Pakistan's Artillery Upgrade Discussions

[Edevelop]

what is your source for the info. The figures do not seem to be correct.

Wikipedia...

 

[fatman17]

Wikipedia...

bingo !!!!

just check the pakistan army information thread......

 

[Edevelop]

 

[Jango]

At around 1:39, the way that thing comes out, somebody could get his hands or body part blown off if not careful.

I have never been familiar with artillery, but respect for Artillery guys. THe smoke in 40C in a desert.

That is a huge turret, 8 inch M110 SP.

 

[Manticore]

T155 Panter.

a100

apologies if posted esrlier

 

[Manticore]

M109

M110*

SH1

we need a dedicated artillery thread and an armoured vehicles [tanks + apc thread in pak section] -- I've bumped 2 threads in this respect

 

[Manticore]

 

[Manticore]

credits to original uploaders

 

[Manticore]

 

[Manticore]

 

[Manticore]

need pictures for KRL-21,KRL 122 mm*,KRL_120mm_Ghazab, KRL_30_X_120mm_Ghazab_Azar, WS-1B

pak def

 

[Manticore]

Development / Description

Abdul Qadeer Khan Research Dr. laboratories multiple rocket launcher assembly and two sets of 122.4 mm caliber, 3.1 meters of stainless steel pipe missiles are arranged in three lines of five years and mounted on a rack. Assembly can be either a vehicle mounted (for example, a series M35 (6 × 6) truck and used by the Pakistani army) or trailer to pull the vehicle.

Firing mechanism is the type of electricity that can either be operated from the fire box to control provided in the cockpit of the car or from a protected location at a distance of about 50-60 m from the launcher using a remote control connected via cable launcher. The rockets can be launched singularly or in rocket fire. Pass the Assembly is 180 degrees with no height limit being 0-55 degrees. The latter can be either electrically or manually controlled. The rocket fire from Grad 122 mm standard fin stabilized and produced by Pakistan Ordnance Factories. Maximum range of this system is 20380 meters.

Status:

Production. In service with the Pakistan Army.

Company Name: Dr. Khan Research Laboratories Q

Has developed KRL 122 - Kahuta Research Laboratories of Pakistan rocket launcher that is very similar to 11 North Korean BM. And was originally based 122 KRL Isuzu truck but later models of used trucks M35 Rio. Some remember Gadab sources label or Azar. Except the original Soviet missiles, "Yarmuk" developed by Pakistan Ordnance Factories can be launched.

B) Abdul Qadeer Khan Research Dr. laboratories multiple rocket launcher assembly and two sets of 122.4 mm caliber, 3.1 meters of stainless steel pipe missiles are arranged in three lines of five years and mounted on a rack. Assembly can be either a vehicle mounted (for example, a series M35 (6 × 6) mounted on trucks or towing a trailer.

Firing mechanism is the type of electricity that can either be operated from the fire box to control provided in the cockpit of the car or from a protected location at a distance of about 50-60 m from the launcher using a remote control connected via cable launcher. The rockets can be launched singularly or in rocket fire. Pass the Assembly is 180 degrees with no height limit being 0-55 degrees. The latter can be either electrically or manually controlled.

The rocket fire from Grad 122 mm standard fin stabilized and produced by Pakistan Ordnance Factories. Maximum range of this system is 20380 meters.

Pakistan origin
Type self-propelled multiple rocket launcher
122 mm caliber
Pipe 30
Rocket along the N / A
Weight no missile
Warhead weight N / A
N Minimum chucking / A.
Maximum shooting 20380
Rate of Fire N / A
Re n / Time
High N / A
Pass N / A
Site N / A
Launch vehicle M35 6 x 6 truck
Anti weight N / A
Vehicle speed on the roads N / A


Launch vehicle n Range / A.





