New Type98/99 MBT thread
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Finally, Chinese engineers
. The goal of such an innovation is to interrupt the penetrating force of an attacking munition with lateral energy. This could be a shaped charge’s ductile jet or explosively formed penetrator (EFP, depending on the type of shaped charge) or the solid dart of an armor piercing fin stabilized discarding sabot (APFSDS) round.”
never heard of this before. How credible is this source?
Finally, Chinese engineers
. The goal of such an innovation is to interrupt the penetrating force of an attacking munition with lateral energy. This could be a shaped charge’s ductile jet or explosively formed penetrator (EFP, depending on the type of shaped charge) or the solid dart of an armor piercing fin stabilized discarding sabot (APFSDS) round.”
never heard of this before. How credible is this source?
I find it very suspect because it also says Type 99A uses DU armor and shells. The former is something we don't really have info on (but also wouldn't be surprising), but the latter contradicts the public specs of the tank. China has always considered high quality tungsten penetrators as superior, and it's the leading producer in that industry.
No lol
DU armor is a product of the US being unwilling to produce a decent enough composite armor at a reasonable weight to up armor the Abrams quickly, back when they realized that the T-72 had a 125mm gun and not the 115mm one they expected.
It works and its cheap relative to having to develop a new composite armor array but there are better ways to solve the problem that dont involve the risk of giving cancer to tank crews
the failure rate is interesting, I wonder how reliable those numbers were. not a good look if they were true.
It's been known that the transmission especially on the early model aren't reliable.