A-100 (multiple rocket launcher)

[1] China reportedly received a small number of the Russian Smerch 9K58 300 mm, 12-tube multiple launch rocket system and its ammunition in 1997.

The submunition is fitted with kinetic energy fragment warheads which are said to be able to penetrate 70mm of armour at an angle of 30° to the normal.

China National Precision Machinery Import and Export Corporation (CPMIEC), a trading company that markets Chinese missile and defence technologies to foreign customers, revealed the A-100 multiple launch rocket system in 2000.

In 2019, Pakistan admitted that China sold the designs of A-100 system to Pakistan and Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) released an official statement regarding the indigenously developed A-100 and commissioned as Multiple Launch Rocket System in its Regiment of Artillery.

The onboard computer corrects the vertical deviation by adjusting the warhead detonation time so that the submunitions are spread with high accuracy.

The vehicle is equipped with four hydraulically operated stabilisers which are lowered in preparation for the rocket launch.

Export version Development of A100 with simple cascade inertial terminal guidance updated by GPS.