Chinese infantry fighting vehicles
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Another Armata or Stryker-like systems, which share same chassis for IFV, mortars, anti-tank gun, MEDEVAC, etc. I guess it is cheaper and more convenient for modern vehicles to share chassis.
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
save on logistics and development costs crews can be trained on one vehicle and then rapidly converted to others. its not unique to Styrker or Armata been done for decades.
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
From the recent Hong Kong garrison open house an upgraded WZ551 IFV that blends anti-riot features with mechanized combat weaponry. From all the protrusions on the turret does someone know what all the sensor upgrades include? Side note: that rack in the back seems like it will get in the way...
MwRYum
Major
Got some pics taken by me on that day - quality has to give somewhat from the originals which taken with D750...
Think this is this varient first seen in public.
If you see the plate that has its model name and seriel number, you'd find this indeed a very new varient, produced in 2014, the "anti-riot model for HK and Macau"
It's obvious that what sets this apart from the standard ZSL-92B. 
Alas, I don't understand what purpose of an ATGM in "riot-control" mission scenario.
Apparently there are 3 cameras installed below the warning lights on each side, capability (spectrum other than visual light, resolution etc) unknown.
By my observations, the day of the open house nobody saw the significance of this; the same night I posted pictures online but nobody noticed; only after that firepower display exercise last week then people began to notice these ZSL-92B not those standard models...that they're customised for operations in HK and Macau - this is probably the subtle message the PLA tried to tell everyone?
Think this is this varient first seen in public.
If you see the plate that has its model name and seriel number, you'd find this indeed a very new varient, produced in 2014, the "anti-riot model for HK and Macau"
It's obvious that what sets this apart from the standard ZSL-92B. Alas, I don't understand what purpose of an ATGM in "riot-control" mission scenario.
Apparently there are 3 cameras installed below the warning lights on each side, capability (spectrum other than visual light, resolution etc) unknown.
By my observations, the day of the open house nobody saw the significance of this; the same night I posted pictures online but nobody noticed; only after that firepower display exercise last week then people began to notice these ZSL-92B not those standard models...that they're customised for operations in HK and Macau - this is probably the subtle message the PLA tried to tell everyone?
JayBird
Junior Member
Maybe in case some foreign backed rioters came up with a "homemade" armored humvee or van to create chaos in the city, they can eat an ATGM?
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
looks more like light Urban warfare then Urban pacification.
MwRYum
Major
You do know that's a 30mm cannon, right? An uparmored Hummer H1 / Land Rover Defender 110 (Hummer is a rare sight on HK roads, Land Rover Defender 110s are not as rare because the British sold off its HK garrison stock as surplus before 1997) were at best surviving a short barrage from a 23mm, that 30mm will chew up such improvised armored vehicle.Maybe in case some foreign backed rioters came up with a "homemade" armored humvee or van to create chaos in the city, they can eat an ATGM?
But if the insurgents got their hands on one of those armored vehicles used by security companies (I don't recall those were rated for anything higher than 7.62mm, .50 cal is the most I guess) that'd mean situation in HK has gone really down the drink - if you have security companies's motor pools and armories are compromised, you can tell how bad things gets - and have to send in heavier formations to deal with the situation...
If I were those insurgents, I'd work from a better chassis, like a bulldozer and give it layered concrete/steel platings, and now it'd warrant the response with heavier firepower...but of course, such measures would only warrant heavier response, and the PLA HK garrison has those PF98 120mm rockets too, y'know.
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Ultra
Junior Member
I am with TerraN_EmpirE on this one, looks more like Urban warfare then Urban pacification.
The ATGM is probably for clearing out a rocket-team nest hiding in the building that's threatening the tank column. A single thermobaric round would be quiet effective punching through the wall and just clearing out the nest.