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What is the name of this?
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LKJ86 put this in the wrong section. This is the CS/AA5 , a remote controlled 40mm autocannon on top of the type 08 ifv platform. It's got crazy 140mm pen at 1000m with apfsds rounds. The picture shows that it's got good gun elevation to deal with heli and low flying aircraft in a SPAA role probably with proximity fuse HE rounds.
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SUPER MODERN ARTILLERY: PCH-191
The 370mm (14½ inch) rockets are used by China's PCH-191 MLRS (Multiple Launch Rocket System), one of the most powerful system in the world in its class. This newly unveiled system in 2019 can be loaded either with 8 x 370mm rockets (with hitting range of 350km) or 2 x 750mm Fire Dragon 480 tactical ballistic missiles (with hitting range of 500km), both are guided by BDS.
In recent live firing exercise in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau at altitude of over 3,500 meters, the rockets could even reach almost 400 kilometers due to the thinner air and high elevation position.
Here's an older footage made in 2019, though with some early erroneous info about the max range (it mentioned just 200km) and number of personnel needed to operate the PCH-191 (three, not five, are what needed):
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