This is a really good video. It shows how high the KPAs morale is. It also shows China that they're learning from the best.
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They generated hype better in this parade than in the latest Chinese one. It being at night and the somewhat chaotic mood create a more celebratory environment, the soldiers look more enthusiastic to be there whereas in China usually the soldiers just look like they're showing up as part of the mission and its the civilian floats that carry enthusiastic people.
Still waiting for next PLA event.
In the DPRK, the military received 30 sets of giant MLRS with a caliber of 600 mm, which can also be used to launch tactical nuclear missiles. There are no technical details of the settings. It is known that MLRS data missiles have a high ability to bend around the terrain, as well as maneuverability and high speed. On January 1, 2023, the North Korean military performed a training launch from a single installation. The projectile covered 350 kilometers with a maximum flight altitude of 100 kilometers and hit a given area of the Sea of Japan east of the Korean Peninsula. In the DPRK, there are two more variants of the 600-mm MLRS on an 8 × 8 wheeled chassis.
In the capital of the DPRK, Pyongyang, on February 8, a night military parade was held in honor of the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Korean People's Army. The parade, along with his wife and daughter, was hosted by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. The parade is not particularly different from all past parades, except that a record number of military personnel took part in it and an unknown new DPRK tank was again shown. This tank has been noticed at parades for more than a year, but so far nothing is known about it. The tank does not even have a name, it is called differently, the M-2020 tank, the Storm tank. Visually, the M2020 tank is similar to the American M1 Abrams tank and the Russian T-14 Armata. The tank has enhanced armor in the lateral projection and on the sides. The gun of the tank is a 125-mm Russian 2A46 cannon, the tank has a machine gun coaxial with the gun and an AGS-30 grenade launcher. The tank has two Bulsae-3 ATGMs, it is believed that it was developed on the basis of the Russian Fagot and Kornet ATGMs. For the first time on the tanks of the DPRK, an active protection system for tanks was installed, it can be seen at the base of the tank turret, visually the complex resembles the Russian Afghanit system installed on the T-14 Armata tank, sensors of possible active protection systems are located in the front corners of the tower. Panoramic sights are located on the roof of the turret, it is possible that the tank has a thermal imager. It is not excluded that many systems are still props. It is assumed that the M2020 tank is equipped with an engine with a capacity of 1200 horsepower, the estimated mass of the tank is about 55 tons. There are suggestions that the tank was created using the technology of Russia and China.
The amount of badly informed ...bs within this paragraph is pretty impressive.
No, that's not 125-mm Russian 2a46 cannon;
No, that's not AGS-30 grenade launcher;
No, Bulsae-3 were not developed 'on the basis of the Russian Fagot and Kornet ATGMs';
No, the complex doesn't really resemble Afghanit;
No, the weight assumption is taken out of thin air;
And suggestions that the tank was created using the technology of Russia and China is a random Ohio Joe level of useful input. After inhaling something less than healthy.
This "lamp" channel is honestly annoying. Videos made up of short google search are bad enough - why do we need such videos not even in English?
Much better and more informative channels were banned from this forum for less.
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Interesting criticism, zero information content, then tell me what kind of weapons? Videos with subtitles in 32 languages
Writing full explanations to claims is quite a requirement. Writing "According to informed sources, it is assumed that ZTZ99 is based on ancient Roman and Aztec technology, which Sui agents stole from Turks" doesn't take comparable effort.
But for example, let's take the first one:
"The gun of the tank is a 125-mm Russian 2A46 cannon"
1. It doesn't look like 2a46 cannon - if anything, because it lacks a thermal jacket, which is a basic recognition attribute for this gun(which separates it from 2a26), and the ejector is different.
2. Moreover, it's outright impossible to fit basic 2a46 into North Korean tanks - the breach opens the wrong way for the given internals of NK turrets (the loader sits on the left).
3. It, however, looks more like 2a26 and especially older 115mm 2a20 - which, it just so happens, North Korea obtained a full license and know-how for. The relative length, barrel structure, and position of the ejector are an excellent match.
4. Even 115mm 2a20 was changed here, however - again, basic seating in Soviet and NK tanks is different, so at the very least gun breach operates in the opposite direction.
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Out of the whole sentence - no, it isn't 125-mm (everything points to 115mm), it isn't Russian (North Korean, based on 1960s Soviet tech transfer made in 1970s), and it isn't 2A46. Otherwise, the sentence is completely right - it's indeed a gun of a tank.
The same level of accuracy is true for all the following points.
The tank’s gun is equipped with a laser sensor for barrel curvature, which was not on the guns of the 60-70s, so again you are talking at random. Perhaps this is one of the modifications of the guns of the 2A46M series, some of them were equipped with a barrel bend sensor
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Barrel reference system is not part of a gun, it is part of the fire control system. It may or may not be installed.
2a46m-5 gun on t-90a doesn't have it, 2a46m-5 gun on t-90m does.
And even if it did - it only makes your original post further from truth - since the system in use is distinctively different from one used on Russian tanks (as part of GFCS Kalina, for example)
Given how defensive you are - is that actually your channel? Then the only advice is to start seriously researching your content.
Either way, even if the videos happened to be in English - they're well below the threshold of that is barely deemed acceptable here. Moreover, they are in Russian.
Or perhaps they modified their 'north korean version' of 2a26 or 2a20.
Afterall, changing the 2a46 from 125mm to 115mm is a big change, while adding something on the already existing 115mm 2a26/2a20 is less so.
In general, the 'new tank' that appears at North Korea's recent years of parade, is generally seen as being fake (not everything at display on the parades is fake, but some certainly are).