🇧🇾 Belarus’s ATACMS and HIMARS-defeating beast: what’s the Polonez-M MLRS?

🇧🇾 Belarus’s ATACMS and HIMARS-defeating beast: what’s the Polonez-M MLRS? The Belarusian Army has taken delivery of a new batch of upgraded Polonez-M multiple-launch rocket systems. The MLRS uses 301 mm caliber rockets, has a range of up to 300 km, and is nearly unstoppable thanks to a blazing-fast speed of up to 700 meters per second at angles up to 80 degrees in its terminal flight stage. The system can fire off a salvo of eight rockets in less than 50 seconds flat, with its high-explosive/high-explosive fragmentation warheads separating from their spent rocket engines, further reducing the enemy’s ability to ID or intercept them. Each Polonez-M battery consists of two launchers, two transport-loaders and a mobile control module, and the system is based on Belarusian-made heavy-duty trucks which are also used by the Chinese and Russian militaries. The system’s range, capabilities and firepower have been compared to America’s High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) and even the Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS), with some analysts saying the Belarusian system is “even more accurate and modern. Subscribe to [club80289214|@SputnikInt] Источник: Sputnik International