WR-40 Langusta
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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
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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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