Category: Ukraine weapon

What could be more important in a weapon than the iron from which it is created? Idea. Concept. The doctrine within which it is created. American multiple launch rocket systems at the project stage were radically different from their Soviet counterparts. In the USSR, MLRS were considered as a means of creating a dense firing shaft. The United States conceived its brainchild as a tool capable of breaking the prohibitive numerical superiority of the artillery of the Warsaw Pact bloc with high-speed and surgically accurate strikes. The Soviet defense industry continued to think in terms of the Second World War, while the United States, realizing the conceptual impasse of the symmetrical arms race, relied on the creation of a new generation of weapons. …