The record What this system is, where it comes from, who operates it and which of Vigil’s modules it is relevant to — with the evidence each of those rests on.
Record
Conflict relevance
This is the catalogue's single record for this system. It is relevant to the module below; each module's Force Atlas shows how it is used there.
Operators
Armenia: Ordered in 2022 with the Akash systems and anti-tank munitions in the first Indian arms package; deliveries reported from 2023. Neither government has published the delivered quantity.
Battlefield role
Area fires and counter-battery at ranges the tube artillery cannot reach.
Strengths
A modern salvo system from a supplier with no political conditions on the Armenian side, and the first step in rebuilding the deep-fires gap the 2020 assessments named.
Limitations
A system whose delivered quantity and integration are reported rather than confirmed, and whose effect depends on the drone reconnaissance that Armenia is also still buying. No numbers or basing are recorded.
Visual identification
Twelve tubes in two six-tube pods on the rear of an 8×8 Tatra truck; the twin-pod arrangement on a truck chassis separates it from the single block of the BM-21 and the larger Smerch.
Documented conflict use
Delivery reporting only: Indian and Armenian media reported first shipments in late 2023 and further batches in 2024, with the Armenian government confirming the Indian arms relationship without itemising it. No operational use, and no public display in Armenian service, is documented. The module tracks the purchase under Armenia's procurement diversification, not as a fielded capability whose effect can be read.
Assessed as of — 2026-06 Last reviewed — 2026-09-28