The same old problem remains: GF funding.
Chinese infantry fighting vehicles
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Must be for tourist attractions by the presence of small kids sitting on chairs in the right cage.An interesting and likely one-off example of a ZBD-97 mounting an old MBT turret from Type 59/69 or Type 80/88.
I like this cute little guy, it looks so .... boxy , kinda has the M113 charm
this is a poor represented cg...not any value of reference
A turret previously intended for the Type-15 competition was observed installed on a ZTL-11 chassis in Baotou. (maybe it's for export?)
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Or maybe PLA is trialling it to see if it is worth refitting its fleet of ZTL-11s with a modern autoloading & stabilized turret?
Because I'm not sure if the factories still produce the old chassis, now that the evolved version have been fielded by PLA.
If this project is for export, then Norinco/ PolyTech might have some sort of a trade-in program with the PLA to replace the old ZTL-11 with the new evolved version, just to acquire the old chassis.
This sounds a bit too imaginary, so how about military assistance program? Though in that case the old ZTL-11 should be perfectly adequate... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If you flip back a few pages, you'll notice that PLA was still delivering new ZTL-11 not long ago.