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YEREVAN, APRIL 30, ARMENPRESS. The Armenian Armed Forces have carried out live fire (LFX) military exercises involving Smerch multiple rocket launchers, Artsrun Hovhannisyan – spokesperson for the Armenian defense minister said on Facebook.
A special coverage on the exercises will air May 5 on the Military program on Public TV.
Smerch is a heavy multiple rocket launcher intended to defeat personnel, armored, andsoft targetsin concentration areas, artillery batteries, command posts andammunition depots.
The system uses various rocket projectiles - Cluster munitions, anti-personnel /Cluster munitions, self-guided anti-tank/ Cluster munitions,AT minelets/, HEAT/HE-Fragmentation/ separable HE-Fragmentation/ Thermobaric/ HE-Fragmentation.
Armenia acquired the systems from Russia.
English –translator/editor: Stepan Kocharyan