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V BM-30 Smerch (Russian: Смерч, “tornado”, “whirlwind”), 9K58 Smerch or 9A52-2 Smerch-M is a Soviet heavy multiple rocket launcher. The system is intended to defeat personnel, armored, and soft targets in concentration areas, artillery batteries, command posts and ammunition depots. It was designed in the early 1980s and entered service in the Soviet Army in 1989. When first observed by the West in 1983, it received the code MRL 280mm M1983. It is being superseded by the 9A52-4 Tornado since 2018.

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The BM-30 Smerch is a multiple rocket launcher system developed by the Soviet Union in the late 1980s. It is capable of firing 12 rockets with a range of up to 90 km and a payload of up to 800 kg. The BM-30 Smerch can deliver various types of warheads, including high-explosive, cluster, thermobaric, chemical and nuclear. The BM-30 Smerch is mounted on a MAZ-543M 8×8 truck chassis and has a crew of four. The BM-30 Smerch is one of the most powerful and accurate rocket artillery systems in the world, and has been exported to several countries, including Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, India, Kazakhstan, Peru, Venezuela and Vietnam.