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Katyusha

Soviet free-flight rocket of World War II. It was fired from racks mounted in a heavy truck and had a range of about 5 km/3 mi. Each truck had 48 launcher racks and a battalion could lay down an immense rapid-fire barrage.

The rocket was 1.8 m/5.9 ft long and 130 mm/5.1 in diameter and weighed 42 kg/92 lb complete with a 22 kg/48 lb explosive warhead.



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Insurgents in Iraq have used a range of Soviet-era rockets like Katyushas, and shoulder-fired ground-to-air SAM-7 missiles - mostly looted from Saddam's massive depots in the lawless days and weeks after the collapse of his regime.
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We attacked the Katyushas, but unsuccessfully", Halutz said.
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While we are on the topic, did the same attentive analysts who counted and broadcast to the world the exact number of Katyushas hitting Israel every day also count and broadcast the exact number of explosive items dropped daily by Israel on Lebanon?
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