Trumpeter 01020 1/35 Russian 9A52-2 Smerch-M multiple rocket launcher with RSZO 9k58 MRLS

The BM-30 Smerch or 9A52-2 Smerch-M is a Soviet heavy multiple rocket launcher. The system is designed to defeat personnel, armored, and soft-skinned targets in concentration areas, artillery batteries, command posts and ammunition depots. It was created in the early 1980s and entered service in the Soviet Army in 1989. When first observed by the West in 1983, it received the code MRL 280mm M1983.