PHL-191

China's modular, long-range wheeled multiple-launch rocket system — the backbone of the People's Liberation Army Ground Force's deep-fires modernization, built to deliver precision strikes with guided rockets and tactical ballistic missiles out to ~500 km and, in operational planning, to range the entirety of the Taiwan Strait.

Overview

The PHL-191 (also known as PCL-191 or PHL-16; export designation AR3) is a modular, 8×8 wheeled multiple-launch rocket system fielded by the People's Liberation Army Ground Force (PLAGF). Unlike previous Chinese MLRS that were fixed-caliber and relatively short-ranged, the PHL-191 introduces swappable ammunition pods, allowing a single launcher to fire 300 mm or 370 mm guided rockets or 750 mm tactical ballistic missiles — a leap that gives a ground-based artillery system the reach to strike across the 180–500 km Taiwan Strait. The type was first seen publicly at the 1 October 2019 National Day parade and has since been issued to PLAGF group-army artillery brigades as the premier long-range precision-fires system.

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