PLA Next Generation Main Battle Tank

idk why the topic turned on those nonsense AI thing, I said it was AI generated because I am in the community I literally know the authors, the heltmet one, the scale model one....There is nothing worth to discussing.

A rear three-quarter view of the turret, highlighting its faceted surfaces.

BasilicaLew said:

sounds like a turbine, due to the sound it makes while approaching, you can hear it when the tank infront of it passes more clearly.

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it's not , it doesn't have a high piched whine , more of a low piched rumbble, gas trubine sounds like a jet engine.

for comparison

Also , PLA probably isn't going to field a gas turbine in 2020s the same reason the US next genration of tank isn't going to be gas trubine.
There was this period in the 80s to 90s that gas turbine offers a lighter and smaller powerpack for a given output power.
Also it had more torque at lower rpm , meaning turbine offered a better acceleration.
But diesel engine imporved quite a bit since then , and we are moving to a age of hybrid power solutions which increase the torque.

Since the next genration of tank need much more electricity because of more sensors on the platform.
Most army would pick either diesel +batteries or turbine + batteries .
This however is still an ungoing engineering debate which will have a better balance of power, weight , size and maintenance.
But since China didn't really put point in the gas turbine for land vehicle tech tree ,it makes more sense for PLA to stay with diesel engine given it is more mature and familiar for the PLA.