Type 63 130mm på NJ 230 Truck - Bilder &; Video

Bildegalleri av en Type 63 130mm på NJ 230 Lastebil, The Type 63 multiple rocket launcher is a towed, 12-tube, 107mm rocket launcher produced by the People’s Republic of China in the early 1960s and later exported and manufactured globally. Although no longer serving with active infantry units, the Type 63 is still in People’s Liberation Army service with specialized formations such as mountain infantry units and special forces detachments. The Type 63 was widely used in the PLA until the late 1980s. It was adopted as the successor of the Type 50-5 of 102mm. China has also developed a Type 63 multiple rocket launcher of 130mm. The BM-14 is a Soviet 140mm MRL of similar design to the Type 63.

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Den Type 63 130mm multiple rocket launcher is a Chinese weapon system mounted on the Nanjing NJ-230 two-axle all-wheel drive truck chassis. It has the following key features:

• – 130mm caliber rockets
• – 19 launch tubes arranged in a package at the rear of the truck
• – Elevation range from 0 to 50 degrees
• – Firing is done by deploying the launcher at an angle from the vehicle’s axis to avoid damage from the rocket exhaust
• – Additional outriggers are used for stability during firing
• – Crew of 6 personnel
• – Unguided 130mm rockets with a maximum range of around 10km
• – High-explosive fragmentation warhead weighing 11kg with 3kg of explosives
• – First introduced in the mid-1960s for the People’s Liberation Army
• – Inferior performance compared to Soviet BM-14 and BM-21 systems of the time
• – Saw action in the Sino-Vietnamese War and was exported to Iraq
• – An improved version called the Type 63-1 appeared in the 1980s on the Dongfeng EQ1980 truck chassis