122-mm MLRS "Grad"

Directions of modernization

• Installation in the fighting vehicle of automated guidance and fire control system (AGFCS), which provides:
• semi-automatic guidance of FV’s tube cluster without exit of a crew from the cabin (without use of aiming adaptations);
• firing from unprepared position (in survey and geodesic relation) at the expense of autonomous determination of longitudinal axis’s directional corner of a FV’s tube cluster and determination of own coordinates;
• visual representation on the computer’s display of graphic information for guiding of FV’s tube cluster, map of district with the indication of its location, destination and route of movement;
• decrease of time for FV’s readiness from the moment of receiving of target’s coordinates till firing in 2—3 times and, as a consequence of it;
• increase of system’s surviveability at the expense of reduction of staying time at the fighting position;
• decrease of crew up to 3 men.
• Installation in the FV launch preparation equipment (LPE) of new rockets, that provides:
• distance data input to the rocket’s fuse;
• rocket launch.
• Realization of revisions providing an opportunity of new rocket projectiles’ use with the range of fire up to 40 km.
• Replacement of BM −21 chassis with the petrol engine on the chassis with the diesel engine.

• Besides above-stated, the design op-portunities of JSC "Motovilikhinskiye zavody" allow to carry out all complex of the specified works on modernizati-on of MLRS «Grad» and on its foreign analogues «RM 70» (Slovakia), «APRA 40» (Romania) etc.