On October 25, according to the Russian Satellite News Agency, the Jordanian Army conducted a live-fire exercise called "Rainstorm" -2 Norinco, launching a WM-120 rocket artillery system introduced by norinco.
WM-120 rocket artillery system, there are 8 273mm directional launch tubes, the minimum range of rockets launched is 34 kilometers, the maximum range of 120 kilometers, called long-range rocket artillery.
Its strike accuracy is a circular probability deviation of about 50 meters, for a large-caliber rocket with a maximum flight distance of more than 100 kilometers after exiting the gun port, this circular probability deviation is not high, and the 273mm rocket landing explosion is powerful, and it still has a very strong lethality for targets of 50 meters in the explosion area.
For the Jordanian Army, a small country located in the northwest of the Arabian Peninsula, the WM-120 long-range rocket artillery system can be called a "killer" level weapon in its hands, and it is a very big threat to Israel.
The "Iron Dome" interception system, equipped by the Israeli military, was once known for intercepting indigenous rockets such as "Kasan" in the Palestinian-Israeli military conflict, but it may not be able to stop the high-speed WM-120 long-range rockets.
Judging from the pictures of the WM-120 rocket launched by the Jordanian military, the rocket engine spewed out a blue tail flame, which is called "beautiful flame chrysanthemum" by articles on the Internet, which is a very rare tail flame color in large-caliber rocket fire shooting.
According to this, whether it can be speculated that the Jordanian Army may have launched an improved 273mm rocket, and the WM-120 rocket has a maximum firing distance of 120 kilometers in encyclopedic knowledge, or it has become an old yellow calendar, and its maximum range has been newly improved.
Including the circle probability deviation of the WM-120 rocket on the network is about 50 meters, perhaps it is also the old yellow calendar, the 273mm rocket has been equipped with the "Beidou" satellite navigation device, and the strike accuracy has been greatly improved, referring to the 300mm large-caliber rockets equipped by the "long-range fire" brigade of our army group army, the circular probability deviation within a range of 150 kilometers is 10-15, and it has the ability to hit mobile targets such as tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, and self-propelled howitzers on the battlefield.
In fact, there is already evidence that the 273mm rocket launched by the WM-120 long-range rocket artillery system equipped by the Jordanian Army has been modified and upgraded, the maximum range has been increased to 300 kilometers, the strike accuracy has been increased to 30 meters, and the strike accuracy of tactical ballistic missiles has been fully used as short-range tactical missiles on the battlefield.
Rocket artillery has become a precision strike weapon on the battlefield, subverting the general cognition of Chinese military fans, rocket artillery is only a face killing weapon, and upgraded to a combination of point and surface lethal weapons, with the accuracy of missile strikes, this is the rocket mounted with guidance device to bring about the improvement of strike capability.
The reason why the WM-120 is called the "rocket artillery system" is that it is composed of rocket launchers, ammunition loading vehicles, command vehicles, reconnaissance vehicles, weather radar vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles and maintenance support vehicles, which is an extremely complex and huge system.
The entire WM-120 rocket artillery system is highly modern, the combat efficiency is also very high, the whole system only takes 300 seconds from preparation to launch, and the ammunition loading vehicle is equipped with a hydraulic boom, which can load the 8 273mm rockets to be launched within 600 seconds.
The Jordanian Army, which prides itself on introducing the WM-120 long-range rocket launcher system, considers the system to be a "strategic" weapon for its own country, which can change the local war situation and make other countries easily dare not launch an attack on Jordan.
For the Middle East, there are many small countries in themselves, the land area is not large, Jordan is equipped with WM-120 long-range rocket artillery system, even if the maximum range is 120 kilometers, added to the border zone, can also bring a very big threat to the towns of other countries, such as can easily hit jerusalem occupied by Israel as the de facto common capital of Palestine and Israel, the warhead weighs 150 kg 273mm rocket explosion power, think it is very terrible and terrifying.
China's research and development of 273mm, 300mm, 370mm, 750mm and other large-caliber rockets contain ammunition, with long range, great power, high precision, easy to control, tactical flexibility, strong mobility, simple maintenance and other characteristics, in the international arms market has a very large competitiveness, the Middle East has many countries are equipped with large-caliber long-range rocket artillery systems made in China.
Recently, the Firing Exercise of the WM-120 Long-range Rocket Artillery System conducted by the Jordanian Army invited some foreign military attaches stationed in Jordan to watch, and they were very impressed by the rocket artillery system and praised it, which is equivalent to giving free advertising to the North Industries Group, the unit that develops the WM-120 long-range rocket launcher.