The American M270 MLRS or Multiple Launch Rocket System is one of the most powerful rocket systems in NATO’s arsenal. Adopted by the US and Western Europe in the 1980s, it was developed to counter the overwhelming superiority of Soviet rocket launchers.Armed with 12 lethal rockets with a range of over 40 kilometers that can deliver over 8,000 M77 munitions in a combat zone in less than 60 seconds, the powerful all-terrain armored platform based on the M2 Bradley vehicle has seen combat in many different wars.This sight might have been the last thing enemy combatants saw and heard during the Iraq War before a rain of fire lit up the daytime sky…