Nebelwerfer or Katyusha?

OK....let us return to the Katiusha and the Neblewerfer. :? Thay said on Discovery once that theese weapons where used in large numbers only to cause fear and not damage. Is it true?

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Finished the production of Dacia? So what country still product it??? China?

Turkey was mass producing Renault 12 in the 90's. Maybe they started this in the 80's, and I don't know if they are still making it.

When I arrived in Diyarbakir, the capital of Turkish Kurdistan, in April 1994, my first thought was: "How many Dacia 1300 we exported in Turkey!" Then I learned that actually were Renault 12 made in Turkey under license.
Other things made in Turkey under license in 1994: Malboro and blue-jeans.

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OK....let us return to the Katiusha and the Neblewerfer. :?  Thay said on Discovery once that theese weapons where used in large numbers only to cause fear and not damage. Is it true?

I'm afraid it's true what they said. Meaning using in a large amount it causes fear and panic mostly. But we don't have to forget also the damage (due to huge number).

It should be noted that the Nebelwerfer killed mostly by suffocating the soldiers, than by the explosive power itself. Its destructive power on hard targets wasn't probably similar to that of the regular artillery, but it could ravage an infantry unit.

I think that the Katiusha and the Nebel-what-ever were the kind of propaganda weapons. The Russian movies always show Katiusha because it stroke fear in it's oponents. The Germans had for example the V1 and V2 roket. Propaganda and morale is very important in a war, it's much easy to kill a demoralisez skiled soldier than a high-morale rokie.

Propaganda like propaganda, but do not forget about effect over an area with massed infantry and meccanized units. Jukov - from first fights against Japan - used massed artillery for super-bombing enemy position. And, about bad precision.. if you have a big weapons concentrantion in km2, who cares about that?
Maybe "fog trowers" are better weapons, because are manufactured in "german way".

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It's true that when there are a lot of imprecise Katyushas that bombard a small area it's hell on earth, but when there are a lot of Katyushas that have bombard a large area the efects are poor.

With respect to Florin's comment about 76mm recoiless rifles: Thanks for posting the link. I did not know that the Soviets had developed one before the beginning of W.W.II.

There is a difference between recoiless rifles and salvo rockets like the Katyusha and Nebelwerfer. Rec. rifles are designed to fire a shell that actually hits a particular target, like a tank or a specific building (or possibly a small area of ground, if firing a high explosive shell), just like any other field gun. Because of their light weight, recoiless rifles were primarily used by airborn and reconnaissance forces (the Germans used a 75mm and a 105mm version, the U.S. had a 57mm (I think), and a 75mm version during W.W.II). Generally, rec. rifles cannot be used for indirect fire (in part because the troops that typically used them could not bring extensive fire-control tools with them), so the gunner must be able to see his target (which would make a 6.5 km maximum range more theoretical than practical).

Salvo rockets are designed to bombard a relativel large area of ground and saturate that area with high explosives, rather than to hit a particular target. They are designed to fire indirectly.

For training, but not for combat.

Let's get back on topic people