kg compared to the 18.8kg of the 107mm but has 4.8lbs of explosive content (M229) compared to 2.9lbs for the 107mm.

        Larry Altersitz:- A 2.75”/70mm has a 17lb HE warhead good to 10km and one pod would cover a big area. (19x17lb = 323lb of metal on a target. That's half a 155mm battery and 1½ of a 105mm battery). Six pods on a single launcher towed by a Hummer is almost a ton on a big area target and really says “Thou Goofest” to those in the area of interest.

        PW: Or looked at another way, a 155mm shell has 15lb of HE, a 105mm 5lb of HE and a 2.75” M229 rocket 4.8lb, so a pod of 19 rockets is equivalent to a salvo from a whole battery of 155mm or a three batteries of 105mm.

        A copy of Jane's Armour and Artillery 1994-95 reveals a number of 2.75”/70mm MRL systems in use or then available for production. These include:-
LAU97 Belgium*
AVIBRAS SBAT-70 Brazil
Bristol Aerospace CRV 7 Canada
IPTN NDL-40 Indonesia*
Hau Fah 1 & 3 Thailand
MKEK MAKSAM RA-7040 Turkey
BEI 70mm Rapid Deployment Multiple Rocket Weapon System (RD-MRWS) USA.
        *These systems use 70mm rockets other than the 2.75” Hydra 70 FFAR.

 

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The SARMAC S.A “Rattlebox” was a Brandt-designed rocket system offered in the mid-1970's. It was a lightweight system intended “..in attack to support the infantry and in defence to break up the enemy attack. It can also be used to cover prepared obstacles with fire” (Jane's Infantry Weapons 1976, p.506). A simple 7-9 kg stand was used to mount expendable launch packs. The early model mounts three packs but later sources describe a 16 round weapon so evidently this was increased to four. The entire assembly weighed 30-40 kg and could be moved by two men with a light trolley. Each launch unit contained four 50mm x 550mm, 1.3 kg rockets. A launch unit was 140 x 140 x 600mm and weighed under 8 kg. The 12-16 rockets could all be launched in under a second and range is given as 800m. A variety of rocket types were proposed but the standard would probably have been the HEAT-Frag “combination” round. Shaped-charge warhead penetration is given as 250mm (same as the FIROS-6 HEDP rocket).
         Rattleback and FIROS-6 suggest that a battalion level system to supplement the infantry's mortars would be practical, being a useful saturation fire system against infantry in the open and light armoured and softskin vehicles such as technicals. Possibly a single Rattlebox could be deployed by a single soldier?