With Russia significantly increasing the heft of their armored vehicles across the board this once again leaves the PLA as the major arms manufacturing country military with the lightest armored vehicles overall. The day when the PLA can retire all its obsolete and under-protected armor can't come soon enough, it's incredibly sad to see them still using and upgrading Type 59 tanks, Type 63 APCs, and variants of the BMP-1 IFV.
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thunderchief
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Type 59 is obsolete, but China needs amphibious vehicles , and with current technology you cannot create something for that role with much better armor then Type 63 . Basically, you could upgrade weapons, fire control systems , communications etc ... but weight needs to remain low .
thunderchief
Senior Member
Ok, but as far as I know even that APC supposed to be amphibious .
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
I am wondering if we might see a few of these in the lines of Troops.
This video is from December so it's a bit dated now however it covers another major program for the Russian Military
now For comparison to the Existing top of the line Russian AK74M set up
Now were also getting a few more interesting bits on AK12 and it's comming slowly
now For comparison to the Existing top of the line Russian AK74M set up
Now were also getting a few more interesting bits on AK12 and it's comming slowly
Miragedriver
Brigadier
Russian thermal imagers
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Back to bottling my Grenache
Miragedriver
Brigadier
Some old pictures of the 2nd Lada class (proj.677) sub – Kronshtadt
Back to bottling my Grenache
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Miragedriver
Brigadier
Back to bottling my Grenache
Miragedriver
Brigadier
Every time I see this picture I laugh out loud.
Skywatcher
Captain
Well, the current Chinese AFVs in production are pretty heavy, the Type 99A (or whatever its designation) is at least 60 tons (the Armata is about 57 tons, I believe).