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New Type98/99 MBT thread

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    Re: New Type98/99 MBT thread

    the model likely built by the tank manufacturer were house in glass display case (northern mongolia tank plant) presented to the regional commander as display.
    bustle same as as type-99,to small to house auto loader.
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    Re: New Type98/99 MBT thread

    Quote Originally Posted by challenge View Post
    the model likely built by the tank manufacturer
    Speculation.

    were house in glass display case (northern mongolia tank plant) presented to the regional commander as display.
    bustle same as as type-99,to small to house auto loader.
    And the display 'admitted' the technical difficulty? Where exactly did this 'admission' come from?

    Seems every time someone presses you on one of your baseless claims, we get a lot of talk and misdirection, but precious little in the way of facts and sources...

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    Re: New Type98/99 MBT thread

    Quote Originally Posted by kroko View Post
    The skirts dont seem to be much effective. Looks like they are rubber skirts, to protect from dust. Western/russian skirts are much more effective.
    how could you prove it, a picture can be interpreted in a million ways.

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    Re: New Type98/99 MBT thread

    the picture appear in mid december, I will post it,if I have time.

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    Re: New Type98/99 MBT thread

    Quote Originally Posted by challenge View Post
    the picture appear in mid december, I will post it,if I have time.
    this one?

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    Re: New Type98/99 MBT thread

    Probably just rubber than.

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    Re: New Type98/99 MBT thread

    Quote Originally Posted by IronsightSniper View Post
    Probably just rubber than.
    any effectiveness against vanilla RPGs?

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    Re: New Type98/99 MBT thread

    Quote Originally Posted by paintgun View Post
    any effectiveness against vanilla RPGs?
    If it cause the RPG round to detonate in the non-ideal position (ie. not upon striking at the actual hull), it'd serve its purpose - in theory that is, don't know if that's the same deal with tandem warhead HEAT round type though.

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    Re: New Type98/99 MBT thread

    I don't think there can be any question about whether a rubber side skirt can stop a tandem warhead HEAT rounds. Those things are designed to punch through spaced armor on older MBTs. Even if that skirt was steel armor, a tandem HEAT round will still almost certainly defeat it.

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    Re: New Type98/99 MBT thread

    It might be useful against warheads which will melt and eject armour plating into the tank, if the armour plating were made out of rubber instead of metal.

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    Actually, the value of these rubber side-skirts are more "impressive" than people would think. Especially of these relatively thick "heavy rubber skirts". They do not protect the tank's sides by detonating the warhead before it reaches the essential hull in question, but actually prevent the trigger of the warhead (like, for example, a RPG-7 round) to detonate the charge. The trigger of a shaped charge round like the RPG-7 usually need to hit something hard like metal or even just brick-walls to detonate the charge, so hitting the relatively elastic, but still durable rubber-skirt sections, the round has a high chance to just break its own trigger-cap and fall to the ground harmlessly, or even gets 'caught' by the rubber-skirts. The sectioned nature of these skirts, as apparent from above's photo, also helps to increase its "elasticity" needed to "catch" the round and renders it useless. And even in case the round does go off, the distance between skirt and hull is sufficient enough to render the shaped charge or the liquified metal-jet generated from the (typically) chopper-liner to expend much of its power to penetrate the hull. An air-gap is a very effective anti HEAT measure, as the air-gap could be directly translated to actual millimeters of armour protection in terms of shaped charges, which means those 30-40cm between skirt and hull mean effectively 300-400mm of "RHA armour protection". This dynamic, while not as clear and sciencetific, was actually mentioned in one CCTV documentary about the ZTZ-96 tank years ago IIRC.

    These heavy rubber skirts must not be mistaken with some western rubber skirts on old tanks, that are much lighter and thinner, and only meant to protect against dirt and dust. Above's rubber-skirt looks to be up to 20+mm thick and are pretty much based on soviet designs, who were designed with the same anti-RPG roles in mind.

    The only problem with it, is that they arent protecting the tank against anti-tank rounds that have so much initial velocity, that they cant be caught by the heavy rubber-skirts but just punch through them like butter - or, as mentioned here, tandem charges.
    Also, they are next to useless against chaingun rounds, since they too will just punch through them and hit the relatively thin side hull armour of approx. 80mm (at least this was in the T-72 case and it is dependent on the design of the autoloader - dunno if China modified theirs for that sake)...

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    Re: New Type98/99 MBT thread

    Not actual '300-400 mm of RHA', but more like 100-200 mm of RHAe.

    From Folfanov in regards to the T-72BM:

    side skirts add 25 mm thick reinforced rubber [with steel?] plate plus 60cm airgap increasing the HEAT armor by about 15-17cm against 2nd gen and 26-28cm against 1st gen warheads.

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    Re: New Type98/99 MBT thread

    Welp, anyway. It does protect against 1st generation RPG's and has good chance to 'catch' similiar velocity rounds (so, up to 120m/s) without them detonating. But with everything faster, such as an RPG-29 (280m/s) it would simply fly past without being affected by the rubber a or punch through it directly.
    I wonder If China could strenghten it or make it more robust and on the same time more flexible somehow, to even 'catch' these 'high velocity' rounds... Because, no matter how good a tank is armoured from the sides, it can never hope to resist a direct gun-hit from an opposing tank, an ATGM hit, or one from a high performance man-portable anti tank weapon. So, everything should just be done for the sake of protecting against light anti tank and other low-penetration but commonly available weapons. At least this would be the most cost effective route, instead of plastering the sides full with heavy ERA that would only protect the sides once, no matter if it was hit by either a heavy or a light anti-tank weapon, and then expose a huge gap that is vulnerable to near everything. Heavy rubber plates are more flexible and multiple-hit capable compared to that...

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    Re: New Type98/99 MBT thread

    Quote Originally Posted by Insignius View Post

    Oh crap. First post since 2008.
    I gave you a first like

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    Re: New Type98/99 MBT thread

    iraqi chinese made tank during the desert storm has bar armour around the turrent.US army also adapted bar armour for there LAV in iraq.how effective was bar armor against RPG?

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