TAAS - Israel Industries Ltd 160 mm LAR-160 Multiple Rocket Launcher System (Israel), MULTIPLE ROCKET LAUNCHERS


Description The Light Artillery Rocket System consists of a tracked or wheeled all-terrain vehicle or trailer on which is mounted a multiple rocket launcher. There are two factory sealed, expendable launch pod containers with fuzed 160 mm diameter rockets in their launch tubes, loaded on the launcher. The pods, which also serve as storage and transportation containers for the rockets, can be rapidly replaced in the field after the rockets have been fired. When the rockets are fired they burst frangible covers over the forward and aft ends of the launch tubes. The Mk I system was deployed on AMX-13 light tank chassis by the Venezuelan Army. The Mk II system is currently in production for another country, and next generation upgrades are in development for the Israel Defense Forces. The rockets are 160 mm in diameter and 3.314 m long, employing composite solid propellants. Wraparound stabilising fins deploy when the rocket exits the launcher. The Mk I version of the LAR-160 rocket, weighing 100 kg, carries a 40 kg HE-COFRAM warhead activated by a super-quick impact fuze or proximity fuze. Maximum effective range is 30 km. Its launch pod containers hold 18 rockets each, with two pods on the launcher. The current production Mk II rocket version weighs 110 kg. Its 46 kg warhead can be an HE-COFRAM type or a cluster warhead containing 104 CL-3022S AP/AM submunitions. A remotely set electronic time fuze opens the canister at the appropriate height to give area coverage of about 31,400 m2 for each cluster warhead. Thirteen rockets are loaded in each launch pod container. Maximum range is 34 km. The minimum range of 12 km and intermediate


VARIANTS: The LAR-160 launcher is not restricted to firing 160 mm rockets. Any launch pod container with a suitable interface can be mounted on the launcher. TAAS - Israel Industries Ltd has completed development of an 80 km range, 350 mm diameter artillery rocket. Two of these rockets will be loaded in a launch pod. The pods are fully interchangeable with pods containing 160 mm rockets, so a commander has a wide range of options without having to field completely separate systems. As new types of submunitions and mines are developed they are being incorporated into submunition warheads. Details of the 160 mm and 350 mm rockets on a modified TAM chassis are given under Argentina earlier in this section.

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Publication Title Jane's Armour and Artillery
Publication date Dec 11, 1995
Section MULTIPLE ROCKET LAUNCHERS
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