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Tianrens' Blog: ZPT-98
"According to the article on the ZPT-98 125mm tank gun, the ZPT-98 is a development of the Soviet 2A46M Type-1 125mm tank gun. Is has 25% greater accuracy than the Soviet gun Section 3: Weapon System), and is capable on on-the-move 100% accuracy at 2,000 meters (Section 4: Fire Control System). The Fire Control System has a viewing range of 7,000 to 9,000 metres, can detect targets at 4,000 metres, and identify targets at 3,100 metres (Section 5: Night Vision System).
Still, DongFeng is correct, as confirmed by the article, when he says that the ZPT-98 is a development of the Soviet 125mm. It still uses the Russian 9K119Refleks Tank gun launched ATGM with a range of 4,000 metres (4 missiles per PLA tank armed with ZPT-98), which is the maximum target detection range for the Night Vision System slaved to the Fire Control System developed for the ZPT-98. As is, with 25% greater accuracy over the Russian 125mm (1,600-1,800m), the ZPT-98 therefore has a maximum effective range with sabot of up to 2,250 metres. The PLA tests confirm 100% accuracy on the move at 2,000 metres.
There remains a considerable gap between the
2,250 metres effective range of the ZPT-98 125mm gun and the (offically aknowledged)
3,200 metre effective range of the 120mmL44 used by many Western countries, never mind the improved
52 calbire versions recently entering service. In "The Generals' War" by Michael R. Gordon and Lt.Gen Bernard E. Trainor (USMC ret.), there are accounts of the 24th Infantry Division (Mechanized) M-1A1 tank crews destroying Iraqi Republican Guard T-72s and T-55s at ranges of 3 miles (4,800 metres) as the Iraqis made for the al-Hammar Causeway over the Euphrates River, west of Basra in the 1991 Gulf War. Clearly, given the 2,250 metre effective range of sabot rounds for the ZPT-98, the 4,000 metre range of the 9K119 Refeks ATGM is tactically necessary to narrow the gap.
The performance of the NATO 105mm and 120mm tank guns has (so far) negated any need for them to resort to gun-launched ATGM.
As for the
Chinese 120mm, it was built under license from Oerlikon. As you know, the PLA installed it on various prototypes, but it was never adopted for general service by the PLA, but offered for export."
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