FIROS
The Firos (FIROS) is an Italian multiple rocket launcher system developed during the Cold War. The system consisted of forty 122 mm long-range rockets mounted on an armoured 6×6 truck (lorry) for mobility. The first version developed was the Firos-25, 48 of which were exported to the United Arab Emirates in the 1980s.
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The Firos (FIROS) is an Italian multiple rocket launcher system developed during the Cold War. The system consisted of forty 122 mm long-range rockets mounted on an armoured 6×6 truck (lorry) for mobility. The first version developed was the Firos-25, 48 of which were exported to the United Arab Emirates in the 1980s.
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The more powerful Firos-30, with a range of over 30 km, was built in the late 1980s, and a single experimental battery entered service with the Italian Army in 1987. There were plans to buy about 60 launchers in the 1990s as a light complement for the costly M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System, but the program was terminated and the Army retained only the M270 as its sole rocket artillery system. The Firos is similar to the Russian BM-21 Grad in that they both use 122 mm rockets in groups of forty, although they differ considerably in command and control systems and their base vehicles. Firos rockets are compatible with BM-21 launchers and may have been sold to some customers like Syria. About 160 systems were built, including sixteen FIROS 6 systems with 51 mm rockets.
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- 1.Cita Military Today aw .
- 2.Cita Cappellano, Mosolo 2018 p. 118 .
- 3.Cita Forecastle International as .
- 4.Cita Chant 2014 p. 120 .
- 5.Cita Cappellano, Mosolo 2018 p. 113 .
- 6.Cita New Factoria ar .
- 7.Lo stesso calibro del sistema sovietico BM-21.
- 8.R.G. Sawhney. Field Artillery Today and Tomorrow. 7. 11. 1984.
- 9.FIROS-25. V. 1978.
- 10.Cita Cordesman, Al-Rhodhan 2007 p. 292 .
- 11.Gianluca Di Feo Veleni di Stato, BUR Rizzoli, Milano, 2011.
- 12.Si trattava di un lanciarazzi ad elevate prestazioni in calibro 152 mm.
- 13.Si trattava di due lanciarazzi leggeri a corto raggio. La RC-12 a 9 tubi di lancio in calibro 121 mm, mentre la IA-100 era a 24 tubi di lancio, entrambe posizionate sull'affusto di un obice da 105/14.
- 14.Ne esistevano di tre tipi, una composta da 84 bombette HE dotate di spoletta istantanea a percussione, 7 mine anticarro, o 66 mine antiuomo.
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