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MLRS in Desert Storm

In the days immediately prior to the ground assault of Desert Storm, artillery was tasked to execute artillery raids on Iraqi positions in Kuwait and southern Iraq, both for the benefit of pounding Iraqi positions, and as a carefully crafted scheme to deceive the Iraqis as to where the main allied effort would come. 1.…

In the days immediately prior to the ground assault of Desert Storm, artillery was tasked to execute artillery raids on Iraqi positions in Kuwait and southern Iraq, both for the benefit of pounding Iraqi positions, and as a carefully crafted scheme to deceive the Iraqis as to where the main allied effort would come.

1. 9 launcher, 12 rockets each, 644 bomblets in each rocket: 69,552 warheads on foreheads.

2. It’s amazing to look back and see just how much personal equipment has changed since then. Every single piece of the uniform has been changed or updated since then.

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  1. SFC Dunlap 173d RVN

    MLRS, another term for a hyper accurate Nebelwerfer, or Katyusha. I like the MLRS…a lot!

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  2. Casey Tompkins

    Yeah, but it’s a lot more accurate than the Katyushas. I bet a Red arty officer would have given his left nut to use something like this on the Nazis.

    I recall a history of the Gulf War; reportedly the Iraqis learned that if they saw/heard a couple of small “pops,” they had to get under cover fast, or they’d be dead.

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  3. Buck Buchanan

    I love the way everyone is standing around outside the antenna farm watching with cameras out.

    And you just KNOW someone inside one fo the launchers is screaming “GET SOME!!!!”

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  4. diogenesofnj

    The Israelis have MLRS. I would employ MLRS as counter battery fire in the Gaza. If the Palestinians employ rocket fire, MLRS could be used to demonstrate the proper way to use rockets.

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