BM-24

The BM-24 is a multiple rocket launcher designed in the Soviet Union. It is capable of launching 240mm rockets from 12 launch tubes. Versions of the BM-24 have been mounted on the ZIS-151 and ZIL-157 6×6 Truck chassis and the AT-S tracked artillery tractor, forming the BM-24T from the latter. Production began out of Automotive Factory no. 2 in 1947 in Moscow. Israel operated one battalion, consisting of vehicles captured from Egypt in the Six-Day War. The battalion took part in the Yom Kippur War and the 1982 Lebanon War.

Variants

• BM-24 (8U31) – Basic model, mounted on a ZIS-151 chassis.
• BM-24M (2B3) – Modified model, mounted on a ZIL-157 chassis.
• BM-24T – Tracked model, mounted on an AT-S chassis.
• Israeli upgraded variant.

Operators

Current operators

• Algeria: 30 BM-24 as of 2016[update]
• Angola
• North Korea: KN-16 and BM-24
• Yemen

Former operators

• China
• Cuba
• Czechoslovakia
• East Germany
• Egypt: 48 in store as of 2016[update]
• Hungary
• Iran
• Iraq
• Israel: 36 in store as of 2016[update]
• Kuwait
• Jordan
• Libya
• Poland
• Soviet Union
• Sudan
• Syria
• Tunisia
• Vietnam

See also

• Katyusha rocket launcher

Photo gallery

• Reload drill
• Captured Egyptian BM-24 at parade in Jerusalem, 1968
• BM-24 at Batey Haosef Museum
• The Israeli 36 rocket MAR-240 on a Sherman tank chassis at Yad la-Shiryon Museum

• Prenatt, Jamie; Hook, Adam (2016). Katyusha – Russian Multiple Rocket Launchers 1941–Present. New Vanguard 235. Oxford: Osprey Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1-4728-1086-1.
• International Institute for Strategic Studies (February 2016). The Military Balance 2016. Vol. 116. Routlegde. ISBN 9781857438352.

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