September 7th, 2007  
Supostat
Optio
 
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by victortsoi
My father was in the red navy during the early 70s, and during this time border skirmishes flared up with the chinese all the time. There was a rumour throughout soviet military that they had used some superweapon to obliterate the disputed island of Damansk.
dad doesnt neccesarily believe the story, but im curious as if it has some kernel of truth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-So...order_conflict
As I understood, the `superweapon` was Soviet MLRS `Grad`:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BM-21
 
(c) 2007 Military-Quotes.com