Hey guys, I might start trying to find any and all good info about the VT-5 and Type 15 light tanks in this thread, as I suspect they may be the next tanks to get added to the game for China, and it’s important that if the vehicles come to the game underperforming that we are ready to act and make bug reports that gaijjin will actually acknowledge. I’ll keep adding to this post as I find more content.
Please keep in mind, I do not speak or understand Chinese at all, so any assistance from people who do is greatly appreciated, and I will ad any and all evidence and details that other people can find to this post!
Shell ejection after firing(0:55) Proof of Neutral steer(3:38) demonstration of turret rotation speed (4:44 & 25:00) Ammo options shown(12:30) Discussion of the Turret mounted grenade launched(14:40) possible evidence of Spall liner (20:18)
Prototype with hydropneumatic suspension, and details of suspension control( it seems that only the prototype had adjustable suspension, and the Production version has Semi-active torsion bar suspension)
Sometimes they will of it comes from a official source, and if there is a lack of any other info. Such example like the VT-4’s ability to neutral steer. The Autoloader in this video is quite obviously reloading in under 4 seconds, so it’s hard to contest that…
Audio usually can be used to determine if speed has been altered or not, also multiple different videos show the same reload speed multiple times. Otherwise to my knowledge there is not official info on the Autoloader speed, so the Video serves as our best source of info to provide. Im taking this matter seriously, so I encourage all to look for actual gold documents and soruces that are publicly available and link them here
machine translation
The first picture： Controllable vane shock absorber and its principle 1-Proportional valves 2-clapboard
3-Through-holes 4-Housing (enclosure?) 5-Equalizing holes 6-blade
The second picture： Semi-active suspension controller, (It doesn’t seem to need a translation because there is a translation underneath the text）
Oh, by the way, the Type 15 and VT-5 are on the same platform, but they are not positioned in the same position. The Type 15 is a light tank and the VT-5 is a light MBT.
I understand that they are technically sold for different purposes, but given how many systems they share between one another, info on one can potentially be used as evidence for the other as well, hints why Im keeping it all together
Potential info on the transmission but I can’t get any hard stats from the last image as it’s to blury and need help with translations once more. We only care about the CH700 as it’s the transmission used on the VT-5 and Type 15
This is the site I use to get a rough English translation. it does a good enough job and then I can key in certain bits of information and send those to multiple text translators to get a better idea what they are saying.
Second document is saying the CH series transmissions have 6 forward gears and 3 reverse gears. Any idea if this also includes the CH1000B everyone was arguing about for the VT-4A1?
Thai document already proved that the VT-4 only has 2 reverse gears with a mex reverse speed of 17.5 Km/h
With the info from these docs tho we could in theory put together an actual reverse speed for the VT-5, but I would really like to know where these docs came from in the first place, so as to actually have a proper link to the source, do you think you could ask the original poster of these docs where they got them from? I can’t seem to get a reverse image search to work on these
What page on the Thai document? Do you have a link to it that still works, I only have a machine translated copy of it. I saw it has 2 reverse positions in the shifter but that might not be how many actual gears it has.
I made a reply asking him for the sources, he was last seen yesterday so hopefully he still has them.
You can read this report to see how we figured out the reverse speed, and I think do to fears around the nature of the document and the fact that people didn’t want it to spread more, some people decided to personally delete links they had left, but it was never officially an issue.
Hmmmm I think we might have a decent chance to get better reverse speed. A commenter pointed out in the bug report that R1 and R2 doesn’t mean it only has 2 gears just like D doesn’t mean it has 1 forward gear. I think if we can get the documents you are asking about that would be able to prove the CH1000, and all the CH series has 3 gears in reverse.
