This is a picture of the Soviet-made BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launching system. According to Human Rights Watch, forces loyal to Col. Moammar Gadhafi are using this thing to fire rockets into Misrata, including one recent attack that killed eight people waiting in line for bread.
It’s deadly. It can launch 40 122-millimeter rockets. It can also shoot widely banned cluster munitions that scatter randomly, and the duds sit around waiting for kids to pick them up.
Human Rights Watch calls it “one of the world’s most inaccurate rocket systems” that should never be fired into civilian areas, like Misrata.
