122mm BM-11

The BM-11 is a North Korean 122mm multiple rocket launcher, an indigenous variant of the Soviet BM-21 Grad. It typically features 30 launch tubes mounted on a truck chassis, distinguishing it from the 40-tube Grad.

Developed in the late 1970s, North Korea created the BM-11 to establish a domestic, highly mobile rocket artillery capability by adapting Soviet technology to lighter, more readily available commercial truck chassis. The system officially entered service with the Korean People's Army in the early 1980s as a standard divisional artillery asset. It saw significant export success and combat deployment during the Iran-Iraq War, where North Korea supplied numerous units to Iranian forces, as well as during the Lebanese Civil War. Today, while largely relegated to reserve forces and the Worker-Peasant Red Guards in North Korea, the BM-11 remains a testament to Pyongyang's early defense industrial self-reliance and proliferation efforts.