A Multi-Launch Rocket System (MLRS) firing batches of six 227mm rockets with 600 M4Z type anti-tank munitions, 1991

Photograph by Sergeant David John Miles, Gulf War (1990-1991), 1991.

Unlike traditional artillery, the mobile MLRS vehicles can fire their rockets and then move away to avoid counter-battery fire.

One of 29 black and white photographs taken by Sergeant David John Miles, Army Photographer, during the Gulf War, 1990-91. Part of a collection of items relating to the service of Sergeant Miles as a photographer in the Gulf and Kosovo.