WR-40 Langusta is a Polish
self-propelled multiple rocket launcher
A multiple rocket launcher (MRL) or multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) is a type of rocket artillery system that contains multiple rocket launcher, launchers which are fixed to a single weapons platform, platform, and shoots its rocket (weapon ...
developed by Centrum Produkcji Wojskowej
HSW SA. The first 32 units of the WR-40 entered service in 2010.
The Langusta (''crawfish'') is based on a deeply modernized and re-worked Soviet cold-war era
BM-21 launcher. The old petrol
Ural-375D truck chassis was replaced with a modern one, and the launcher was fitted with a
fire control system
A fire-control system (FCS) is a number of components working together, usually a gun data computer, a Director (military), director and radar, which is designed to assist a ranged weapon system to target, track, and hit a target. It performs th ...
.
The carrier used is Polish 6x6
Jelcz truck model P662D.35 with low-profile armoured cabin for a whole crew.
[Grzegorz Hołdanowicz, ''Feta z Langustą'', RAPORT-wto 04/2007]
(Polish) Also new ammunition Feniks-Z with 42 km range was adopted.
[
The prototype was made in 2006 and given to the army in 2007, after successful trials.][ A series modernization of 75 vehicles followed.
Another step in the modernization of Polish rocket artillery is project 'Homar', corresponding to ]HIMARS
The M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS ) is a light multiple rocket launcher developed in the late 1990s for the United States Army and mounted on a standard U.S. Army Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles (FMTV) M1140 truck frame ...
rocket system, carried on from 2007.
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References
Wheeled self-propelled rocket launchers
Self-propelled artillery of Poland
Multiple rocket launchers
Military vehicles introduced in the 2010s
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