Because your location says moscow. i used to want to go to MAI for aerospace study when i was in high school. but that didn't come true....instead i am in canada studying engineering and hope i will be in military industrials one day, muhahaha. i used to be a huge fun of the soviet weapons, i guess that's because i used to watch lots of WWII movies about easten front when i was young, and i was very much moved by the ...how do you say....that powerful feeling you get when you see endless tanks showing up on the horizon.
yes, i do know the confusion made by the korean and japanese weapons, but since korean and japanese weapons aren't a very big part of the world weapons markets and people rarely mention them, so.....but it does cause problems, like. japanese type 89 IFV, and there is chinese type 89 APC. But, i am not quite understanding what you mean by "any other way to replace it"
and, the answer to this question is unknown. i was just thinking about it on my way back home today. because I DID see it once that someone called it ZTZ-59, but other than that i don't. besides these old vehicles such as type 59s are being retired out of the services in the next 10 years, so i don't really think they are going to make it that way. looking at the other way people had been calling type 59, or 59 tank, for the past 40 years, it's very hard to change. like soviet I-15, I-16, their names did not change after they started to call the planes by the designers' initial, right?
about WZ, yes, it's a very interesting question, i was hoping you wouldn't know it.
WZ and YW are codes for the factories, and the design bureaus, most WZ and YW did not entire service, and when they do, they got a name like Type 85 APC, Type 89 APC. such as WZ551 later on when entered serviced are called Type 92 wheeled APC. and I am sure Z means armoured, and W...or.....i think WZ stands for Armoured in chinese Wu Zhuang, and YW stands for carrier armoured, as Yun Wu. I am not quite sure about that sorry. We rarely hear about YW and WZ now, maybe they stopped using it, maybe the new types just keep coming out so quickly........
keep in mind, WZ are now the new codes for fighter choppers now. the old Z-9, which is the chinese version of french dophine had been mounted with anti tank missiles and called WZ-9, and i just heard the new or.... legendary
WZ-10, is going to be entering services next year. that WZ stands for Wuzhuang Zhishengji.
and the coding system i translated above is only for the landforce, the missiles have another different system. As DF-31, DongFeng for East Wind. and PL-12, for PiLi "the lightnning", FN "FeiNu" "flying crossbow" etc.....
i will post the chinese version of that article in a minute.
yes, i do know the confusion made by the korean and japanese weapons, but since korean and japanese weapons aren't a very big part of the world weapons markets and people rarely mention them, so.....but it does cause problems, like. japanese type 89 IFV, and there is chinese type 89 APC. But, i am not quite understanding what you mean by "any other way to replace it"
and, the answer to this question is unknown. i was just thinking about it on my way back home today. because I DID see it once that someone called it ZTZ-59, but other than that i don't. besides these old vehicles such as type 59s are being retired out of the services in the next 10 years, so i don't really think they are going to make it that way. looking at the other way people had been calling type 59, or 59 tank, for the past 40 years, it's very hard to change. like soviet I-15, I-16, their names did not change after they started to call the planes by the designers' initial, right?
about WZ, yes, it's a very interesting question, i was hoping you wouldn't know it.
WZ and YW are codes for the factories, and the design bureaus, most WZ and YW did not entire service, and when they do, they got a name like Type 85 APC, Type 89 APC. such as WZ551 later on when entered serviced are called Type 92 wheeled APC. and I am sure Z means armoured, and W...or.....i think WZ stands for Armoured in chinese Wu Zhuang, and YW stands for carrier armoured, as Yun Wu. I am not quite sure about that sorry. We rarely hear about YW and WZ now, maybe they stopped using it, maybe the new types just keep coming out so quickly........keep in mind, WZ are now the new codes for fighter choppers now. the old Z-9, which is the chinese version of french dophine had been mounted with anti tank missiles and called WZ-9, and i just heard the new or.... legendary
WZ-10, is going to be entering services next year. that WZ stands for Wuzhuang Zhishengji.
and the coding system i translated above is only for the landforce, the missiles have another different system. As DF-31, DongFeng for East Wind. and PL-12, for PiLi "the lightnning", FN "FeiNu" "flying crossbow" etc.....
i will post the chinese version of that article in a minute.
