A Look At Why The Multiple Launch Rocket System Is A Deadly And Effective Weapons Platform

We Are the Mighty: This U.S. Army artillery unit savaged 41 Iraqi battalions in 72 hours

During Desert Storm the 3rd Battalion, 27th Field Artillery Regiment provided artillery support to the 24th Infantry Division throughout the invasion of Iraq. During one phase of the war they took out 41 Iraqi battalion, two air defense sites, and a tank company in less than 72 hours.

3-27 entered Desert Storm with a new weapon that had never seen combat, the Multiple Launch Rocket System. Nearby soldiers took notice, to put it mildly, as the rockets screamed past the sound barrier on their way out of the launcher and then roared away from the firing point. A first sergeant from the 3-27 told The Fayetteville Observer that the first launch created panic in the American camp. Soldiers that had never seen an MLRS dove into cover and tried to dig hasty foxholes.

“It scared the pure hell out of everybody,” Sgt. Maj. Jon H. Cone said. But the Americans quickly came to love the MLRS.

“After that first time, it was showtime,” Cone said.

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WNU Editor: The Russian version of Multiple Launch Rocket System is just as deadly, and the use of this weapon is one of the main reasons why the Ukraine Army were defeated when they tried to retake eastern Ukraine last year. On a personal note, in the Second World War my father was a commander of an artillery company .... he also had command of a Katyusha unit (The Soviet Union's version of multiple rocket launchers in World War II). He told me numerous times on how effective these weapons were .... and the terror that it brought to the Germans when they were used. My father also told me numerous times that the closest that he ever came to being killed in the Second World War was when he experienced friendly fire from another Katyusha/artillery unit when they thought that his unit was the enemy. The approaching barrage made everyone scramble into a bunker .... but in the end when they crawled out of the bunker he noticed that half of his men were killed. My father was also wounded .... two months away from the front was his "reward".