2018 Zhuhai Show Land Systems

by78

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The two light tank variants... The second photo is a much better version of a previously shared image.

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gelgoog

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It is a shame we cannot look at the road wheels of the top tank properly. The one in the bottom is clearly VT-5 derived but with more applique armor on the turret and the glacis.
The one in the top picture has different looking headlights, side skirts, and turret applique but without a side shot I can't tell if it's a different chassis. It looks pretty similar. They both have six road wheels.
 

FishWings

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They both seem to be different tank turrets, guns, and chassis. Or at least heavily modified versions of the same. Notice how the roadwheels don't look the same on both vehicles or how the fume extractor isn't in the same position. One also seems to have more modular armor packages than the other. The driver position in the hull seems different. In one tank it's in the middle, and in the other tank I think it's in the right of the chassis.

I think those pictures show three tanks. Two are Type 96 derived and the other is some variation of the VT-5 tank.

The Type 96 derived tanks seem to be the VT-4 in the picture above (left) and the VT-2 in the picture below (right).

But the gun of the tank in the background is not that of the VT-4. It is using what I believe to be a 105mm, so it is probably just another configuration of the VT-5. There's also another configuration of the VT-5 that (I believe) lacks turret ERA, but the hull sides are strongly reinforced with ERA
 

Totoro

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Wow, that does look like a bit of an overdesign. Overall caliber doesn't look to be bigger than 76mm. Yet the turret is absolutely huge, requiring a specialized stretched five wheel chassis. And i see no use for such system other than missile/PGM defense or important/fixed targets. So I don't really see something like that having much of an export role. Leading to the question: Is that going to be serving with Chinese forces?

Que the wild theorists though "but what if that's a AA railgun?"
 
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