'tornado', 'whirlwind'), 9K58 Smerch or 9A52-2 Smerch-M is a heavy self-propelled 300 mm multiple rocket launcher designed in the Soviet Union to fire a full load of 12 solid-fuelled projectiles.

The system is intended to defeat personnel, armored, and soft targets in concentration areas, artillery batteries, command posts and ammunition depots.

[11] During the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Armenia and Azerbaijan both targeted each other's territory with Smerch rockets.

[13] Smerch rockets were fired from Belgorod in the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine.

During the Battle of Kharkiv it is alleged that 11 Smerch rockets were fired on 27–28 February alone.