Tokchon (artillery)

The Tŏkch'ŏn is a series of tracked artillery pieces developed by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s.

The Tŏkch'ŏn generally makes use of a modified AT-S [ru] artillery tractor as a chassis to mount with a variety of existing Soviet towed artillery designs.

[2] Their ballistic characteristics are generally comparable to their towed counterparts.

In 1990, George T. Norris of the United States Army Foreign Science and Technology Center gave an assessment stating that the North Korean artillery had an advantage in range and rate of fire over their counterparts in the South, but also noting that these self-propelled mounts offer no protection for their crews other than a small gun shield surrounding the fighting compartment.

[2] Janes former editor Christopher F. Foss, states that while the original Soviet AT-S chassis was unarmoured, most of North Korean self-propelled guns are provided with additional armour.