Firos 25/30 MLRS

[Nicholas_Concu 2,634]

General Info
The story of this unique vehicle, known as the FIROS 25/30 began during the cold war. Italy was gradually becoming more self reliant on its military, due to some laws that prevented such being slowly removed. Eventually many new and old companies began to work on military equipment, in the hopes they'd be picked up by the Italian armed forces or exported elsewhere. One of those companies, known as BPD (Bombrini Parodi Delfino), would be one of the leading national effort in rocket propulsion devices, which would in turn also lead them to working on the military field. One of their many creations was the FIROS (field rocket system) family which was a set of Italian-made Multi-Launch Rocket systems. The FIROS family would originally developed to allow Italy, and the west to have something compareable to the USSR's rocket launch systems due to the Soviet Union being overwhelmingly equipped with them. BPD would eventually come up with several designs, one of them being the FIROS 25/30 which would be mounted on a few military trucks and have some small export success around the world. The FIROS 25/30 was mounted on an Italian made Iveco 6x6 truck, alongside it for demonstration and evalutation purposes the FIROS 25/30 system was also installed on a Magirus-Deltz 6x6 truck.. Other systems which Italy mounted the FIROS 25/30 on would be the FIAT ACP 90 and FIAT ACP 70. The main purpose of the system being mounted and trialed on several Italian trucks would've mainly be done as it would have encouraged the purchase of the system as it would mean that several vehicles they had in service could quickly be converted into an MLRS platform in times of need. In the grand scheme of things, this would've seriously meant trouble for the opposing forces as having such a system in high numbers could've shifted the tide of the cold war quite a bit, not only was it relatively cheap system, but it could be mounted on pretty much anything due to it being lightweight and modular. In terms of speed, it depends on what truck it would be mounted on. Speed would've likely been similar to the base trucks, just a little bit slower due to the system being mounted. In terms of survivability, most of the trucks it was mounted on, such as the Iveco 6x6 truck could withstand small arms fire but anything other than that would've likely rendered the vehicle out of action. Do keep in mind that this was an MLRS platform so it wasn't exactly meant to be used on the front lines. In terms of the system itself, the FIROS 25 would be able to utilize many different types of warheads, some of them including but not limited to HEI incendiary and HE-FRAG rockets. The overall range for the system would be around 25 or 27km, the launcher was able to be fully traversed at 360 degrees. The rockets would be 122mm in length and could hold up to 20 rockets in each launcher cell, being able to carry a maximum of 40 rockets. What made the FIROS family so good is that it was paired up with a mobile platform, which meant that the vehicle also could be used for quick attacks or counterattacks to enemy forces. It usually had a crew of 2, but would sometimes require a third member to speed up the reload of the machine, which according to some sources would've been 5 minutes max if a special reloader vehicle was present. Testing of the FIROS family kept going, and as it would begin to be presented on even more vehicles, this began to peak the interest of some potential export customers. One of the users of the FIROS 25/30 would be the UAE, which would buy some systems for their army, they'd mount the system on a mercades benz truck. however there's little to no documentation on that. In the end, the prototypes that was presented to the Italian army would not generate enough interest to warrant any sort of purchase order. BPD eventually moved on and would shift its focus more on the the making of munitions. It seems as if one of the Iveco 6x6 platforms which mounted the FIROS 25/30 still exists at the bunker of monte sorrate.

Armament+equipment
HE-FRAG rockets
Cluster munition rockets
Smoke munition rockets
HEI Incendiary rockets
Training-practice rockets
White Phosphorus rockets

