Chinese Type 99A MBT. Best MBT in Asia.

[zhxy]

1. In 99 A vs VT 4, what is VT 4, lacking?
2. Any successor to the 99 A coming?

Type-99a vs VT-4

1. The viability of the VT-4 in urban warfare is higher than that of the Type-99a
2. The engine of Type-99 is more powerful than the VT-4, but the VT-4 is lighter than the Type-99, so the speed and maneuverability of the two tanks is similar. VT-4 is lighter, it can travel over terrain and bridges that the Type-99 cannot
3. VT-4 has more modern electronic system, remote control automatic machine gun, grenade launcher and active protection system (if customer requires integration)

The only weakness of the VT-4 when compared to the Type-99a is that the VT-4's front armor is not as thick as the Type-99a. The Type-99 was created in preparation for large-scale tank battles and head-to-head tank battles. Therefore its front armor was very thick, side armor was thin

China's military doctrine is to avoid bringing tanks into the city, so they don't care about side armor and active protection.

 

[IblinI]

2. Any successor to the 99 A coming?

Type-99A 's design was frozen a decade ago, the successor will be the open secret 4th gen mbt.

 

[Beast]

How is type 10 not as good as advertised? Great tank Japan developed.

Type 10 is not developed to have a first killed capabilities. And you expect a 40tons MBT to have magical armour to stand on same level as 54 tons mbt?

Type 10 - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Don't be hype by just Japan has some great electronic technology in consumer sector and that translate to superior military tech. Tell me why the F-2 fighter didn't become the mainstay of JMSDF? It was the first AESA fighter and with BVRAAM developed in asia. But the tech is a utter failure. Japan end up continue using F-4J and pin their hope on F-35.

 

[vi-va]

How is type 10 not as good as advertised? Great tank Japan developed.

It depends good for whom.

It's too light as main battle tank, too heavy for mountainous region.
Type 10 ground pressure is too high, not suitable for South East Asia, or South Asia, where a lot farm land is very soft.

Type 10 maybe fine for Japan, but not suitable for most countries.

 

[alimobin memon]

LOLOLOL!

Aside ego, how can you prove m1a2 is best ? fighting the ababeel low tier tank or soviet era tanks ?

 

[serenity]

M1A2 has much more armor and protection around top and side than 99A. Also M1A2 has better gun and ammunition developed to defeat best Russian and Chinese ERA armor upgrades. ZPT-98 like Russian guns have more energy and pressure but because of automatic loading, they cannot fire same quality armor piercing round with full length due to ammunition storage layout of automatic loading. Some advantages but some disadvantages. M1A2 is over 60 ton and 99A is around 55 ton. Just like Type 10 is too easy to destroy even from front because of very low armor, it is also much faster and if Type 10 can shoot first and manage to hit target, it can defeat M1A2 or 99A. Many things on stabilizing gun and computer to control the firing is important with this.

So it is no easy question to say which one is better. They have own advantage but Type 10 is simply too expensive.

 

[Saudang]

If Chinese media has said so, it must be.. as these Chinese tanks are few generation ahead of all others deployed in Asia. Even Abrams with all its kill records does not matter .

 

[IblinI]

If Chinese media has said so

Don't mixed ours with your media, where does it said "it is the bis"?

 

[serenity]

If Chinese media has said so, it must be.. as these Chinese tanks are few generation ahead of all others deployed in Asia. Even Abrams with all its kill records does not matter .

Except Chinese media didn't say it. Just some poster want to say it using a media coverage. In these videos there is no talk about best or even ranking anything.

We are not like Indians who say best or give false rankings. Even rankings given are done by personal opinions of some experts.

 

[waz]

Between the K2 and Type-99. The Japanese Type 10 is too light.

 

[striver44]

a Type 10 will excel in the environment it designed for, which is Japan. it would be light enough to be crosses existing bridge, small enough for urban warfare. combined that with advanced sight and fire control.

the only matter is that they still uses JM33 APFSDS, which itself a copy of German DM33 APFSDS from the 80s, it's penetrator is shorter than that of rival APFSDS fielded by the armies of USA, China, SK.

Japan is no place for massed tank battle.

 

[Saudang]

Don't mixed ours with your media, where does it said "it is the bis"?

If not the state media, then why this discussion about a tank with almost nill technical specs shared getting compared to M1A2, which has the best kill ratio after T-34 ?

 

[zhxy]

If not the state media, then why this discussion about a tank with almost nill technical specs shared getting compared to M1A2, which has the best kill ratio after T-34 ?

The problem is that this topic creator is Tai Hai Chen (Austin Powers).

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

Even Abrams with all its kill records does not matter .

VT-4 proved its combat power in Nigeria this year.

 

[Michael Corleone]

How does it compare to its contemporaries? I know next to nothing about tanks, so I'm always up for learning something new.

Watch red effect in YouTube. Good analysis of tanks