WR-40 Langusta is a Polish
self-propelled multiple rocket launcher
A multiple rocket launcher (MRL) or multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) is a type of rocket artillery system that contains multiple launchers which are fixed to a single platform, and shoots its rocket ordnance in a fashion similar to a volle ...
developed by Centrum Produkcji Wojskowej
HSW SA. The first 32 units of the WR-40 entered service in 2010.
The Langusta (''spiny lobster'') is based on a deeply modernized and re-worked Soviet cold-war era
BM-21
The BM-21 "Grad" (russian: БМ-21 "Град", lit= hail) is a self-propelled 122 mm multiple rocket launcher designed in the Soviet Union. The system and the M-21OF rocket were first developed in the early 1960s, and saw their first comba ...
launcher. Old petrol
Ural-375D
The Ural-375 is a general purpose 4.5 ton 6×6 truck, which has been produced at the Ural Automotive Plant in the Russian SFSR since 1961. The Ural-375 replaced the ZIL-157 as the standard Soviet Army truck in 1979. It was itself replaced by the ...
truck chassis was replaced with a modern one, and the launcher was fitted with a
fire control system
A fire-control system (FCS) is a number of components working together, usually a gun data computer, a director, and radar, which is designed to assist a ranged weapon system to target, track, and hit a target. It performs the same task as a ...
.
The carrier used is Polish 6x6
Jelcz
Jelcz (pronounced like ''Yelch'' after the town of the same name) is a Polish brand of trucks, military vehicles, buses and trolley buses produced by ''Zakłady Samochodowe Jelcz''/''Jelczańskie Zakłady Samochodowe'', with both names roughly ...
truck model P662D.35 with low-profile armoured cabin for a whole crew.
[Grzegorz Hołdanowicz, ''Feta z Langustą'', RAPORT-wto 04/2007]
(Polish) Also new ammunition Feniks-Z with 42 km range was adopted.
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The prototype was made in 2006 and given to the Army in 2007, after successful trials.][ A series modernization of 75 vehicles followed.
Another step in the modernization of Polish rocket artillery is project 'Homar', corresponding to HIMARS rocket system, carried on from 2007.
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See also
* BM-21 Grad
The BM-21 "Grad" (russian: БМ-21 "Град", lit= hail) is a self-propelled 122 mm multiple rocket launcher designed in the Soviet Union. The system and the M-21OF rocket were first developed in the early 1960s, and saw their first comba ...
* RS-122
The RS-122 is a Georgian mobile multiple rocket launcher firing 122 mm rockets. It was developed in 2011 and put on production display in February 2012. The RS-122 is a heavily modified version of the Soviet BM-21 Grad. Its main characteris ...
* RM-70 multiple rocket launcher
The RM-70 (''Raketomet vzor 1970'') multiple rocket launcher is a Czechoslovak Army version and heavier variant of the BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launcher, providing enhanced performance over its parent area-saturation rocket artillery system tha ...
References
Wheeled self-propelled rocket launchers
Military vehicles of Poland
Multiple rocket launchers
Military vehicles introduced in the 2010s
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