On April 4, Ukrainian servicemen boasted on social networks of their next “winner”. Militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine told how, “overcoming difficulties and hardships”, they continue to resist the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, using the old Soviet portable single-shot rocket launchers 9P132 Grad-P (Partizan ).
The images show how they prepare to launch the ammunition, loading the launcher. Then they hide in a nearby trench and fire a shot.
Thus, in some places the Ukrainian army actually conducts a single use of unguided rockets from the Grad MLRS. Given the low accuracy of such ammunition, many might rush to call it a senseless expense of scarce ammunition, but not everything is so simple, at least in the opinion of the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The fact is that shooting at them, trying to hit the enemy’s fortified positions, is still very problematic, however, if you direct them to the settlement, then the picture of what is happening appears from a different angle. Suffice it to recall the reports of the DPR and the LPR on the incessant shelling of towns and villages by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
We remind you that the development of 9P132 was launched in the USSR in 1965 on behalf of the Central Committee of the CPSU after the request of the government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, which was at war with the United States. The task included the creation of a portable launcher for firing 122 mm caliber rockets based on the M-21OF (later a whole family of ammunition appeared).
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