Rocket artillery and MLRS · Land · Soviet Union
Wikidata: multiple launch rocket system family of Soviet origin
- Operators among the 24
- 6
- Active, across the 24
- 1,011
- On order, across the 24
- 0
- In service since
- 1963
Catalogue entry
- Designation
- BM-21
- First flight or launch
- –
- In service
- 1963
- Retired
- –
- Generation
- –
- Unit cost (US dollars)
- not published in Wikidata
- Manufacturers
- –
- Also seen as
- Towed artillery
- Wikidata classes
- combat vehicle model, artillery model
- Identifiers
- Q270289 · factbase.org/sys/JQ1Q54Z861 · Wikipedia
Dates, makers and classes from Wikidata (CC0); specifications stop at what Wikipedia and the manufacturer publish.
Operators
Each of the 24 nations that holds the platform, with its active count (variants summed). A nation that holds it with no published count shows no bar.
650
150
107
104
0
0
| Nation | Active | Reserve | On order | Variants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Russia | 650 | |||
| India | 150 | |||
| Iran | 107 | BM-11 | ||
| Ukraine | 104 | BM-21 Tornado-G, APR-40, 9M22 | ||
| Saudi Arabia | held | |||
| North Korea | held | BM-11, M-1977, M-1985 |
Transfers
Deliveries recorded by the SIPRI Arms Transfers Database, by year, to every recipient. Derived figures only; source: SIPRI Arms Transfers Database.
Recipients: Iraq (760), Syria (500), Vietnam (400), Iran (264), Libya (260), North Korea (250), Egypt (245), Poland (228), Bulgaria (225), India (200), Angola (160), Afghanistan (142), Mongolia (130), East Germany (72), North Yemen (70), Hungary (66), Ethiopia (58), South Yemen (54), Sudan (52), Tanzania (50), Zambia (50), Mali (50), Algeria (48), Ukraine (48), Lebanon Palestinian rebels* (40), Morocco (36), Saudi Arabia (36), Nigeria (31), Mozambique (30), Myanmar (26).