KRL 122 mm (30-round) MRLS

Development / Description
The Dr AQ Khan Research Laboratories multiple rocket launcher assembly has two groups of 122.4 mm calibre, 3.1 m long stainless steel rocket tubes arranged in three lines of five and mounted on a cradle. The assembly can either be vehicle mounted (for example, on an M35 series (6 x 6) truck as used by the Pakistan Army) or trailer mounted for towing.
The firing mechanism is an electric type which can either be operated from a fire-control box provided in the vehicle's cabin or from a sheltered position at a distance of some 50 to 60 m from the launcher using a remote-control device connected to the launcher by cable. The rockets can be launched singularly or in salvo. Traverse of the assembly is 180 ° with elevation limits being 0 to 55 °. The latter can be either electrically or manually controlled. The rockets are of the standard 122 mm Grad fin-stabilised type and are produced by the Pakistan Ordnance Factories. Maximum range of the system is 20,380 metres.
Status:
Production. In service with the Pakistani Army. COMPANY NAME: Dr AQ Khan Research Laboratories
KRL 122 - Kahuta Research Laboratories from Pakistan have developed a rocket launcher that is very similar to the North-Korean BM-11. The KRL 122 was originally based on an Isuzu truck but later models use the Reo M35 truck. Some sources mention the designator Gadab or Azar. Except for the original Soviet rockets, the "Yarmuk" developed by Pakistan Ordnance Factories can be launched.

b) The Dr AQ Khan Research Laboratories multiple rocket launcher assembly has two groups of 122.4 mm calibre, 3.1 m long stainless steel rocket tubes arranged in three lines of five and mounted on a cradle. The assembly can either be vehicle mounted (for example, on an M35 series (6 x 6) truck or trailer mounted for towing.

The firing mechanism is an electric type which can either be operated from a fire-control box provided in the vehicle's cabin or from a sheltered position at a distance of some 50 to 60 m from the launcher using a remote-control device connected to the launcher by cable. The rockets can be launched singularly or in salvo. Traverse of the assembly is 180 ° with elevation limits being 0 to 55 °. The latter can be either electrically or manually controlled.

The rockets are of the standard 122 mm Grad fin-stabilised type and are produced by the Pakistan Ordnance Factories. Maximum range of the system is 20,380 metres.

Origin Pakistan
Type Self-Propelled Multiple Rocket Launcher
Calibre 122 mm
Tubes 30
Rocket Length N / A
Rocket Weight N / A
Warhead Weight N / A
Minimum Firing Range N / A
Maximum Firing Range 20,380 m
Rate of Fire N / A
Reloading Time N / A
Elevation N / A
Traverse N / A
Crew N / A
Launcher Vehicle M35 6 x 6 truck
Combat Weight N / A
Vehicle Road Speed ​​N / A
Launcher Vehicle Range N / A

http://armpoli.montadarabi.com/t4325-topic

 

[Manticore]

2009
Pakistan Ordnance Factories and French Company signs MOU on rocket technology

Pakistan Ordnance Factories and a French company signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on upgrading the capabilities of 122 mm rockets used by the Pakistani armed forces on the sidelines of the Defence Systems and Equipment International Exhibition which opened in East London Tuesday.

The MOU was signed on behalf of POF by its chairman Lt.General Shujaat Zamir Dar and by David Quancard, president, Roxel company, which is a leading French company dealing in rocket technology. Federal Minister for Defence Production Abdul Qayyum Khan Jatoi was also present on the occasion.

The contract when materialised will help Pakistan armed forces to enhance the firing range of the present stock of 122 mm rockets in its arsenal from its current range of 20 kilometres to 40 km and beyond.

The French company chief sales executive Francis Rodriguez speaking to the media said the present Pakistani rockets are equipped with the Russian technology and are quite outdated and once actual agreement is signed with his company, the induction of new technology will not only increase the range but make the weapon more lethal and effective.

He said POF is manufacturing defence equipment of international standard and his company trust the Pakistan technology and is happy to assist POF in bringning further new advancements.

Rodriguez said since the induction of a democratic government in Pakistan, its relations with France has deepened and both President Asif Ali Zardari and Nicholas Sarkozy are keen to see that these are further consolidated in all fields particularly in the defence sector. France is already a major defence supplier to Pakistan including Mirage warplanes and submarines and other equipment for its forces.


