five expandable launching tubes. Once rockets are launched, the entire launch box is replaced, instead of individually reloading each tube as in earlier versions, thus greatly reducing the reload time. A-100E – Export variant of the AR-1A. In service with the Pakistan Army. AR-2 – Chinese development of the AR-1/1A manufactured by Norinco, with range increased to 130 km. AR-3 – Chinese system manufactured by Norinco launching 300 mm or 370 mm rockets Vilkha - A Ukrainian development of the Smerch system that entered service in 2018 with the Ukrainian Rocket Forces. See also Astros II MLRS BM-24 240 mm multiple rocket launcher BM-27 Uragan 220 mm multiple rocket launcher Fajr-5 333 mm rocket launcher HIMARS, U.S. multiple rocket launcher Katyusha BM-13 multiple rocket launchers of World War II M270, U.S. multiple rocket launcher Pinaka Multi Barrel Rocket Launcher, 214 mm Indian multiple rocket launcher TOROS 230–260 mm rocket launcher TOS-1 Buratino Heavy Flame Thrower System (multiple rocket / thermobaric weapon launcher) Vilkha 300 mm Ukrainian multiple rocket launcher References Russia's Arms Catalog 2004 Bibliography Jamie Prenatt and Adam Hook, Katyusha – Russian Multiple Rocket Launchers 1941–Present, New Vanguard 235, Osprey Publishing Ltd, Oxford 2016. External links Smerch – 9A52 – 300mm multi-barreled rocket launcher – Walk around photos Splav State Research and Production Enterprise Wheeled self-propelled rocket launchers Cold War artillery of the Soviet Union Self-propelled artillery of Russia Multiple rocket launchers of the Soviet Union NPO Splav products Modern thermobaric weapons of Russia Cluster munition Military vehicles introduced in the 1980s