Chinese Type 99 Tank - Newest Armor of China
Western forces beware, the Chinese have fielded the most advanced tank yet! Well, only the most advanced in China that is. Following in the ancient Chinese tradition of quantity over quality and cheap products, the Chinese have developed their own 3rd generation battle tank that they believe is the answer to the Western nations’ superior tank designs. Likewise, they also used their other ancient tradition of ripping off western designs to compensate for their lack of engineering ability in the design of this tank. Yes, the Type 99 tank does possess many up-to-date gimmicks like a laser awareness system to locate the direction of shots fired at it (hmmm….) assuming they don’t destroy it first I guess, and it can also be used to scramble an enemy tank’s optics, I guess again under the assumption that the enemy tank’s optics weren’t used to target and then subsequently destroy it. Among other criticisms laid down by numerous armor enthusiasts, observe the area located directly under the turret, how the armor is concave rather than convex, this design renders this area a “shot trap”, which is a serious design blunder that increases vulnerability to frontal fire, the most common in a tank-on-tank battle. A shot could also jam the turret in this area even if it didn’t destroy the tank or kill it’s occupants. All in all, the Chinese have successfully developed a tank that rivals the western designs in speed, electronics, and almost there with the armor, but they still fall short in the overall design having not had any modern experience with tanks in battle.
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They better consult with you before they design another tank. It seems like they would take some of the things we know about armor and use it to their advantage! Maybe their “intel” isn’t as good as ours here at Future Firepower.
May be new way try get poplation control.One child law back fire on chiness goverement.So may govrement major war used overwhelem these weak tanks
nuke the gook
“Ripped off, Quantity not quality, lack of engineering skill etc., etc.”. Don’t knock a potential enemy’s weapons systems until you have an opportunity to test them in depth. To do so could be fatal. The item most responsible for American deaths in Afghanistan/Iraq are jury rigged IED’s probably built in someones goat stable.
the design may be rubbish but lets face facts, if we went to war, then it’s numbers. Just look what happened in WW2, the Germans had far better tanks than the allies, yet the allies mass produced the sherman, which lets face it was rubbish when compared to the Germans tanks, but because we had bigger numbers we won the day.
So in summary, yeah on a even playing field, this tank will get it’s arse kicked, but when you’re dealing with these kind of numbers, well, you better have some pretty damn amazing tanks that can take on those odds.
No wonder their equipment is getting better. They come here for school, work here in the defence industry send our secrets home. Who is stupid here? I don’t trust them. It’s just a matter of time.
ah finally someone can stand up to the imperialist dogs. Too bad Iraq and Afghanistan didn’t have the same capabilities.
Shermans were extremely reliable and extremely easy to maintain, unlike the nearly impossible to service and breakage prone German heavy field units. China cannot stand up to our military, nor could the entire world united at the present condition of global forces. Calling these tanks trash though is probably a mistake. The educational system in China far outpaces our own. Oh, Andy? The English were imperialist dogs. For better or worse, we are your masters.
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WTF?
EU could kick american’s scrawny army in 1 day!
Americans are morons…. you use piece of crap guns… (m4’s and m16’s) and your soldiers aren’t real men. They are only high school graduates paying for college.
“EU could kick american’s scrawny army in 1 day!
Americans are morons…. you use piece of crap guns… (m4’s and m16’s) and your soldiers aren’t real men. They are only high school graduates paying for college.”
You got us there, chief.
But, considering we’d be fighting in Europe as the EU cannot even bus a company of grunts to Oktoberfest for snitzels and Perrier without American transport, I still think America would come out on top.
Guys… I understand what you’re trying to say, and I’m sure you’ve done extensive research on this, but the best tank in the world and being upgraded even now into a new model is the M1A2 Abram. Read up on it sometime: This thing took an explosive that had the force to FLIP IT, and rolled over and kept going. Seriously. It can survive multiple shots, 3-4 point blank range, the new model has a host of upgrades, including a turret controlled without exposure, as well as an open turret, uses EXTREMELY powerful rounds. Now! The valid opposition: IED’s. Well, those are difficult, aren’t they. They don’t tell you about how many times the Abrams have taken IED’s and continued on, right? Of course not. When they do penetrate, they’re absolutely pointblank through the treads. Who here as ever seen an Abram take an IED from the front? No? That’s because if they’re ever shown against IED’s, they’re always coming in through the treads.
Feel free to dispute me, I’m open to new ideas - these are merely my opinion.
Oh, and Brad - the EU is made up of 27 nations, dude. I think that’s a little lopsided. Not saying we would go down easily, no, you’re in for quite a suprise - we hold the most advanced technology in the world, well, again, in my opinion. Feel free to dispute.
By the way - the M16 is one of the best rifles in the world, and the M468 is only beaten by the AK in the ability to drag it’s sorry ass through mud and fire the weapon. Which is cool - always a nice design feature. And the army accepts yearly 10% of high school dropouts as part of it’s recruitment schedule, while the marines accept less than a percent. Don’t knock them - they’re out fighting and dying and damn it, they deserve your respect, you little crap.
My bad - didn’t read the last part of your post - sorry I got a little heated there. I have the greatest of respect for the marines and the army, and I would hope that you understand their level of skill and ability.
“EU could kick american’s scrawny army in 1 day!
Americans are morons…. you use piece of crap guns… (m4’s and m16’s) and your soldiers aren’t real men. They are only high school graduates paying for college.”
2 things, m4 is a good rifle, pretty damn decent.
Another thing, yeah, the americans are paying for college, but they are real men, they died for eurotrash people like you during the cold war.
Enjoy your “army” eurotrash.