Chinese Army Inducts New Armored Vehicles, Howitzers & Rocket Launchers
It was reported that now 90% the total equipments are newly inducted into Xinjiang military garrison in recent months, amazing speed of modernization process.PCL-181 155mm wheeled vehicle-mounted howitzersThe Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA)’s Xinjiang Military Command has taken delivery of three new advanced weapon systems – armored vehicles, howitzers and self-propelled rocket launchers – over the past week. Another newly delivered weapons system is a new-type, four-wheeled 122mm-caliber self-propelled howitzer, to a group which recently conducted its first live-fire target practice deep in the Karakorum Mountains at an altitude of 4,500m. The howitzer partially uses technologies from the PCL-181 155mm-caliber self-propelled howitzer. In addition, a batch of new PHL-03 long-range self-propelled heavy rocket launchers, which are highly mobile, fast-reacting, highly accurate, very deadly and jamming-resistant, recently went into service at a unit deployed in a snow-covered region at an elevation of more than 5,200m, Chinese media reported. The command received the first batch of newly developed Type 15 light tanks in early 2021.