Safe, mobile, reliable, and simple to use – that’s what the Ukrainian military say about the Ukrainian-made "Burevii" multiple rocket launching system, showing rare footage of this system in action on the frontline. Ukrainian Military TV spoke to the artillerymen operating this system.
Burevii is a Ukrainian approach to modernization of the Soviet "Uragan" system. And despite similar looks, the system became almost an entirely new weapon. We won’t go into detail comparing Burevii and Uragan, because we already covered the difference before.
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This time, we have an insight from the Ukrainian soldiers directly involved in hostilities and using the Burevii against russian occupation army in Ukraine.
According to the soldier nicknamed "Omega", everyone in the crew is a universal operator:
"Everyone is interchangeable, every person knows the job of his comrade and do the work in his place. It comes with experience."
This principle allows to maximize the efficiency of the entire deploy-and-fire circle. For better accuracy, the system has stabilizers to keep it in place, which take additional time to unfold.
However, the military say, this time is compensated by quick targeting and firing of the launcher, thanks to modern digital systems in the cabin. As soon as the task is completed, Burevii leaves the position before it gets under enemy backfire.
And here’s another detail to note. As a reminder, this MLRS does not have an automatic reloading system, like in HIMARS. The reloading of rockets is made manually one by one, and a special loader-transport vehicle for the rockets. And in the following video from RL/RFE a serviceman of artillery forces tells how the process is organized (subtitles available):
"The ammunition is got transported into location A, then this ammunition gets to point B where the transport vehicle and the combat vehicle meet. They reload there, and move to location C, the so-called 'waiting area'."
The Burevii systems are scattered waiting for another task to come. And when it does, they gather in a destined spot to launch a strike. They also always change their firing positions, because the enemy is on watch trying to detect such a valuable target as MLRS.
Both in this and the previous videos, the drivers praise the all-terrain capability provided by the Czech Tatra T815-7 chassis and the simplicity of operation. The operator does not even need to leave the armored cabin to aim at the target.
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