Chinese infantry fighting vehicles
- Thread starter Broccoli
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Photos of Cameroon's deployment of Type 07P IFVs, export version of the ZBL 09, supported troops against a Boko Haram offense in a small village during late December.
Type07P is not related to the ZBL09 at all. 07P is made for export only.
janjak desalin
Junior Member
c'est tres formidable!
Ultra
Junior Member
ZBD04A
LOL, that IFV hatch just doesn't make any sense. Could someone please explain to me how they going to close that driver hatch (now that its got a ballistic glass enclosure)? The hatch is even in the way for the turrent to turn properly without the gun barrel to hit the hatch!
Equation
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janjak desalin
Junior Member
It's best, I think, not to offer criticisms prematurely, at least not before we've actually done the basic work of achieving the best analysis that we possibly can. My interpretation is that the "(...)ballistic glass enclosure(...)" that you see, is, a collapsible/removable dust-shield that drivers use while on the march and, obviously, not in combat.
The pic, attached herein, in which the three, rear, AIFVs all have these dust-shields deployed makes it, even more, evident that they are in a march, and not a combat, formation.
I'm more curious about the trim vane having all those little windows, seems unnecessarily complicated or fragile. Perhaps the trim vane was an afterthought? Or it was decided this setup is easier or cheaper than to give the driver periscoping sights?