Pampero (multiple rocket launcher)
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The SLAM (Sistema Lanzacohetes de Artillería Múltiple, or Multiple Rocket Launcher System) "Pampero" is an Argentinian multiple rocket launcher (a type of rocket artillery) from the Cold War and modern eras.
Development
The SLAM "Pampero" MRL was developed by CITEFA in 1980–1983, and was subsequently manufactured during the early 1980s, by the DGFM “Fabrica Militar Fray Luis Beltran” in Rosario, Argentina. It is composed by a 16-tube launcher mounted on an Unimog 416 4x4 truck. The ammunition consists of 105mm "Pampero" artillery rockets, also developed by CITEFA, which can be armed with a variety of warheads. A total of five "Pampero" launchers on UNIMOG 416 chassis were built for the Argentine Army in 1983 (one of them the prototype and the others four for actual use).{{Cite book|title=El Unimog en el Ejército Argentino|last=García Loperena|first=Gastón Javier|publisher=1884 Editorial|year=2015|isbn=9789509822993|location=Buenos Aires|pages=232}}
Service history
The self-propelled variant is currently{{when|date=October 2016}} in service with the Argentine Army artillery branch.
Production progressed{{when|date=October 2016}} to the CP-30 MRL, which is able to use either the 105mm rockets from the Pampero or the new 127mm rockets, also called CP-30. This MRL is mounted in IVECO Trakker 6x4 trucks,{{Cite web|url=https://www.zona-militar.com/foros/threads/la-larga-marcha-del-cp-30.1714/page-46|title=La Larga Marcha del CP-30|date=9 August 2006 }} in a similar way to the soviet Katyushas.
Variants
- Surface-Surface: self-propelled 16-tube MRL, mounted on top of a Mercedes-Benz Unimog 416 chassis.
- Air-Surface: 4 or 6-tube "Yaguareté" pod. 6-tube pod "Microbio".
Specifications
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- Caliber: {{convert|105|mm|in}}
- Length: {{convert|1530|mm|ft}}
- Motor: Solid-fuel rocket
- Weight: {{convert|30|kg|lb}}
- Maximum range: {{convert|10200|m|mi}}
- Dispersion: 68% of projectiles within an area of 300 m by 200 m
- Warhead:
- Types: Rocket Types: HE, HE-I (HE-Incendiary), Inert (for training).
- Weight: {{convert|10.5|kg|lb}}
(NOTE: some specifications differ slightly from source to source)
=Launcher=
- Entered service: 1980s (Argentine Army)
- First used in action: ?
- Chassis: Mercedes-Benz Unimog 416 4x4 truck
- Crew: ?
- Weight loaded: 6110 kg
- Length: ? m (? Ft ?? in)
- Width: ? m
- Height (stowed): ? m
- Height (max elevation): ? m
- Max road speed: ? km/h
- Cruise range: ? km
- Engine: ?
- Transmission: ?
- Number of tubes: 16
- Launch Rate: 16 rockets in 7.5 seconds
- Reload time: 10 minutes
- Loader Type: Manual
- Launcher Drive: Electric
- Launcher Traverse: 90°
- Launcher Elevation: 0 to +52°
- Average unit cost: ?
Users
- {{flagicon|Argentina}} Argentine Army
See also
References
= Notes =
{{reflist}}
= Sources =
- {{cite book
| last = Foss
| first = Christopher F.
| title = Jane's Armour & Artillery, 2004-2005
| publisher = Jane's Information Group
|date=July 2004|edition=25th
| isbn = 0-7106-2616-9
}}
Further reading
- {{cite book
|url = http://www.tematika.com/libros/derecho_y_ciencias_sociales--4/historia--3/historia_argentina--1/el_unimog_en_el_ejercito_argentino--619605.htm
|title = El Unimog en el Ejercito Argentino
|last = Garcia Loperena
|first = Gaston Javier
|publisher = 1884 Editorial
|year = 2015
|isbn = 9789509822993
|edition = 1st
|location = Buenos Aires
|language = es
|access-date = 2016-10-27
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170122075450/http://www.tematika.com/libros/derecho_y_ciencias_sociales--4/historia--3/historia_argentina--1/el_unimog_en_el_ejercito_argentino--619605.htm
|archive-date = 2017-01-22
|url-status = dead
}}
External links
- {{in lang|es}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20071113160210/http://www.artilleria.ejercito.mil.ar/quees/ac/subsistema01.htm Official Argentine Army website - Artillery Branch, field artillery equipment webpage] (specifications and picture).
- {{in lang|es}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20080915105738/http://www.gruartitres.ejercito.mil.ar/Slam_Pampero.html Official website of the Argentine Army 3rd Artillery Group] (page with picture and basic specifications)
- [http://www.citefa.gov.ar/index_eng.php?IdSec=164&IdMenu=2 Official CITEFA website]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} (Air-Surface version pictures with some specifications)
- [http://www.jedsite.info/artillery-papa/papa/pampero_series/pampero-series.html Unofficial website] (providing Description, Pictures and Specifications)
- {{in lang|es}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20090206103848/http://saorbats.com.ar/EA_orbat.htm Unofficial website] (with organization and equipment of the Argentine Army, including details on the “Pampero”)
- [http://www.fuerzasargentinas.com/WeaponsEquipment/Pampero.htm Unofficial website]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} (providing Specifications, with some differences)
- {{in lang|es}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20161027060808/http://www.fm.gob.ar/?p=598wec Description and specifications, Fabricaciones Militares website] (accessed 2016-10-27)
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Category:Self-propelled artillery of Argentina