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BM-27 Uragan

The BM-27 Uragan (Russian: БМ-27 Ураган, lit. 'Hurricane'; GRAU index 9P140) is a self-propelled 220 mm multiple rocket launcher designed in the Soviet Union to deliver cluster munitions. The system began its service with the Soviet Army in the late 1970s, and was its first spin and fin stabilized heavy multiple rocket launcher.

BM-27 Uragan (9P140)
БМ-27 Ураган (9П140)

Multiple rocket launcher

Soviet Union

1975–present

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Soviet–Afghan War
War in Abkhazia (1992–1993)[1]
First Chechen War[1]
Second Chechen War[1]
Russo-Georgian War[1]
War in Donbass[1]
Iran-Israel proxy conflict[2]
Syrian Civil War[1]
Second Nagorno-Karabakh War
Russian invasion of Ukraine[3]

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1970s

Splav State Research and Production Enterprise

1975–present

See Variants

20 tonnes (44,092 lbs)

6

220 mm (8.66 in)

16

35 km (22 mi)

>70km

PG-1 panoramic telescope

Two engines, with separate gearboxes and drive shafts, that are longitudinally mounted, one on each side of vehicle immediately behind cab

8×8 wheeled

500 km (311 mi)

An updated version known as Uragan-1M was commissioned in 2008. The truck vehicle has no similarities.[4]

9P140 Uragan: Standard variant on truck.

ZIL-135

 [1] – 18 (not functional)

Afghanistan

 

Angola

  – 72 as of 2016[17]

Belarus

  – 9 as of 2021[18]

Eritrea

  – 3 as of 2021[19]

Guinea

  – Saw limited usage during Abkhazia War, out of service.

Georgia

  – Unknown[20]

Iran

  – 180 as of 2016[21]

Kazakhstan

  – 6 as of 2016[22]

Kyrgyzstan

  – 11 as of 2016[23]

Moldova

  – unknown

Myanmar

  – unknown

North Korea

  – 200 in service and 700 in storage as of 2016[24]

Russia

 [25]

Syria

 [1] – 12

Tajikistan

 [1] – 48

Tanzania

  – 60 as of 2016[26]

Turkmenistan

  – 70 as of 2016[27]

Ukraine

  – 48 as of 2016[28]

Uzbekistan

 [1] – Over 50. Seen intensive action in the ongoing civil war.

Yemen

 – Brazilian long-range multiple launch rocket system

Astros II

 – Russian multiple rocket launcher

BM-24

 – Soviet/Russian multiple launch rocket system

BM-30 Smerch

 – Iranian long-range multiple launch rocket system

Fajr-5

 – Iranian multiple launch rocket system

Falaq-2

 – American artillery rocket system

M142 HIMARS

 – Soviet/Russian multiple launch rocket system BM-13 of World War II

Katyusha

 – Israeli Multiple Launch Rocket System

MAR-290

 – American armored self-propelled artillery

M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System

 – Indian long-range multiple launch rocket system

Pinaka multi-barrel rocket launcher

 – Turkish long-range multiple launch rocket system

TOROS

 – Russian long-range multiple launch rocket system

9A52-4 Tornado

Prenatt, Jamie; Hook, Adam (2016). Katyusha – Russian Multiple Rocket Launchers 1941–Present. New Vanguard 235. Oxford: Osprey Publishing.  978-1-4728-1086-1.

ISBN

(February 2016). The Military Balance 2016. Vol. 116. Routlegde. ISBN 9781857438352.

International Institute for Strategic Studies

(February 2021). The Military Balance 2021. Vol. 121. Routledge. ISBN 9781032012278.

International Institute for Strategic Studies

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