page_title: Type 63 multiple rocket launcher
section_title: Operators
hierarchical_section_title: Type 63 multiple rocket launcher / Operators
caption_attribution_description: Rebels have acquired a vast array of weaponry, both handed over and confiscated from the military. It includes AK-47 and other types of assault rifles, grenades, surface-to-air missiles, rocket-propelled-grenades, Grad and other mobile-style rocket launchers, mortars, and M40 recoilless rifles.
context_page_description: The Type 63 multiple rocket launcher is a towed, 12-tube, 107mm rocket launcher produced by the People's Republic of China in the early 1960s and later exported and manufactured globally. Although no longer serving with active infantry units, the Type 63 is still in People's Liberation Army service with specialized formations such as mountain infantry units and special forces detachments. The Type 63 was widely used in the PLA until the late 1980s. It was adopted as the successor of the Type 50-5 of 102mm.
  China has also developed a Type 63 multiple rocket launcher of 130mm. The RPU-14 is a Soviet 140mm MRL of similar design to the Type 63.
context_section_description:  Afghanistan
   Albania – 270. Withdrawn from service.
   Azerbaijan
   Burkina Faso – ~4 as of 2016
   Bosnia and Herzegovina – former user
   Cambodia
   Chad
   People's Republic of China
   Congo-Kinshasa – 12 as of 2016
   Djibouti
   Ghana – ~3 as of 2016
   Indonesia
   Iran – 700 as of 2016
   Liwa Fatemiyoun
   Iraq
   Iraqi Kurdistan
   Islamic State
   Popular Mobilization Forces
   Jordan
   North Korea
   Lebanon
  Lebanese Forces
   Palestine Liberation Organisation
   Libya
   Mauritania – 4 as of 2016
   Malaysia- retired
   Myanmar – 30 as of 2016
   Nicaragua – 33 as of 2016
   South Africa – (Launchers captured in Angola, rockets manufactured locally)
   South Sudan
   Sudan – 477 as of 2016
   Sri Lanka
   Syria
   Turkey – Manufactured locally as TR-107.
   Vietnam – Fielded during the Vietnam War. 360 as of 2016
   Zimbabwe – 16 as of 2016
caption: A Type 63 used by Libyan rebels
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