Chinese infantry fighting vehicles

L2SG said:

It's a pretty amateur article in my opinion. (oh and that comment section is an absolute cancer)

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It's Daily Mail... most of it's readers are American Christian neocons and British nationalists.

Broccoli said:

It's Daily Mail... most of it's readers are American Christian neocons and British nationalists.

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.... "American Christian neocon." Really Broccoli?
The daily mail is a British tabloid, and does not have an American addition it only publishes Commonwealth and continental regional editions including India and North Africa. Although it can be read online now. It doesn't have A US subsidiary.
I have only seen it twice in paper form on the US continent at an international airport, and in Washington DC at the news museum.

It's the most read English language newspaper on Earth with roughly 55.8 million worldwide unique users per month

sure the Commonwealth nations is a pretty big population base.

Chinese air force airborne unit in exercise

Type 92B Wheeled APC of Chinese UN Peacekeeper in South Sudan is equipped with light slat armour.

Designed by Norinco

Cage or Slat armor is intended to work by catching RPG type rounds and making them prematurely detonate. The Shaped charge effects are limited unless they make direct contact with the Vehicle hull. It's also lighter in weight, easy to bolt on and allows seeing through it which is why it became so popular.

WestRiver said:

Type 92B Wheeled APC of Chinese UN Peacekeeper in South Sudan is equipped with light slat armour.
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TerraN_EmpirE said:

Cage or Slat armor is intended to work by catching RPG type rounds and making them prematurely detonate. The Shaped charge effects are limited unless they make direct contact with the Vehicle hull. It's also lighter in weight, easy to bolt on and allows seeing through it which is why it became so popular.

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Until the day when tendom warhead and top-attack ATGM become so common like in Syria civil war....

MwRYum said:

Until the day when tandem warhead and top-attack ATGM become so common like in Syria civil war....

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If they were worried about that they would have traded the Type 92's in. The Vehicle is a light APC protected from small arms. A M2A3 with it's 25mm would chew it up as a light snack. It's armored but not that well armored. the Slat armor is more of a stop gap I think well the PLA figures out if they want to buy MRAPS.
That said If you look at the latest Tanks/IFV and Tank/IFV up armor kits. they still have Slat armor around the power packs and parts of the turret.
Well ERA and a combination of Soft and Hard kill APS have been added. It's part of a Comprehensive armor set. heavy armor around the parts that need it lighter where you can get away with it.
TUSK, BUSK, T90MS, T14, Leopard Revolution, Even a fully kitted out Vt4 or Type 99 would have some Slat.