🗓 June 27, 1941
#ThisDay the first two combat rocket launchers BM-13, known as the Katyusha, were assembled at the Comintern plant in Voronezh.
On the photo it's a monument "Katyusha" in Rudnya, dedicated to the world's first rocket battery, captain I. A. Flerov.
The name may be associated with a song "Katyusha" (a girl's name) or the "K" index on the mortar body - the installations were produced by the Comintern plant (Komintern in Russian). And the front-line soldiers liked to give nicknames to weapons. For example, the M-30 howitzer was called "Mom", the ML-20 howitzer gun - "Emelka". And BM-13 at first was sometimes called "Raisa Sergeevna", thus deciphering the abbreviation RS - reactive snaryad (rocket).
The song "Karyusha" is very popular even in other countries. Here are Chinese military girls singing it during the parade 😁🔥👉
https://youtu.be/MJGe2Dujm7s
#ThisDay the first two combat rocket launchers BM-13, known as the Katyusha, were assembled at the Comintern plant in Voronezh.
On the photo it's a monument "Katyusha" in Rudnya, dedicated to the world's first rocket battery, captain I. A. Flerov.
The name may be associated with a song "Katyusha" (a girl's name) or the "K" index on the mortar body - the installations were produced by the Comintern plant (Komintern in Russian). And the front-line soldiers liked to give nicknames to weapons. For example, the M-30 howitzer was called "Mom", the ML-20 howitzer gun - "Emelka". And BM-13 at first was sometimes called "Raisa Sergeevna", thus deciphering the abbreviation RS - reactive snaryad (rocket).
The song "Karyusha" is very popular even in other countries. Here are Chinese military girls singing it during the parade 😁🔥👉
https://youtu.be/MJGe2Dujm7s