Myanmar Launches MAM-03 Multiple Rocket Launcher and MMT-40 Light Tank

10 Januari 2023

MAM-03 Multiple Rocket Launcher and MMT-40 Light Tank (photos : MRTV, MizzimaTV)

Anniversary celebration The 75th Anniversary of Burma's Independence on 4 January 2023 was held in Nay Pyi Taw in the presence of the Chairman of the State Administration Council (SAC) and the Supreme Commander of the Burmese Armed Forces Senior General Min Aung Hlaing.

Together with the Burma Air Force commander and other guests, watch a parade that combines historical and cultural performances of Burma. and the demonstration of the Myanmar Armed Forces (Myanmar Armed Forces, Tatmadaw) both on the ground and in the air in full.

In the flight show of Myanmar Air Force aircraft (Myanmar Air Force, Tatmadaw Lei) includes the latest Russian Su-30SME fighter jets that have just been delivered in 2022.

The Myanmar Army's (Tatmadaw Kyi) land parade also revealed what is likely to be two new weapons: the MAM-03 wheeled multiple rocket launcher and the MMT-40 light tank developed by the Burma Army. Department of Defense Industries (DI: Directorate of Defense Industries), Myanmar as well.

It is now referred to among military analysts as the MAM-03, a new multiple rocket launcher system developed after the 122mm MAM-01 and multiple rocket launchers. The 240mm MAM-02 was previously in service.

The MAM-03 system has a four-tube 300mm rocket launcher which is understood to be similar to the Chinese WS-1B multiple rocket launcher mounted on a Burmese-built Mil-truck 6x6 heavy-duty vehicle,  Ukrainian KrAZ 6x6 branded truck.

The A100 family of surface-to-surface rockets developed by the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT) is based on the WS-1 family of systems developed by China National Precision Machinery Corporation (CPMIEC), a state-owned rocket and weapons company, lead the Chinese way.

The 300mm A300 surface-to-surface missile has a range of up to 290km, is equipped with a 150kg warhead, and is guided by GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) and INS (Inertial Navigation System) satellites with Circular Error Probable (CEP) at 30m-45m.

While the MMT-40 light tank was first seen on social media online of the prototype in 2017, the base carriage should have been based on the MT-LBMSh APC(Armored Personnel Carrier).

Which the Burma Army procured from Ukraine has been modernized and equipped with a Shturm turret equipped with weapons such as A 30mm machine gun and a 7.62mm co-axial machine gun, assembled in Burma, as well as the BTR-3U wheeled vehicle, are also supplied from Ukraine.

The base carriage of the MMT-40 Burmese light tank has a wheel presser. 7 wheels, which can be seen from being painted white for the latest parade. It is a tracked vehicle, the same size as the Russian 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika tracked self-propelled artillery, based on the MT-LB tracked chassis with 6 tracked wheels as well.

As for the turret, it is probably the same system that is installed with the WMA-03 6x6 armored vehicle, which is an export version of the Chinese PTL-02 armored vehicle. A 105mm tank gun, a 7.62mm coaxial machine gun, and a 12.7mm heavy machine gun were 

mounted in the commander station turret.

Multi-barreled rocket launcher MAM-03 rubber wheels that participated in the 75th anniversary of the Myanmar Independence Day parade that was found in 3 systems, as well as the MMT-40 light tanks that participated in the parade, number 3 cars that should be There are prototypes that have been built but the number of total builds is unknown at this time.

Following the 2021 elected civilian coup, the Burmese military junta procured weapons from Russia and China, alongside developing its own weapons in the country. But there is an observation that Ukraine used to be an exporter and transfer of weapons technology to Burma, but now it has become an opponent in the war with Russia.

(AAG)