Not an MLRS system we hear much about. Capable of quite close clusters.
For all the talk about MRLS and HIMARS it is Uragan that is closest in size and design, but it is based on a lighter cheaper wheeled chassis, carries more ready to fire rockets on each launcher (16 vs 12 and 6 respectively), and has better range and performance at a much much lower cost.
Uragan is 220mm and the US missile is 227mm so the size is very similar.
Not necessarily . A sidearm designed to fire shotgun shell , like a pepperbox pistol design , can be easily and quickly made , without the need for much machining or tooling . Especially if the firing is electrical . Off the shelf tubing , shotgun shells , capacitors , battery and Nichrome wire ! Should cost with shells 20 Dollars . Range of 10 to 15 meters , good enough against Drones . Every trooper can carry as a sidearm .
Perhaps you are not familiar with shotguns... would they bother with 400mm plus length barrels and much longer if a pistol length barrel will do?
The US used the Masterkey with a very short barrel but it was used to blow door locks so it was used at point blank ranges with solid slug shells that delivered a large lump of lead directly into the door to shatter it where the lock is located. Against a human target at 20m such a short barrel would make it useless with the sort of buckshot loads you would need to effectively injure or kill someone.
A pistol length barrel would be useless as shown by the devices that were fitted to 40mm underbarrel grenade launchers... the barrels were not pistol length.
They could have been if that would be effective but it wouldn't.
Firing a solid slug against a small manouvering target... you would be better off firing a rifle bullet that shoots flatter.
It's strange that Russia didn't really want Donbas until 2022. They have huge amounts of raw materials, but never too many. And the West would get its hands on it.
Not strange at all. Russia is interested in the people. The west is interested in the value of the land the people live on. Their anti Russia BS was a way of claiming the people living on the land they wanted are Russian and can be removed/deported because they are Russian spies/agents.
Russia isn't stealing Ukrainian land, Ukraine is turning East Ukrainians into Russians and therefore the land they live on to Russian land.
Like I said, mining is so expensive that it makes no one rich except the oligarcs owning the companies.
Senator cocksucker graham stated openly of 12 trillion dollars worth of resources in the Ukraine that the west is fighting not just to take for themselves but also trying to deny said resources to Russia and China.
Why import it, if you can dump a whole country, buy it out cheaply, and exploit?
Their middle east policy in practise in Europe.... start a war and destroy a country like Iraq or Libya or Syria and either in the chaos steal the oil, or let them recover and they will pump oil to rebuild. Obviously getting the oil contracts yourself is the goal but letting anyone else pump the oil keeps the price down as they pump oil to earn money to rebuild their broken country. With Iraq and likely what they were hoping in the Ukraine they remain present so they can earn their own money rebuilding ripping off the damn natives with substandard work all the while blaming Russia or Iran or ISIS or anyone else for the problems there.