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| Observation / report period | Value | Source | Claim state |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Sept 2026 | 10.5 m | Wikipedia contributors | superseded |
Self-propelled artillery
China
See § Operators
Yemeni Civil War (2014–present)
Norinco
1980s – early 1990s
Norinco
$ 7.1 millions
1997
33 tonnes
10.5 m (34 ft 5 in)
3.3 m (10 ft 10 in)
2.6 m (8 ft 6 in) with AAMG
5
155 mm
360°
Maximum: 5 rounds/min Sustained: 2 rounds/min
(HE) 24 km; (ERFB) 30 km; (ERFB-HB-BB) 39 km
Protection against small arms fire and artillery shell splinters
PLL-01 howitzer
12.7 mm heavy machine gun 2 sets of 4-barrel grenade launchers
Deutz turbocharged air-cooled diesel engine 525 hp (391 kW)
15 hp/tonne
Torsion bar
550 km (340 mi)
55 km/h (34 mph) (on-road)
Algeria
China
Ethiopia
Kuwait
Saudi Arabia
Operated by a crew of five (commander, gunner, two loaders and a driver), the PLZ-45 is armed with a 155 mm, 45-calibre main gun, with a semi-automatic loader and an electrically controlled and hydraulically operated ram that enables projectile loading to take place at any angle of elevation with the charge being loaded manually.
Reference text from Wikipedia contributors, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PLZ-45 equipment records. Variants, orders and quantities are shown as reported in each inventory source; coverage is incomplete.
AlgeriaArmy exact named equipment holdings: PLZ-45. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: ARTILLERY / 155mm. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
Army holdings of the exact named PLZ-45 component; source ε estimate, not an exact census. Active, reserve operational and training units, excluding equipment in store. This is a service-scoped observation, not a national total or combat readiness. Any explicit leased subset is included in, not added to, the quoted total. No parent-design or sibling-variant count inherited.
EthiopiaNumber column of the Wikipedia list table under "Self-propelled artillery". The list's own wording applies; it is a compiled secondary source, not an official census.
KuwaitReported count for PLZ-45. Service scope: Kuwait Land Forces; does not replace a national total. 1 distinct count cell(s) from the same source list; shared rowspan cells counted once. Retired, wholly reserve and on-order rows are excluded; the reported count retains any explicitly mixed stock scope in the quoted row. Count column(s): quantity: 51. Origin: China. The listed variants/roles are the scope, not an immediately deployable count. The components do not establish one inventory census date; the stored date is the retrieved source snapshot.
Saudi ArabiaArmy exact named equipment holdings: PLZ-45. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: ARTILLERY / SP 155mm. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
Army holdings of the exact named PLZ-45 component: active, reserve operational and training units, excluding equipment in store. This is a service-scoped observation, not a national total or combat-readiness count. No parent-design, sibling-variant, heading aggregate or mounted-weapon total is inherited.
China