PLA Next Generation Main Battle Tank

by78

by78

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Excepplent images of Type 100 medium tank in the desert environment.

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Wrought

Wrought

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enroger said:
Fatty said the 105mm gun is the same 105 rifled gun from Type-15 with minor improvements.

Type-100 series's main requirements is air transport capability, hence the tight weight requirements.

He believes there is another yet undisclosed vehicle in the Type-100 family to provide strong enough fire power to compensate for the relatively weak 105mm gun of ZTZ-100 and limited atgm magazine of ZBD-100

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Dedicated ATGM carrier on the same chassis would be consistent with previous vehicle families.
 
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gelgoog

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enroger said:
Fatty said the 105mm gun is the same 105 rifled gun from Type-15 with minor improvements.
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I think using a rifled gun is a big mistake. Look at what the Soviets did with the T-62. They rebored the gun eliminating the rifling and got a higher caliber smoothbore gun.
 
TK3600

TK3600

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Maybe China thinks advance of ATGM and etc meant it is no longer worth it to use smoothbore to get better APFSDS performance at cost of worse HE performance?
 
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