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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M270_Multiple_Launch_Rocket_System

One launcher firing twelve rockets can completely blanket one square kilometer with submunitions. For this reason, the MLRS is sometimes referred to as the "Grid Square Removal System" (metric maps are usually divided up into 1 km grids).[6] A typical MLRS cluster salvo consisted of three M270 vehicles each firing all 12 rockets. With each rocket containing 644 M77 grenades, the entire salvo would drop 23,184 grenades in the target area.
Is the idea of taking out an entire kilometer of infantry with "steel rain" an exaggeration or an accurate description of the MLRS' ability?

How much damage could a few units of M270 MLRS do if placed in WW2 (assuming they don't get destroyed of course) against the Red Army for example?

If it performs as well as it's said to, I'm imagining whole rifle divisions of infantry obliterated in a matter of minutes from distances farther than the longest ranged Soviet artillery can reach.
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