SinoSoldier
Colonel
This is a new 52-caliber wheeled SPH system named PLZ155/52. It is different from the 39-caliber SH-11 from several years ago, although they are probably both based on the ZBL08 chassis.
Self Propelled Gun/Rocket Launcher
- Thread starter FORBIN
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No. It's a horrible design, significantly reduce the size of warhead.
The correct English term for your German description would be "Barrel travelling lock"
By reusing otherwise scrapped cluster munition rocket, ability to loiter, 360 deg coverage, 150km range in a 227mm package, CEP of few meters and still enough to kill HVAs. I wouldnt call it horrible. Norinco however does shown small cruise missile/ loitering munition fired from SR-5 MLRS.
The main disadvantage is, why not use aircraft to drop it? This design removes the advantage of guided rocket. And rocket booster is more expensive than the mission cost of jet fighter.
The middle tube's lid looks wobbly like its made of rubber300mm rockets in service with troops in Tibet. Four rockets per box (not five), two boxes per vehicle, for a total of eight rockets per vehicle. Note the middle 'tube' is not a functional launch tube.
