Urozhaine is a dangerous place for a partially pretend combat unit. But it presents Cascade an opportunity to fire short-range rockets and post videos of the blast.
Five years ago pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast crafted a pair of crude rocket-launchers and, with great fanfare,Now at least one of the do-it-yourself launchers is in action, reportedly in the vicinity of Urozhaine in southern Donetsk Oblast. It probably is no coincidence there’s a unit from the separatist Donetsk People’s Republic on the battlefield near Urozhaine: the weirdo reconnaissance group “Cascade.
The DPR paraded two very different launchers in Donetsk on May 9, 2018. One was a dual set of 32-round 214-millimeter rocket launchers on a KrAZ six-by-six truck chassis. The other, a pair of huge 324-millimeter rockets also on a KrAZ chassis.Snezhinka , or “snowflake.” Both launchers reportedly have a six-mile range, which is startlingly short—especially for a rocket the size of the 324-millimeter Snowflake. Even the oldest M26 model of the U.S. Army’s own 227-millimeter rocket ranges as far as 20 miles., can be forgiven for a lack of sophistication and capacity. It’s not even clear the company could produce more than one copy of each launcher.made a second appearance a year ago last fall.
Whether the rockets actually hit anything of value—well, that may not be Cascade’s top priority. Even on a sector of the front where the Russians and their allies are in actual peril.
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