Besides their ordinary firing tasks on the elimination of enemy targets, Ukrainian artillery systems are used as a tool to minimize casualties during the counter-offensive. Renowned and simple is the so-called "shelling with leaflets" containing the information for the enemy soldiers on how to lay their weapons safely.
Journalists of the Ukrainian Military TV showed how this kind of job is done with the help of Czech RM-70 Vampir multiple rocket launchers.
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Every rocket contains 1,500 leaflets with instructions for the enemy. A rocket is set to explode mid-air, over the designated place, with the help of a time fuze. This way, the leaflets spread over the maximum area possible, an artilleryman said to journalists.
Despite the RM-70 having an automatic reload system, the soldiers load the rockets manually, because such a volley consists only of a few rockets.
So why does one of the newest MLRS of the Ukrainian Army used that way? This kind of job is mostly done as part of the counter-offensive campaign, which indirectly implies those are used in the most important operational directions, while the quite obsolete but still capable analog BM-21 Grad MLRS are possibly used in secondary axes of Ukrainian military actions.
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