Editing BM-21 Hail (section)

==IRL==
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Like a lot of soviet gear the BM-21 "Grad" or "''Hail''" (hail <s>being a nickname it has</s> is one translation of grad, the other is city) is still in use today because of it's simplicity: it's a truck with a rocket launcher on it. It's not rocket science. The Hail is a descendant of the BM-14 and the more widely known BM-13 "Katyusha" rocket platforms. The Nazi's in world war 2 get a lot of credit for their rocketry, but the Soviets were also really into rocket based artillery weapons. Katyusha were the first mass produced self propelled artillery pieces of the Soviet Union, predating the American T34 Calliope rocket launchers and even the famous Nazi Nebelwerfer by two years.

The BM-21 is much like it's ancestors and is very good at delivering quick, sharp rapid volleys of 122mm rockets very, very quickly. Wikipeida claims that one battalion of eighteen launchers is able to deliver 720 rockets in a single volley, which is enough dakka to impress even an ork. 

Keep an eye out for future versions of this thing in Team Yankee, the mad Soviets made a version of this thing air droppable and some of it's rocket payloads IRL include things like AT mines, radio jammers and some HEAT warheads. It also has two descendants with higher caliber:  BM-27 "Uragan" or "Hurricane" (220mm, 1975) and BM-30 "Smerch" or "[[Whirlwind|Whirlwind]]" (300 mm, 1989, but it was perfectly ready for production in 85 with generals struggling to find out what the hell they are going to do with this firepower, so who knows..).

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