RES/KIT 48-0229 UB-16-57 KV rocket launcher 4 pcs Mi-2, Mi-4, Mi-8

The UB-16 is a Soviet, and currently Russian, 57mm unguided missile launcher. The presented launcher was designed to carry S-5 missiles and is capable of carrying 16 such missiles. Originally, these missiles were carried by Soviet planes and helicopters in ORO-57 launchers, but in the early 1960s they were replaced by UB-16 launchers. It is also worth adding that several different development versions of this launcher were developed relatively quickly, which made it one of the most widely used launchers of this type in the Soviet armed forces. Among these variants of the launcher we can mention, for example: UB-16-57U, UB-16-57D or UB-16-57UMP (it entered service in 1968 and was one of the most frequently produced variants). Launchers of this type could be carried by many Soviet aircraft, such as the Mi-8, Mi-24, but also MiG-19 or MiG-23. Launchers of this type were used on a large scale during the initial phase of the war in Afghanistan (1979-1989).