Chinese infantry fighting vehicles

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HeroOftheFerelden

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Interestingly the Recon Battalion in the 112nd Brigade(LZ37) is the 7th battalion among all the battalions rather than the 5th in all the other CABdes

Tracked combat recon vehicle based on 89A chassis
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7108, 7th Battalion, 1st Company, 8th of the recon vehicles
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First gen 4x4 light armoured recon vehicle since the formerly 112nd Division was the pioneer of the Digitized Combined Arm transformation,
later 4x4 light armoured recon vehicles all based on 2nd gen Mengshi(CSK131A) or 3rd gen Mengshi(CSK182)
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by78

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Three very nice images of a Mengshi-III convoy.

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by78

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sheogorath said:
Supposedly leaked image of an unidentified IFV was posted on Reddit. Not sure if it has been posted here before.

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It could be a modified VN-17 export IFV with upgraded armor and an unmanned turret taken from the VN-22. It's too blurry and too obscured to tell, but the road wheel looks different and the hull appears longer (might have seven pairs of road wheels instead of six). There are other differences in the hull, so this might be a new heavy IFV for export. We'll find out next month at Zhuhai.

VN-17 from the previous Zhuhai show:
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VN-22:
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sheogorath

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by78 said:
I could be wrong, but that looks like a VN-17 export IFV with upgraded armor and an unmanned turret taken from the VN-22. It's too blurry and too obscured to tell, but the road wheels looks different and the hull appears longer (might have seven pairs of road wheels instead of six). We'll find out next month at Zhuhai.

VN-17 from the previous Zhuhai show:
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The bulge for the gear and sprocket wheels at the front seems to be missing in the VN-17. Also, in the road wheel right behind the column, you can see similar indentations to those found in the Type 96/99 tanks' roadwheels

Someone in the thread mentioned it looked like a VT-4 based heavy IFV shown as a model some time ago but with a different turret.

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by78

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sheogorath said:
The bulge for the gear and sprocket wheels at the front seems to be missing in the VN-17. Also, in the road wheel right behind the column, you can see similar indentations to those found in the Type 96/99 tanks' roadwheels

Someone in the thread mentioned it looked like a VT-4 based heavy IFV shown as a model some time ago but with a different turret.

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Right, it does look like the VN-50 (VT4 is now the official name of MBT-3000). It even has the fuel drums in the back. I think this is it.

I hope they have retained the rear machine guns.

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tankphobia

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I wonder if it's protection level could be anywhere approaching Israeli Namer APC, which are capable of surviving multiple ATGM and RPG strikes without damage. Most likely not, since an APC that weights as much as a heavy tank will have little utility in an offensive focused army.
 
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