Self Propelled Gun/Rocket Launcher

[Taiban]

These are numbers from IISS military balance 2025. They are usually quite credible.

Sorry but Military Balance is wrong on many accounts every year. Its good for comparative analysis because the errors maybe similar of the two Armies being compared. Simple glaring mistakes in IISS 2025- just two examples

1. PLA's ISR Satellite numbers are way off
2. Pakistan Army inducted some HQ9 in 2024 & that number remains some in 2025. As per IISS, PAF neither has HQ9 nor has inducted any LR SAM since 2018. While PA inducted HQ9P in 2019 (as per the photo of their Army Chief) & PAF inducted HQ9BE in 2021.

There are many such errors in IISS Military Balance. Even J20 numbers seem wrong.

My suggestion- Just use it for broad idea & not as final authority

 

[by78]

Ammo replenishment for PHL-16/PCL-191.

 

[by78]

Rare images of a counter battery radar vehicle that accompany PCL-171 122mm self-propelled howitzers and PHL-21 MRLS.

 

[by78]

PCL-181 day and night.

 

[00CuriousObserver]

Are the rockets (supposedly from PHL-191) purposefully curving their trajectory?

 

[Rina]

It carries both 300mm and 370mm rockets

 

[Neurosmith]

Are the rockets (supposedly from PHL-191) purposefully curving their trajectory?

Well, they are guided, so...

If you're asking whether or not they can depress their trajectory to minimize interception in the same manner as HGVs, I doubt it.

 

[Blitzo]

Are the rockets (supposedly from PHL-191) purposefully curving their trajectory?

Yes, almost certainly so. One of the benefits of guided rockets with control surfaces

 

[00CuriousObserver]

Well, they are guided, so...

If you're asking whether or not they can depress their trajectory to minimize interception in the same manner as HGVs, I doubt it.

Yes, almost certainly so. One of the benefits of guided rockets with control surfaces

What I am wondering about is, would altering the trajectory in this manner be done as a way to conceal their launch location to a degree?

 

[Blitzo]

What I am wondering about is, would altering the trajectory in this manner be done as a way to conceal their launch location to a degree?

I'm not so sure about that (could be possible, but would be expense at some effective range) -- it is possible the rockets are targeting different locations and thus branching out.