Indian media have been irritated again recently because China and India have just held the 16th round of military talks on July 17, which are still inconclusive, and the recent CCTV news revealed that the Chinese People's Liberation Army has deployed the PCL-191 multiple rocket launcher system at high altitudes and has conducted precision strike tests. The range of this rocket artillery system is actually farther than the RECENTLY HYIMA ROCKET SYSTEM HYVISHED BY THE WESTERN MEDIA, AND THE ACCURACY IS HIGHER, and all the military bases in the actual control zone of India on the Sino-Indian border are almost within the attack range of PCL-191, so India feels threatened.
PCL-181 Vehicle-mounted 155 mm plus howitzer Fire Source: Privy Council No. 10
We look at the recent Russian-Ukrainian battlefield, Ukraine used the U.S.-made Haimas rocket artillery system, to the Russian army has brought a lot of damage, the Modular Launcher used by the Haimas rocket artillery, it can switch three different ammunition, Ukraine has only received 12 Haimas rocket launchers, the ammunition obtained is only a 227 mm guided rocket with a range of 70 kilometers, but its range has exceeded all the artillery of the Russian Army in addition to the "Tornado S" rocket system, plus the "Haimas" The launch vehicle has a high degree of motorization, quickly switches between driving and firing states, and can quickly strike and quickly withdraw, making it difficult for the Russian army to counterattack it. Therefore, the Hippos rocket launcher has recently been blown up by the Western media as an artifact of the Ukrainian army's counterattack against the Russian army.
Whether the effect of the Hippos is so divine or not is not clear, but the power of the PCL-191 multiple rocket launcher system has been fully demonstrated. This advanced long-range rocket artillery system made its public debut at the National Day military parade in October 2019. India's Eurasia Info previously reported that China's state media confirmed that the rocket launch system has been deployed on the China-India border near the Himalayas in April 2021, and the PCL-191 multiple rocket launcher system also uses a modular design, allowing it to carry two 750 mm "Dragon 480" tactical ballistic missiles with a range of up to 500 kilometers, or eight 370mm rockets with a range of up to 350 kilometers, in addition to carrying ammunition of other calibers.
The 227 mm rocket is the main weapon of the "Haimas" Source: Military sub-plane
What worries Indians even more is that the PCL-191 system is on the thin air of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, when the actual shooting of targets in the Indian plains, the range of rockets and missiles can be further improved, so the Indian media is only worried that its range can cover the military base of the Indian army, but as long as you look at the map, you can understand that the Indian capital New Delhi is only more than 300 kilometers away from the Tibetan border area, and the range of the PCL-191 rocket artillery system is actually enough to cover the city of New Delhi. As for Liecheng, India's most important military base in the so-called Ladakh region, it is only about one hundred and twenty kilometers away from the Line of Actual Control of our army on Pangong Lake, and is completely within the range of the PCL191 rocket launcher.
The Indian military is actually well aware that if a conflict breaks out on the China-India border, China can inflict heavy losses on India only by relying on long-range rocket artillery systems, and after the outbreak of the Galwan Valley conflict in 2020, China began to deploy advanced weapons along the China-India border, including, for example, the PHL-03 multiple rocket launcher system with a range of 70 to 130 kilometers and the PCL-181 truck gun, and the Indian Army has no similar weapons system to this day.
"Haimas" rocket artillery Source: The Paper
However, the Indian Army actually has some long-range rocket artillery systems. Between 2008 and 2010, the Indian Army imported 42 Tornado rocket launchers from Russia in two batches, assigned to three artillery regiments, deployed in the western region to confront Pakistan's imports of A100 long-range rockets from China. However, the maximum range of these "tornado" rockets is 70 kilometers, and India has not introduced accurate guided munitions, and Russia has not specially developed plateau shooting tables for India, so these "tornado" rockets cannot be effectively used in the highland areas of the Sino-Indian border.
China believes that the Indian military is actually aware of all this and is well aware of their equipment disadvantages.
So why are they so obsessed with border negotiations and show "lost confidence"? This can only be asked of the Indians themselves.