There is a hypothesis that VT1A adds additional ERA to the sides of the turret, but the tanks received by Morocco do not have this and still claimed to be VT1A.
I would imagine it’s the industrial designation, but I cannot be 100% sure.
Correction: After comparing the MBT-2000’s gun to ZPT98 and Type 88C, it looks more like it uses the same gun as the Type 96. This would also make some sense as the Type 90-II/MBT-2000 family was developed before the Type 99, but again, I don’t have hard proof of this.
Hello my friend, i was wondering what round the MBT-2000 is likely to use ingame. Will it be the Pakistani DU APFSDS round or chinese DTC10-125 or DTW-125
I have some documents where name of this tank’s gun is mentioned. It is written as W321.Maybe you are right it could be a industrial designation. Because that document mostly had part number instead of name.
WA-numbers are common for artillery guns, for example PG87 is WA709, WA9049 for the gun of PCL181, or WA717A for the PGZ04A
If the document is the spare parts list for MBT-2000, I have seen those too. They mention WA321C and WA321D, I suspect the former is Type 88C-125. However this is still speculation, so take it with a grain of salt.
That’s reasonable. 140mm gun started its development between 1990~1995, as soon as the development of ZPT-98 finished. The specification I gave above is from an essay published on 1998, means 140mm gun had been made before that.
