I was talking about possible Chinese invation to far east Russia and was replied that our salvo forces will stop them. Later I asked a bit more about Soviet/Russian salvo systems and was quite ammazed with them..... probably it is nothing new for you but it impressed me a lot.... what are global peers for these weapons? With these systems any massive attacks of China would make no sence at all..... I heard India and UAE has signed in to buy some Smerch....
1) TOS-1-4 Buratino.
I understand this is a short-range system (3.5 km) destroying everthing on a cetain area with compression waves and fire.... I have seen a marketing movie showing the effect of this on a building near which a rocket has hit.... it basically folded!!!
http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...ssia/tos-1.htm
http://warfare.ru/?catid=240&linkid=1582
2) Smerch
The recent version of this system has a standard range of 90km and can shoot a UAV which gives its observation of the target!!! Very powerful salvo can destroy a divsion and while system is quite mobile to be detected and destroyed.... by aviation! System is also very precise at its standard 90km range.
The new work is in development of new weaker munitions but with extended range of up to 190km at cost of less precision!!!
http://www.splav.org/en/arms/smerch/index.asp
http://www.army-technology.com/projects/smerch/
3) Uragan.... something like less advanced Smerch... I don't understand why somebody would need this if Smerch is available.... range is just 35km.
http://www.splav.org/en/arms/uragan/index.asp
4) and the good old Grad about which everybody know to much anyway..... This system is so cheap that half the world has it.... the range of this small truck is 40km and pretty good salvo power for small size of the system.
http://www.splav.org/en/arms/grad1/index.asp
I also learned that it is widelly used
http://www.artillery-mz.com/ru/supply/
why Iraqis never used Uragan or Grad during the Gulf wars? if they used much larger Scuds why did not use Uragan/Grad which are much easier to hide?
I never heard them using any salvo weapons during both wars.... if hided in Nasiriya it could hit a US millitary colums while approaching city by the road at distance of 35km. 38 seconds would have been just enough to make large damage and they hide it back some house or ditch.... it could be masked as a normal truck or fuel tank...