Specifications

Spoiler

Why it should be in game
I believe this should be in game as this is a great piece of Italian technology that would currently allow Italy to benefit from having more rocket vehicles which not only its lacking but atm the current ones are more that obsolete in terms of gameplay. This vehicle would play similar to other MLRS's already in game, its well armoured and well armed, depending on what tier gaijin will put it if it gets added, it has great potential to be a fun vehicle that a lot of players will want to get their hands on. The armament allow it to be versatile and hopefully fit in the meta quite nicely. Overall it might take a lot of work to implement but the payoff will be worth it.
Sources
FIROS 25 Brochure
Armies and weapons 44
Jane's armor and Artillery
IDR 2/1989
https://issuu.com/rivista.militare1/docs/consultivo_1988-testo_a9acc25f61b19c/70
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firos_(artillery)
http://www.military-today.com/artillery/firos.htm
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIROS
https://www.forecastinternational.com/archive/disp_pdf.cfm?DACH_RECNO=355
https://web.archive.org/web/20120924010859/http://articles.janes.com/articles/Janes-Ammunition-Handbook/122-mm-Firos-25-30-rockets-Italy.html
http://factmil.com/stuff/armija/rszo/firos_30/97-1-0-316
https://issuu.com/rivista.militare1/docs/1-1998-rmi-testo
Pictures

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Edited May 21, 2022 by Nicholas_Concu

[leroyonly 4,311]

Open for discussion. 

[Nicholas_Concu 2,634]

1 minute ago, leroyonly said:

Open for discussion. 

Thanks!

[Охраняет-Камни 6,650]

Axaxa

Yes

[Milocat 4,857]

+1, this would be good as the premium MLRS for Italy.

[_Pixy 196]

+1 hell yeah

[onemax9000 1,243]

+1 looks cool 

[Nicholas_Concu 2,634]

New source, new picture.

[magazine2 7,957]

Yes, why not? Voted Yes and Premium.

[tteoteo 37]

in a 2x2km of map?¿ lol this should be a joke. 
And after, all people complain about ka50. Imagine this thing shooting to a respawn plenty of players defending the last tickets of the team. Imagine the people that are going to quit after the first death... 
Nice way to improve the user experience. 

Edited February 8, 2020 by tteoteo

[Nicholas_Concu 2,634]

18 minutes ago, tteoteo said:

in a 2x2km of map?¿ lol this should be a joke. 
And after, all people complain about ka50. Imagine this thing shooting to a respawn plenty of players defending the last tickets of the team. Imagine the people that are going to quit after the first death... 
Nice way to improve the user experience. 

realistically speaking wouldn't happen, plus we already have MLRS's inside of the game so.

[tteoteo 37]

40 minutes ago, Nicholas_Concu said:

realistically speaking wouldn't happen, plus we already have MLRS's inside of the game so.

continue continue requesting those types of stuff... 

[Nicholas_Concu 2,634]

6 minutes ago, tteoteo said:

continue continue requesting those types of stuff... 

I WILL

[Dr_Pavel 3,961]

4 hours ago, tteoteo said:

in a 2x2km of map?¿ lol this should be a joke. 
And after, all people complain about ka50. Imagine this thing shooting to a respawn plenty of players defending the last tickets of the team. Imagine the people that are going to quit after the first death... 
Nice way to improve the user experience. 

 

How would this be any different from the Calliope, Panzerwerfer, Type 75, etc we already have in game?

[Ruthless95 1,177]

out of all rocket carrying vehicles suggested, this looks the most bada** and the most convincing

[Conte_Baracca 4,547]

I wanna rocket spam. Gib.

[Mich3le03 12]

+1 i need this to go at school 

[ironcell26 252]

Japan has the type 84, Russian have the katiusha, Germans the nebelwerfer, Americans the calliope, brits the Cromwell, we need this or other firos platforms,French need a bidet first

[Nicholas_Concu 2,634]

Updated with more Info

[Captain_Razor 6]

+1 Thank you!

[RytisLTU1 2,585]

Why not +1

[raptor2-40delta@psn 145]

+1 we have so many Firos variants that could be added that there can be both a premium and a TT version.. plus it’s a unique vehicle which is kinda the Italian style so this should defo be added

[TerraStalker 158]

+1 Italy needs rockets too

[Nicholas_Concu 2,634]

8 hours ago, TerraStalker said:

+1 Italy needs rockets too

Thank you so much for the support!

[WreckingAres283 4,262]

+1 We need more MLRS in game (especially non-premium ones LOL)