N.B There are a couple decent-ish references e.g. [1] for Soviet origin of the 107mm rocket systems on Google. So, in western military literature at least, BM-12 exists.
Big question though: did the Soviets make it or just import/deploy/trade it? They may have been using only Chinese-manufactured examples in Afghanistan. There is no Russian article and nothing besides old NATO-centric/western references. I suspect a hallucination in these sources.
In particular..(!) [2] Jane's somewhat though not entirely contradicts the Achmed/Grau/Kelly etc. provenance for the BM-12, saying Type 63 was developed by the Chinese... possible from a 102mm system used in the Korean war. 102mm is 4 inch. There is another googled reference that correlates with Janes, [3] unfortunately again a bit weak, says the 102mm rocket was very similar to the 107mm.
Existence or not of the BM-12 or its provenance needs to be cleared up. I can't find much about the 102mm rocket anywhere either would like to see it.
Notes:
Corella ( talk) 08:26, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
Edited again to underline the negative on this article, added source request to main article, IMHO article is now a candidate for deletion, added appropriate headline source and delete notifier Corella ( talk) 10:41, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
N.B There are a couple decent-ish references e.g. [1] for Soviet origin of the 107mm rocket systems on Google. So, in western military literature at least, BM-12 exists.
Big question though: did the Soviets make it or just import/deploy/trade it? They may have been using only Chinese-manufactured examples in Afghanistan. There is no Russian article and nothing besides old NATO-centric/western references. I suspect a hallucination in these sources.
In particular..(!) [2] Jane's somewhat though not entirely contradicts the Achmed/Grau/Kelly etc. provenance for the BM-12, saying Type 63 was developed by the Chinese... possible from a 102mm system used in the Korean war. 102mm is 4 inch. There is another googled reference that correlates with Janes, [3] unfortunately again a bit weak, says the 102mm rocket was very similar to the 107mm.
Existence or not of the BM-12 or its provenance needs to be cleared up. I can't find much about the 102mm rocket anywhere either would like to see it.
Notes:
Corella ( talk) 08:26, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
Edited again to underline the negative on this article, added source request to main article, IMHO article is now a candidate for deletion, added appropriate headline source and delete notifier Corella ( talk) 10:41, 6 June 2013 (UTC)