i wonder why theres never any videos of the 370mm MLRS in action
Self Propelled Gun/Rocket Launcher
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The variety of artillery the PLA fields is mind boggling.
PLA seems to have more artillery pieces, varieties, and platforms than the rest of the world combined. The capability also seems to be world leading thanks to western militaries placing much smaller emphasis on artillery due to the kinds of wars they have been fighting during the turn of the century and indeed the 21st century. Excalibur and other guided rounds? lol China has many guided artillery types and can make them 10 times faster, 100 times cheaper.
Artillery is regarded by PLA as the backbone of land warfare and land war is the backbone of all warfare. They've realised how inappropriate this attitude is after watching the US pick apart middle eastern militaries using superior networked warfare built on the back of air, naval, space, and digital superiority. Well the PLA was never a slouch in those domains but certainly had much room to catch up back in the 1990s.
PLA's artillery capabilities are so impressive they don't really even need to expend any expensive missiles or guided ordinance within a 300km fighting range. PLA basically has highly capable, cheap and abundant ballistic missile effectiveness within a 300km range as long as artillery units can be deployed.
Months back I watched a clip of PLA guided artillery hitting moving targets from 150km or so. Slamming through the moving target boards like ballistic missiles with close to zero CEP.
Even those long range large MLRS look like they have CEP within metres. Insanely impressive especially if they can do this at all terrains and throw hundreds at targets.
Artillery is regarded by PLA as the backbone of land warfare and land war is the backbone of all warfare. They've realised how inappropriate this attitude is after watching the US pick apart middle eastern militaries using superior networked warfare built on the back of air, naval, space, and digital superiority. Well the PLA was never a slouch in those domains but certainly had much room to catch up back in the 1990s.
PLA's artillery capabilities are so impressive they don't really even need to expend any expensive missiles or guided ordinance within a 300km fighting range. PLA basically has highly capable, cheap and abundant ballistic missile effectiveness within a 300km range as long as artillery units can be deployed.
Months back I watched a clip of PLA guided artillery hitting moving targets from 150km or so. Slamming through the moving target boards like ballistic missiles with close to zero CEP.
Even those long range large MLRS look like they have CEP within metres. Insanely impressive especially if they can do this at all terrains and throw hundreds at targets.