page_title: BM-21 Grad
section_title: Variants
hierarchical_section_title: BM-21 Grad / Variants
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Музей военной техники, г.Верхняя Пышма - 2012 English: Verkhnyaya Pyshma Tank Museum 2012
context_page_description: The BM-21 "Grad" is a Soviet truck-mounted 122 mm multiple rocket launcher. The weapons system and the M-21OF rocket were first developed in the early 1960s, and saw their first combat use in March 1969 during the Sino-Soviet border conflict.BM stands for boyevaya mashina, and the nickname grad means "hail". The complete system with the BM-21 launch vehicle and the M-21OF rocket is designated as the M-21 field-rocket system. The complete system is more commonly known as a Grad multiple rocket launcher system. In NATO countries the system was initially known as M1964. Several other countries have copied the Grad or have developed similar systems.
caption: BM-21V VDV variant.
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