That’s not even the worst that can happen. It is entirely possible to accidentally load the ball before the powder. Any mistake with a breech loading tank gun is tame in comparison.
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That’s not even the worst that can happen. It is entirely possible to accidentally load the ball before the powder. Any mistake with a breech loading tank gun is tame in comparison.
That's what I'm saying: movement limited to roads. Cannot really do any offensive maneuvers.
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They are always transported by highway or railways, especially railways no matter they are in East China lowland plain or West China plateau. Once they are in operational area they are off roads, also regardless of whether in East or West China.
If you care to spend time to search for videos, there are many videos. As I wrote earlier in February 2021 the face to face confrontation on the high mountains of Himalaya between Indian T-72M2 and Chinese MBT, probably type 99 (7th and 8th second in the video) but the video is a bit blur. Ther are no highway there.
3 type 99 facing Indian T-72 and T-90
Chinese tank at the center, Indian tanks on the right side
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The rods won't be able to stay in the barrel once the breech is opened, it will slid out by itself, nearly. The rods are locked together to form a long rod the lenthg of the whole barrel. You can't even push the shell into the barrel if you do forget to remove it.
This method is for long term storage, not in between battle maintance. The classic method put oil on the surface of the barrel before storage, then takes hours of cleaning work when tank is activated before transport. The new method puts the rods in the barrel and also enclose the whole tank with clothes coated with same chemicals.
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ZTZ-99B on way to phase out 99A's
But are they really phasing out the ZTZ99A?...Really? There are still units with the older ZTZ99 still out there.
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Nice picture!
They are giving the 99As to units with 99s and likewise giving the 99s down to the 96 units that aren't getting Type 100s soon. So they are really trying to phase out the older 96s and 88s.
This year (2026) a large number of new equipment is entering service with the Army.
Sergeant First Class Ding Hui's company is currently equipped with ZTZ-99A's.
Ding Hui said "Next, my company will be receiving new equipment in batches".
Do we know if the 99Bs are new builds, upgraded 99As, or a combination of both?
If upgrades, will the OG 99s also be upgraded?
99Bs as of right now seems to be a mix of rebuilds and new ones. Type 99 is essentially a completely different tank to Type 99A and hence is impossible to "upgrade" it into a Type 99A or B.