"Stalin's Organ": The Katyusha Rocket System in World War II
The Katyusha multiple-launch rocket system became famous in combat on the Eastern Front. Here's What You Need to Know: Katyushas were inexpensive and uncomplicated to produce. The fighting at Orsha saw the first battlefield use of the Red Army’s experimental battery of BM-13 multiple-launch rocket systems. Later in the war, these fearsome weapons were lovingly nicknamed Katyusha (Little Kate) after a popular wartime song. The development of these weapons began well before the war, in 1938, with a small trial run of 40 systems built by the time of the German invasion. The prototypes of BM v...
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