On June 8, 2022, according to a video posted on the Twitter account " Ukraine Weapons Tracking", it can be confirmed that Ukraine has put its new Tempest (Bureviy) 220mm multiple rocket launcher (multiple rocket launcher system) into use against Russia Army combat. You must know that on December 27, 2021, before the war, its manufacturer, the Ukrainian Shepetivka Repair Plant (Shepetivka Repair Plant), had just received the first batch of Tatra 815-7 8x8 chassis with armored cabs from the Czech Republic. , and it was put into actual combat in June. During this period, it also experienced continuous attacks by the Russian army. Ukrainians still maintained a certain production capacity, which is already rare.
In this Russia-Ukraine war, both armies invested a large number of BM27 hurricane rocket launchers for long-range strikes, which were the backbone of their rocket launcher equipment. This type of rocket launcher is 9.7 meters long, 2.8 meters wide, and 3.2 meters high (in marching state). The artillery has a total weight of 22.75 tons and a crew of 6. It uses a Gil 135 (8×8) 10-ton truck chassis and is equipped with a 132kW engine. The maximum driving speed is 65 kilometers per hour, the maximum range is 500 kilometers, and the maximum climbing angle is 57 degrees. The 16 tubes of the 220mm rocket director are arranged in 3 rows, 4 in the upper row, 6 in the middle and lower rows, the launch tube is 5 meters long, the maximum rate of fire is 16 rounds/16 seconds, the high and low shooting range is 15-55 degrees, and the direction shooting range 240 degrees, the salvo loading time is 15-20 minutes, the bomb weight is 360 kilograms, and it is equipped with explosive blasting anti-personnel rockets , chemical rockets, anti-personnel incendiary rockets, and mine-laying rockets. The maximum range is 40 kilometers. Since both armies inherited a large amount of legacy equipment from the Soviet Union, they participated in the entire war, and their volleys can often be seen in videos or pictures. However, the BM-27 is old equipment after all, and its chassis has been discontinued long ago. Its maneuverability and fire control capabilities are insufficient, and it is in urgent need of upgrades. Therefore, Russia developed the Hurricane-1M artillery rocket and replaced it with the MZKT-7930 heavy-duty high-mobility chassis and new ammunition with a range of 70 kilometers. The Hurricane-M of Belarus has been replaced with a MAZ-6317 military truck chassis.
Ukraine, on the other hand, first repaired and refurbished the Hurricane rocket launcher at the Shepetivka maintenance plant, accumulated a certain amount of experience, and then began to study the upgrade plan. In 2010, Ukraine developed Bastion-03, replacing the launcher on a KrAZ-6322 three-axle truck and installing a new fire control device, but it was terminated after only one prototype was built. On November 20, 2020, the Shepetiv repair shop and the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense conducted a launch test on the Burevij rocket launcher, switching to the T815-7T3RC18×8 chassis. At that time, its cab was still a regular version and its appearance was relatively square. In the latest video, it has been replaced with an armored cab, making it even more powerful.
Burevij rocket launcher adopts the Tatra T815-7T3RC18×8 all-wheel drive off-road chassis of the Czech Excalibur Arms Company. Its two-door armored cab has 5 seats and complies with STANAG4569 protection level 3A/3B. It can protect light weapons shooting and a certain equivalent The landmine looks very fashionable. The chassis is 10.72 meters long, 2.55 meters wide, 3.23 meters high, 0.4 meters ground clearance, and can be temporarily raised/lowered (+90/-125 mm). The curb weight is 16.8 tons, the payload is 21.2 tons, and the total vehicle weight is 38 Ton. Install a 300kW Tatra T3C-928.90 turbocharged air-cooled direct injection diesel engine and a central tire inflation and deflation system. The maximum speed is 105 km/h, and the electronic speed limiter is limited to 85 km/h. It can climb 0.6 meters of vertical steps, cross 2.1 meters of trenches, has a wading capacity of 1.5 meters, has a cruising range of 700 kilometers, and the working environment temperature is - 32 to +49°C. The performance of this chassis is one level higher than the previous Gill chassis, and the price is also doubled.
Compared with the completely reborn chassis, its rocket launcher remains the same, but has been refurbished. The 16 directional tubes are arranged in 3 rows, 4 in the upper row, and 6 in the middle and lower rows.All original ammunition can still be fired. The 9M27 series of ammunition includes 9M27K with 30 rounds of 9N210 fragmentation submunitions, 9M27K1 with 30 rounds of 9N235 fragmentation submunitions, 9M27K2 with 24 rounds of PTM-1 anti-tank mines, and 9M27K2 with 24 rounds of PTM-1 anti-tank mines. 9M27K3 with 312 PFM anti-personnel mines, 9M27F with high-explosive fragmentation warhead, 9M27S with incendiary warhead, 9M51 rocket with 9 PTM-3 anti-tank mines or 9N515 fuel-air warhead or 9N524 sub The mother warhead has a wide variety of ammunition. Taking 9M27K as an example, the projectile is 5.178 meters long, weighs 270 kilograms, has a warhead of 90 kilograms, has a range of 10-35 kilometers, contains 30 rounds of 9N210 submunitions, weighs 1.8 kilograms of submunitions, contains 0.3 kilograms of explosives and 370 to 400 2-gram bombs. Prefabricated fragments, self-destruction time 110 seconds. Ukraine also claimed that it had developed a Typhoon-2 rocket with a range of 65 kilometers, but it has not seen a real one until now. Instead, it was a 122mm 9M221F Typhoon-1 rocket that had been fired before.
Tempest 220mm multiple rocket launcher is equipped with a digital fire control system, integrated navigation and geodesic system, automatic guidance control system, day and night surveillance and orientation system, which can automatically level and define the current roll angle and chassis pitch angle values to ensure stable shooting. It is equipped with a new information communication system that can exchange voice and code information in a specific radio network and a single radio channel, conduct information exchange within 20 kilometers, and can also use data from reconnaissance vehicles and drones for real-time strikes. . When there is target information and geodesic information, the vehicle's marching and combat conversion time is less than 2 minutes, the automatic salvo has a constant rate of 8.8 seconds, a variable rate of 20 seconds, and the salvo coverage area is 326,000 square meters. It can be fired from the cab for remote control.
In terms of firepower upgrade, the Tempest Rocket Launcher seems to lack sincerity. After all, today, when modularization has become popular, the combat capabilities of Tempest, which is still using old launchers, will be greatly limited. During the test, Tempest still relied on the old 9T452 loading vehicle to load ammunition one round at a time, which took a long time. At the same time, old-fashioned launchers do not have the ability to use multi-caliber ammunition. They are limited by the insufficient performance of old ammunition, the lack of precision-guided munitions, and the lack of various vehicles and drones with advanced reconnaissance capabilities, making them more advanced. The fire control system is also difficult to perform. Coupled with the relatively small number (only 16 chassis), it is really difficult to expect it to play a big role in the war.
