Strange choice to mount them there. They block the most common locations for mounting ERA.VT-5 light tank with additional sensors (cameras?) installed in turret corners and new cameras on the glacis plate.
ZTQ-15 and PRC Light Tanks
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VT-5 light tank with additional sensors (cameras?) installed in turret corners and new cameras on the glacis plate.
Close-up views of the new cameras on the VT-5 light tank.
Hello! I am new here. I was always interested regarding the Type 15 LT and was wondering if someone could confirm whether the tank does have active hydropneumatic suspension (means it can vary it's hull pitch and ground clearance). Sadly I couldn't find any video of the tank demonstrating this ability. Anyone?
Only some prototype have hydropneumatic suspension, production models have semi-active suspension made up of torsion bar plus lever type hydraulic shock absorbers. The hydraulic shock absorbers damping factor is dynamically adjusted in real time according to surface conditions.
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Thank you!
Btw while you are at it, just one more thing, do the Chinese LTs such as the VT-5/Type-15 have their bustle-rack-autoloaders reinforced with blow out panels for protection?
Why don't just adopt the same much safer ammo storage configuration for the mainstay Chinese MBT fleets as well, if true?
Btw while you are at it, just one more thing, do the Chinese LTs such as the VT-5/Type-15 have their bustle-rack-autoloaders reinforced with blow out panels for protection?
Why don't just adopt the same much safer ammo storage configuration for the mainstay Chinese MBT fleets as well, if true?
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Does that mean the production Type 15 can still pivot forwards/backwards when the crew wants like the Type 10 and K2?
Well it's really simple, Type 15 is the newest tank and uses bustle autoloader which allows blast wall and blow out panel, and indeed it has them. Type-99 and Type-96 family are older and use carousel autoloader where it's non-applicable.
I would guess future PLA tanks would go down the route of bustle autoloader, not only because of the ammo-rack thing but because Chinese 4th generation MBT is likely to have unmanned turret similar to T-14 and Abrams X, rumor is the big idea here being it will be a 105mm ETC gun with performance as good as or even superior to traditional 125mm smoothbore, which then means overall a much smaller and lighter tank without giving up protection.
