Land

Rocket artillery and MLRS

Domain: Land
NCF capability: Land fires
Military Balance category: Multiple rocket launchers
SIPRI category: Artillery
Evidence that places a platform here: multiple.(launch )?rocket · \bMLRS\b · \bMRLs?\b · rocket artillery · rocket launcher system

The 24 nations

None, legacy only, modern, or modern and on order. Modern: in service from 1995, or the current generations of fighters, tanks, submarines and long-range air defence.

Generation timeline

Each platform from its first flight or launch to today, the 40 most operated, earliest in service first. Grey is development and, after the lead operator retires it, the years other nations keep it; colour is service.

Development, from first flight or launch
In service, from first deployment
After its lead operator retires it, still held elsewhere
Today
Flag beside the name: the home country

Dates from Wikidata: first flights or launches for 0 of these 13, retirements for 0. A bar without grey at its start has no first flight recorded.

Platforms

Ranked by the number of the 24 nations that hold each.

Platform	Operators	Active	On order	In service	Origin
M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System	11	1,232		1983	USA
BM-21 Grad	6	1,011		1963	SUN
M142 HIMARS	6	547	55	1996	USA
Type 63 rocket launcher	5	2,790		1961	CHN
TOS-1	3	41		1988	SUN
BM-27 Uragan	2	216		1975	SUN
RM-70	2	46		1972	CSK
TRG-230	2				TUR
Type 81 rocket launcher	2	579			CHN
Arash	1	50			IRN
Bateleur FV2	1	25			ZAF
FIROS	1				ITA
Fajr-3	1	10		1996	IRN
Fajr-5	1				IRN
K239 Chunmoo	1			2015	KOR
KN-09	1				PRK
KN-25	1				PRK
LAR-160	1				ISR
LORA	1				ISR
Multiple rocket launcher	1				USA
Naze'at	1				IRN
Oghab	1			1985	CHN
PHL-03	1	175			CHN
PHL-11	1	510			CHN
PHL-16	1	120			CHN
Pampero MRL	1	5			ARG
TOS-2	1			2021	RUS
Tondar-69	1			1992	IRN
Tornado multiple rocket launcher	1	220			RUS
Valkiri	1	26		1982	ZAF
multiple rocket launcher	1				KOR

Fingerprints

Each nation's equipment fingerprint with only rocket artillery and mlrs in colour.

United States M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System 991, M142 HIMARS 368

United Kingdom M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System 26

Australia M142 HIMARS 8

France M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System 9

Germany M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System 33

Japan M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System 99

South Korea M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System –, Multiple rocket launcher 227 mm M270 227 mm M270A1 –, multiple rocket launcher K-30 (130 mm) K-33 (131 mm) –

Canada M142 HIMARS –

Italy M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System 21, M142 HIMARS –

India BM-21 Grad 150

Türkiye Type 63 rocket launcher 100, M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System –, TRG-230 TRLG-230 –

Saudi Arabia BM-21 Grad –, K239 Chunmoo –, M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System –

Brazil

Indonesia RM-70 Vampire 36, RM-70 Grad 9, Type 90B 4

Mexico FIROS 122mm –

Argentina Pampero MRL 5

South Africa Valkiri 26, Bateleur FV2 25, Type 63 rocket launcher –

Russia BM-21 Grad 650, 9A53-G Tornado-G 200, BM-27 Uragan 175

China Type 63 rocket launcher 1,390, PHL-11 510, PHZ-89 375

Israel M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System 30, LAR-160 –, LORA –

Ukraine TRG-230 TLRG-230 –

Taiwan M142 HIMARS 8–14

Iran Type 63 rocket launcher 910–1,690, BM-21 Grad 70–130, Arash 35–65

North Korea M142 HIMARS 85–159, BM-11 –, KN-09 –