FPV drone operators of the Signum unit of the 93rd Mechanized Brigade destroyed an enemy ersatz MLR on a wheeled chassis with an RBU-6000 naval rocket launcher.

Volunteer Serhii Sternenko shared this on his social media page.

It is reported that the ersatz MRL was destroyed in the Bakhmut sector at coordinates 48.591009, 38.040667.

“This Frankenstein monster with a naval rocket launcher was driving through the Bakhmut sector, but after meeting your warm drone, there will be no more,” the report said.

RBU-6000 on the Ural truck chassis

On January 24, Militarnyi reported the Russians installed an RBU-6000 Smerch-2 213mm anti-submarine rocket launcher on the Ural 4320 truck chassis.

At the time, a truck with a rocket launcher was spotted in temporarily occupied Alchevsk in the Luhansk region.

RBU-6000 on the T-80B tank chassis

On January 23, it was reported that the Russians installed a naval rocket launcher on the T-80B tank chassis, allegedly belonging to the Russian Navy’s Marine unit.

Then, a video was published capturing launches from two such systems.

RBU-6000 on MT-LB chassis

In the fall of 2023, a photograph appeared of a naval rocket launcher on the MT-LB tracked tractor chassis.

RBU-6000

The RBU-6000 is a Soviet anti-submarine rocket launcher with a fixed dual-plane gun system with twelve radially located tubes.

It was developed by the Research and Development Centre №1 and adopted by the USSR Navy in 1961.

The system is designed to destroy enemy torpedoes and submarines.

The boundary angles of guidance RBU-6000 in the vertical plane are between -15° and +60°, and in the horizontal plane at the heading angle, they are between 0° and +180°.

The speed of the guidance drives in the automatic mode is 30° per second and 4° per second in the manual mode. Most likely, the units installed on the Ural, T-80B, and MT-LB are manually operated.

The launcher is armed with RGB-60 depth charges with a UDV-60 fuser.

The charges have a weight of 113.6 kilograms and a flight speed of up to 300 meters per second. The maximum firing range reaches 5230 meters.

The RBU-6000 installed on ships has a special mechanism for loading ammunition from the cellar under the system. Installed on vehicles and armored vehicles, the system will be charged manually.

Accordingly, most likely, there will be no Burya fire control system. Therefore, targeting will also be performed in manual mode, which will negatively affect the system’s accuracy.