AH-4 155 mm howitzer

Conflict Usage

Sudan War

Side: Rapid Support ForcesRole: Heavy indirect fire supportstrike

Sudan War: fielded by Rapid Support Forces; Amnesty International identified AH-4 howitzers in RSF-held material after the 27-28 March 2025 Khartoum retreat and said the system was used in Darfur.

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Related Weapon Systems

Artillery120 mm M75 mortar120 mm towed smoothbore mortarThe 120 mm M75 mortar is a Yugoslav-designed towed smoothbore mortar for infantry fire support, smoke, illumination, and high-angle indirect fire in broken terrain. In the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict, open-source loss documentation places M75 mortars with Armenian/Artsakh forces during the 2020 war, where several were destroyed or captured.

ArtilleryAH-1 155 mm Howitzer155 mm towed gun-howitzerThe AH-1 is a Chinese 155 mm towed gun-howitzer associated with Norinco's PLL01/WA-021 artillery family and marketed as an export model with an auxiliary power unit. In the Tigray War, open-source documentation lists seven AH-1 howitzers among heavy weapons visually confirmed as operated by Tigray Defence Forces after large quantities of Ethiopian Army equipment fell into Tigrayan hands.

ArtilleryM198 155 mm howitzer155 mm towed howitzerThe M198 is a U.S.-designed 155 mm towed howitzer developed at Rock Island Arsenal to replace older M114-series guns. Its air-transportable carriage, nine-person crew, and 22-30 km range made it a standard U.S. Army and Marine Corps fire-support weapon before the lighter M777 replaced it in U.S. service. In the 2013-2017 Iraq war archive, the directly sourced use centers on Islamic State capture of Iraqi M198s in 2014 and reported firing of a captured gun.

ArtilleryMortarsInfantry and artillery mortar classMortars are short-barreled, high-angle indirect-fire weapons used by infantry, artillery units, and armed groups for close support, harassment, and attacks on positions behind cover. The catalog entry treats mortars as a broad weapon class because the direct conflict sources usually document mortar use without identifying exact calibers or models, including Philippine government support fires at Marawi, Hezbollah fire at Mount Dov, jihadist attacks in Mali and Sinai, FARC dissident improvised mortars in Colombia, Sudan War battlefield use, and Cambodia-accused cross-border fire.

Artillery120 mm mortarHeavy mortarThe 120 mm mortar is a heavy, muzzle-loaded indirect-fire weapon class used worldwide in towed, dismounted, and vehicle-mounted forms. During the 2019 India-Pakistan Border Skirmishes, Pakistani gunners fired 120 mm mortars across the Line of Control, and AFP reported a Kalal house being hit by nine rounds.

Artillery120 mm mortar launcherHeavy mortar launcherA 120 mm mortar launcher is a heavy crew-served indirect-fire weapon used to fire high-angle mortar bombs from a tube, baseplate, and bipod or from a vehicle mount. In the Boko Haram Insurgency, the documented case here is a Nigerien report that a 120-mm mortar was seized from Boko Haram fighters in the Lake Chad region, so the entry treats the system as an insurgent-held heavy mortar rather than a precisely identified national model.

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