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Jeremy Binnie , Abu Dhabi - IHS Jane's Defence Weekly Janes.com - Norinco' s new AR3 multiple rocket launcher (MRL) dominated the Chinese stand at the IDEX show in Abu Dhabi and led a large array of guided rocket/surface-to-surface missiles. The key difference between the new system and the AR2 that is already in service with the People's Liberation Army (PLA) is that it can fire larger 370 mm rocket s, as well as the 300 mm ones used with the older system, Norinco representative Xu Wulin told IHS Jane's . The AR3 launcher can accommodate two pods of rockets , each of which can contain four 370 mm or five 300 mm rockets, he said. In contrast, the AR2 can launch 12 300 mm rockets, each of which has to be individually loaded. Norinco also displayed its new Fire Dragon series of guided munitions for its MRLs, with the Fire Dragon 140 being the guided version of the 300 mm rocket and the Fire Dragon 280 the 370 mm. Both use an inertial navigation s...