 Ukrainian forces destroy Russia's Uragan system UAV control centre in south. Ukraine's defence forces have destroyed the enemy's UAV control centre, an electronic warfare station and a command post of a motor rifle regiment of the Russian armed forces in southern Ukraine. Ukraine's operational command south said this in a post on Facebook. The Uragan 1M is a recent Russian artillery rocket system. It was deployed to replace both the aging Uragan 220mm system that was adopted back in 1975, the SMERSH 300mm system that was adopted in 1987. Both of these systems are extremely capable and are widely used by the Russian army. This artillery rocket system is extremely effective against area targets such as concentration of troops and armoured vehicles, artillery batteries, airfields. The Uragan 1M is a multi-caliber system. It can carry two pods with various rockets. This system can launch a rocket with various calibres including pods with 300mm rockets of the SMERSH and 220mm rockets of the Uragan. It can fire all current SMERSH and Uragan rockets. The Uragan 1M is based on the Belarusian MZK-T7930 special-wheeled chassis with 8x8 configuration. The vehicle is powered by a YA-MZ-A46 turbocharged diesel engine.