Chinese infantry fighting vehicles

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chuck731 said:
It's not just technology. It also has to do with clarity of operational requirements. Right now China does not face a large sustained land threat tthat would otherwise serve to clarify and stabilize operational requirements. Unless China clarifies the requirements herself by making up her mind to do something big with her army, like invading someone, she is likely to "cross the river by feeling the stones", and develop smaller batches of equipment with different mixture of characteristics in order to better explore what meeting each possible operational requirement might entail.
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A good example of this would be the former Soviet Union mass produced huge amount of tanks and armored units that fits into the terrain and weather of Europe during the Cold War bordering along most of Eastern Europe.
 
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AssassinsMace said:
I want one.

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The site where I got this says it's an ATGM launcher. Aren't those rocket launchers?
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Those are too short for normal rocket artillery. The vehicle they are on is a small 8x8 utility runner, may be only a little bigger than something like the german Weasel 2 platform. It is not a 8x8 armored car or MICV. It is too small by far to support respectable rocket artillery
 
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The PLA really do love these little ATVs... they've stuck HMGs, and even MLRS on top, and now this interesting eight rocket/missile set up.
I'm not really sure how effective these will be, even if they are usually paired with Mi-17s and can carry a crew of six with gear. Good for utility and fast maneuver, but if they get anywhere near a fifty cal, they're dead. Not to mention guided rockets or heaven forbid, anti tank missiles -shudder-
 
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AssassinsMace said:
Here are a couple more variations.



They look fun to drive. I wonder if they're sold commercially.
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They are... or at least something like that.

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Bltizo said:
The PLA really do love these little ATVs... they've stuck HMGs, and even MLRS on top, and now this interesting eight rocket/missile set up.
I'm not really sure how effective these will be, even if they are usually paired with Mi-17s and can carry a crew of six with gear. Good for utility and fast maneuver, but if they get anywhere near a fifty cal, they're dead. Not to mention guided rockets or heaven forbid, anti tank missiles -shudder-
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More importantly, they afford no overhead protection. In modern battle environment with cluster munition, these are little death traps.
 
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