Reply #27: Who the hell fires three BM-21 rockets? [View All]

[jmowreader]

The BM-21 (I refuse to call it Katyusha--that was the BM-13. The Soviets called the BM-21 Grad, which means "hail" as in the weather type.) is designed to take out an area 300 x 200 meters in one volley.

If you're trying to kill something with a BM-21, you fire a whole rack of rockets--40 in all. If all you're trying to do is piss someone off, three might work.

'Course, there is always the strange notion that Incurious George could only get three BM-21 rockets to use in his fake attack.