This Crazy Militarized Semi Is Bristling With 240 Artillery Rockets
No this is not a prop from the latest Fast and the Furious movie.
By Tyler Rogoway April 1, 2017
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It looks like it belongs on the G.I. Joe aisle of a toy store rather than on an actual battlefield, but there is no doubt the UAE's Jobaria Defense Systems were thinking big when they designed their Multiple Cradle Launcher (MCL). The concept combines an Oshkosh M1070 Heavy Equipment Transporter with a 29-meter trailer outfitted with four multiple rocket launchers that hold 60 122mm rockets each. That's a grand total of 240 rockets at the operator's disposal and a whole lot of firepower for a single land combat system to bring to the table.
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The main armament for the MCL is the Roketsan TR/TRB-122 Extended Range Artillery Rocket of Turkish origin. These rockets come in high-explosive and steel-ball warhead varieties, the latter of which sends thousands of steel balls flying at very high velocities after being detonated by proximity fuse. Nasty, nasty stuff. The high-explosive TR-122 has an effective radius of 20 meters, while the steel shot slinging TRB-122's effective radius of double that. Both warheads weight about 40 pounds.
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