Back to top
M257 (2.75" Rocket Illuminating Warhead)
The M257 is a US-developed, base-fuzed, illuminating flare dispenser warhead, which is attached to the rocket motor of 2.75" (≈69.9 mm) unguided rockets. The M257 illuminating warhead, when connected to a rocket motor, is used to provide battlefield illumination. An M257 equipped rocket is primarily intended for use by helicopters and low-speed fixed wing aircraft. The M257 illuminating warhead was type-classified as ‘Standard’ in Januar...
More information available for M257 (2.75" Rocket Illuminating Warhead)
Backed by subject matter experts and proprietary AI tools, METIS, our advanced OSINT system, delivers verified, timely, and reliable intelligence on conflict, post-conflict, and instability scenarios.
- Data is collected in multiple languages such as English, Arabic, Spanish, French, Russian, Ukrainian, Burmese.
- Thousands of highly-detailed technical records including munitions, platforms and CBRN agents curated by our subject matter experts.
- Heatmaps and charts which enable district, country, cross border and regional analysis.
- Search events by keywords, categories, locations, munition or platform designations and CBRN threat type.