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[Manticore]

This is the first time for China to export the A-100 MLRS to a foreign country. South Asian military industry analysts believe that Pakistans procurement of the A-100 is in response to Indias acquisition of the Russian Smerch, or Tornado, MLRS. Both the Smerch and the A-100 are 300-mm calibre rocket launch systems.

In 2001, India signed a contract with Russia to purchase US$450 million worth of Smerch MLRS, which made their first appearance at Indias 2008 National Day military parade. A source from the Chinese military industry claims that the Smerchs maximum range is 90 kilometers, while the A-100 can fire its latest submunitions as far as 120 kilometers. After being fitted with a simplified strike correction system, the A-100s strike accuracy is increased to 33 percent.

The Pakistani military is considering a possible transfer of production site for the A-100 out of China. However, at the current stage, Pakistan will continue to import the system, according to the military industry source.

Some international analysts are of the opinion that the A-100 and the AR-2 300-mm MLRS produced by Chinese manufacturer Norinco are both imitation versions of the Russian Smerch MLRS. But the manufacturers of the A-100 and the AR-2 insist that these three types of MLRS are completely different. Neither the A-100 nor the AR-2 can fire Smerch rocket munitions, nor do they use the same propellant rocket motors or components.

In addition, China is now undertaking technological and structural upgrades of both the A-100 and AR-2 multi-rocket launch systems. These upgrades may include replacing their tube-shaped launchers with box-shaped launchers, as the former are much more expensive, cannot be quickly and easily reloaded and are more difficult to maintain. The similar AR-1 MLRS, which are fitted with box-shaped launchers, no longer require transloaders to load the rockets.

Determined to maintain its already commanding lead in the arena of long-range field artillery over its Indian counterpart, the Pakistan Army is gearing up to induct into service two Regiments (or 36 launchers) of the 10-barrel, 300mm A-100E multi-barrel rocket launcher (MBRL) and its related ground-based fire-control systems from China’s China Precision Machinery Import-Export Corp (CPMIEC) and CETC. Also being acquired are approximately 90 SH-1 155mm/52-calibre motorised howitzers from NORINCO of China, plus three Regiments of the CPMIEC-built HQ-9 long-range surface-to-air missile (LR-SAM) system (these being acquired by the Pakistan Air Force, or PAF), while from Ukraine the Pakistan Army will be acquiring about 400 T-84U main battle tanks (MBT) off-the-shelf.

It was during the visit last October to China of Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani that Islamabad and Beijing inked the contracts for the initial 36 A-100Es and two CETC-built SLC-2 passive phased-array weapons locating radars (WLR), plus the SH-1s. This followed the round of competitive evaluations conducted by the Pakistan Army of the A-100E and the competing NORINCO-built AR-2, another 300mm MBRL also of Chinese origin. The A-100E comprises a launch vehicle, and reloading vehicle and command-and-control vehicles, all of which are mounted on the WS-2400 8 x 8 wheeled chassis (the same truck also tows the launcher for the Babur multi-role cruise missile). All 10 rockets, each equipped with a 200kg warhead, can be fired within 60 seconds out to a range of 100km, and it can be reloaded in 20 minutes. The NORINCO-built AR-2 MBRL, on the other hand, has 12 launch tubes from which rockets armed with a wide variety of warheads are fired. The warhead options for the A-100E include fragmentation sub-munitions warhead, anti-tank mine scattering warhead, shaped-charge fragmentation submunitions warhead, separable HE-fragmentation warhead, fuel-air explosive warhead, and HE-fragmentation warhead. The target acquisition and fire-control system elements include the CETC-built 702D meteorological radar station and SLC-2 WLR.

