Is rocket artillery still useful? Syrian conflict did not have much video, probably not used as much...

>Even the Ukraine conflict does not have much with regard to missile artillery being used.
Oh no, you're retarded

they are flares on every video involving russian helis you will see them deploying flares while low

WHAT THE FUCK?! Are you 9 years old?

Assad was popping off SCUDs like fucking candy in the early part of the war.

At around 2:00 a 'flare' touched the ground, at around 2:06 explosions happen around the 'flares'. Also if those were 'anti infrared flares' you don't need to deploy them at that low because the ground is hot enough to mask the helicopter.

"Assad"

Yeah sure goyim.

they lost enough hinds flying low user even with flares

>Scuds
>Rocket artillery

???

What?

Fuck off.
It counts, and thats how SCUDs have been employed typically.

Yes. US largely gone away from the submunitions due to a treaty about unexploded ordnance, 3-5% of the bomblets typically wouldn’t go off.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M270_Multiple_Launch_Rocket_System

One launcher firing twelve rockets can completely blanket one square kilometer with submunitions. For this reason, the MLRS is sometimes referred to as the "Grid Square Removal System"

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>what is the BM-21 ''Grad''
In ukraine it's basically artillery only now with rare firefights. Rocket artillery is fucking great
youtube.com/watch?v=dedmxovjSR0

Nice reality user, a shame there's no evidence.

>It's great
>America does not field it only subhumans

Yeah, 'great'.

>Even the Ukraine conflict does not have much with regard to missile artillery being used.
Nigger what? The Grads literally stopped the Ukrainian army dead in it's tracks when they tried to take back the conflict zones. Being able to shred an entire company that stopped somewhere to rest is a pretty good ability to have.

>muh collateral damage
Pussy ass americanski

Yes.
>This is of course for the top end militaries.
Meh, lobbing huge volumes of inexpensive rockets or cluster munition towards your adversary will keep their heads down and shock their morale pretty badly. Sure it's nice if you can precision strike but you'll need intel/air superiority. Ukrainian/Russian conflict saw them shelling the fuck out of each other with those rockets and those were fairly big troops concentrations engaging each other.

They even fire from within the borders of RF.

yes much faster response then normal arty and much faster delivery of much bigger payload.

Its point and click grid removal system.
>stop
>point towards enemy
> 30s later you shoot 150 rounds that would take normal arty minutes.
>GTFO!

You should go ask people that have been on the receiving end of a salvo if they think it is useful.

Rocket artillery has some big advantages over tube artillery:
-deliver a big load of explosive in a short time. This is very important because its well know that, although artillery is still the queen of the battlefield regarding making casualties, most of them happens in the first moment of artillery bombing. Later, casualties decreased because everybody has hit the dirt or has token cover.
-it has bigger range.
-its technically simple. Its easy to make rockets and rockets launcher than artillery tubes.

Cons:
- it has a minimum range greater than artillery tube. They add aerobrakes to the rockets to shorter their range.
-treaties against submunitions fuck them a lot, specially the modern big caliber systems, that rely in submunitions to cover more targets with less rockets.
-they have less accuracy because rockets are bigger than artillery round so wind affects them more than to artillery rounds.
-their ammo are more difficult to handle than tube's artillery because its bigger.
-its less flexible. For Smaller targets or point targets you will use tubes artillery. In the past, as you needed lots of rounds to hit a target, there wasnt as big difference, but now with guided rounds, tubes are a lot better for point targets

It's an area saturation system that is very effective against troops & logistics in the open. Not so much on fortified positions but that all depends on the submunitions used(if any).

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>The Grads literally stopped the Ukrainian army dead in it's tracks
Shit is easy, when you can lob that stuff right over the border or can move your artillery quickly over the border, shoot and move back, since Ukraine cant go to full scale war with you.
Easy as pathetic, when you have no morals at all.

What if You strap SDB to a 277mm rocket?

Best guess, flares but also grenade launcher.

No it's not you dumbass.
It's simply designed to get as many projectiles out of a battery as quickly as possible for both maximized effect and faster relocation.

>rocket artillery
>expensive
Wheeze

I think there are already projects like this in development.

Americans are subhumans too.

but then again, russians aren't people...

>Ukrainian/Russian conflict saw them shelling the fuck out of each other with those rockets and those were fairly big troops concentrations engaging each other.
Most of that was because the Russians were trying to maintain plausible deniability. Which is why the RuAF wasn't involved, and they didn't use their PGMs, which were mainly produced after the breakup of the USSR.

aka its a fuckign weapon designed to create chaos and misery in the surrounding area

It's one way for a country to get (or to get more of) what essentially a short range ballistic missile without triggering the MTCR treaty

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>ukraine
No such thing.

youtube.com/watch?v=8_j3WrFx-J4
youtube.com/watch?v=-KPAx2gnJfA

>>Even the Ukraine conflict does not have much with regard to missile artillery being used.
>Oh no, you're retarded
This. I saw excellent aerial footage of rocket artillery hitting wide area target.
The effect of multiple rockets hitting AT ONCE, with zero warning, was devastating.

>Syrian conflict did not have much video, probably not used as much
Must be retarded?

>Even the Ukraine conflict does not have much with regard to missile artillery being used.
OK, this guy is retarded for sure

IIRC this strike was done by a small number of 9A52 and/or 9A53 "Tornado" MLRS.

Russians bombed Ukraine from Russian side of the border with rocket artillery.