Katyushas - The Rocket Launcher Germany Captured But Couldn't Build

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By December 1941, the Red Army had lost 24,000 artillery tubes — nearly three-quarters of everything it started the war with. Conventional guns required precision machining, skilled labor, and weeks per unit. The Katyusha required welders, railroad track, and a truck. The Soviet Union built 10,000 of them. Germany's self-propelled answer numbered 296. A single four-launcher battery delivered 4.35 tons of high explosive in under ten seconds — equivalent to 72 howitzers firing simultaneously. Then it drove away.

Welcome to ‪@ww2.cauldron‬ where we uncover the grit, logistics, and forgotten operations of the Eastern Front. We strip away the mythology to reveal the brutal arithmetic of World War II.

In this video, you'll learn why the Red Army's catastrophic artillery losses in 1941 forced Soviet planners toward rocket systems that any steel workshop could produce, how a failed sideways test-firing on a truck led to the weapon that buried Army Group Center, and why Germany captured intact Katyushas but could never replicate the propellant. From the secret NKVD battery at Orsha in July 1941 to rockets aimed horizontally into Berlin apartment blocks in April 1945 — this is the industrial arithmetic of the Eastern Front's most produced weapon system.

Chapters
▶ 0:00 - The 1941 Artillery Crisis: 24,000 Guns Lost
▶ 2:47 - Origins of the Katyusha Rocket Launcher
▶ 5:12 - Captain Flyorov's Secret Battery at Orsha 1941
▶ 8:30 - Mass Production: 10,000 Launchers vs 296
▶ 12:15 - Battle of Berlin: Katyushas on Rooftops
▶ 14:40 - Final Arithmetic and Cold War Legacy

Topics Covered
Operation Barbarossa and the collapse of Soviet artillery strength in 1941
Soviet factory evacuation to the Urals and wartime industrial mobilization
BM-13 Katyusha rocket launcher design, production, and deployment history
Captain Flyorov's first combat firing at Orsha, July 1941
Katyusha vs Nebelwerfer: comparative production and tactical mobility
Seelow Heights bombardment and the Battle of Berlin 1945
Post-war legacy from the BM-21 Grad to modern multiple rocket launch systems

History is written by the victors. We read the footnotes.

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