The NORINCO-built SH-1 motorized 155mm/52-calibre howitzer underwent extensive mobility and firepower trials in December 2007 in Pakistan’s Northern Areas, and underwent similar field trials last June in the Thar Desert. The SH-1 can fire rocket-assisted V-LAP projectiles out to 53km, as well as laser-guided projectiles like NORINCO’s ‘Red Mud’ and KBP Instrument Design Bureau’s Krasnopol-M2. The SH-1 can also fire base-bleed 155mm rounds out to 42.5km, and its truck chassis houses a fibre-optic gyro-based north positioning-cum-navigation system, battlespace management system, autonomous orientation-cum-muzzle velocity radar, gun loader’s display-cum-ramming control box, ammunition box housing 25 rounds (of seven different types) and their modular charges, and a network-centric artillery fire direction system. A complete SH-1 Regiment comprises 24 SH-1s, four Battery Command Post vehicles, one Battalion Command Post vehicle, one road-mobile CETC-built JY-30 C-band meteorological radar, four 6 x 6 wheeled reconnaissance vehicles, and an S-band CETC-built Type 904-1 artillery locating-cum-fire correction radar. Earlier, on September 9, 2007 the Pakistan Army accepted at its Nowshera-based School of Artillery the first of twelve 18-tonne T-155 Panter 155mm/52-calibre towed howitzers from Turkey’s state-owned Machines and Chemical Industry Board (MKEK). The Panter was co-developed in the late 1990s by MKEK and Singapore Technologies Kinetics. For producing the 155mm family of munitions, Wah Cantonment-based Pakistan Ordnance Factories (POF) has teamed up with South Korea’s Poongsan and on April 12 last year, Gen Kayani symbolically received the first lot of licence-assembled K-307 BB-HE and K-310 155mm BB dual purpose improvised conventional munitions (DPICM) Ammunition from POF Chairman Pakistan Lt Gen Syed Sabahat Hussain.

PHL-03 is the same system as A-100, difference is PHL-03 is Chinese Army designation, while its export name is AR-2.

A-100 and AR-2 difference is, A-100 is a ten barrel 120KM range system, while PHL-03 or AR-2 is a 12 barrel 150Km range system.

But A-100s can also be upgraded to have the 12 barrels launcher with 150KM range rockets.

PHL03 - Chinese development of PHL96. Only very limited number of PHL96 entered Chinese service because its successor PHL03, soon entered service shorter after. PHL03 is a highly digitized PHL96 with computerized fire control system (FCS), and the crew is increased to 4 from the original of 3 of BM-30/PHL96, entering service around 2004-2005,[15] only a year or two after its predecessor PHL96. The FCS of PHL03 incorporates and GPS/GLONASS, similar to that of Type 90A SPMRL. As with its predecessor PHL96, strictly speaking, PHL03 is not exactly a guided SPMRL because like PHL96, PHL03 does not have any guided rocket, and the guidance was achieved via sub-munitions.
AR-1 - Chinese development of PHL03. This is actually the first model in among the Chinese versions of BM-30 SPMRL that is a truly guided rocket system in that the rocket itself is guided by a simple primitive cascade inertial terminal guidance used on WS series SPMRL, which became standard for later Chinese versions. Russia had already developed a guided version of BM-30 with mid-course radio command guidance to immediately correct the error in the flight of the rocket once detected by the ballistic tracking radar, but this was not adopted due to financial constraints.[16] Unconfirmed Chinese internet sources have claimed that when China negotiated the license production right in 2008, this guided design was also purchased, but such claims has yet to be verified by official or independent sources.
AR-1A - Chinese development of AR-1. A 10 round version of AR-1, with 2 launching boxes each containing 5 expandable launching tubes. Once rockets are lunched, the entire launch box is replaced, instead of individually reloading each tube in earlier version, thus greatly reducing the time to reload.[17][18]
AR-2 - Chinese development of AR-1/1A manufactured by Norinco, with range increased to 130 km.[19]
AR-3 - Chinese development of AR-2 manufactured by Norinco, with caliber increased to 370 mm, but can also adopt 300 mm caliber as well. As with AR-1/1A/2, AR-3 adopts modular design by incorporating 2 launching boxes containing several launching tubes, with the launching boxes replaced after the launching of rockets. When using 300 mm caliber rockets, each launching box contains 5 launching tubes like earlier AR-1/1A/2, and when using 370 mm caliber rockets, each launching box contains 4 launching tubes.

 

[Nishan_101]

POF, HIT and HMC should have joined with Germans as well as with Ukranians for their Artillery programs and Tank programs that have proved to be much more lethal...