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Ok, I just learned that ZTZ-99A has worse armor than ZTZ-99-III… this doesn’t make much sense xD.
Look at the sizes of the mantlet weakspots!
Perhaps I should have gone for ZTZ-99-III and stayed at 11.0… shame I realize this 125,000 RP into ZTZ-99A.
I know ZTZ-99A has better gun handling and reverse speed, but a full BR step higher while also having worse armor and still lacking its spall liners… I don’t know if it’s worth it to uptier the whole lineup for that.
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Gaijin screwed over the 99A really badly.
Not only are the weakspots larger than they actually are, you’ll find the hull armor on the 99A is actually comparable to ZTZ-99-III despite the 99A not even using the same chassis.
In fact, 99A which started development in the late 2000s has comparable UFP armor to a 1980s T-72B ingame, which is completely ridiculous.
Original ZTZ99 prototype which began development in the late 90s has already achieved that level of armor.
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when fix, they accepted but no fix of this are there any responsible moderators for that reports? developers know about this problem or no?
They take years to implement this sometimes, just because bug reports are accepted doesn’t mean they will go through with changes unfortunately.
A slight hint at confirmation from CCTV7.
I can’t find youtube sources but things do exist currently exclusively on CN platforms.
However this has confirmed that ZTZ99A is at least planned to mount GL-6 APS.
Currently only seen on douyin.com on 央视军事
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Likely, although no official designation has been given. As with J11A, it is unlikely it is given a separate designation to ZTZ99A unless there are more changes we are not currently aware of.
Btw, I don’t think that is GL-6 on here.
It seems to be a different system, similar to what is seen on this thing:
Also, we call this in China “Greener than a Minecraft creeper”
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it’s just a model for APS testing.
Well we have seen the real thing, be it just a test model, we can be assured that the original pics were not made up, PLA is planning on using GL6, especially as GL6 is only applied to VT4 o far.
this is the wrong part I point out, the APS on 99A and GL-6, are one for export and one for service, and there is no evidence that they are equipping both two the same time, just tested together.
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But new problems have arisen
They changed the model, so it looks better now…
And then after that, cut a giant weakspot area in the turret cheeks, nerfed the UFP armor unhistorically, didn’t fix the reload or the penetration of the sabot, didn’t add spall liners, and did all of that without citing any sources or giving a reason.
Arguably, 99A is in a worse state now than before they “fixed” it.
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The model was changed without reworking the internals. They just removed armor that didn’t fit the new model instead of repositioning it, making the frontal armor weaker than prior to the rework. Its actually a lot less survivable now since they also added the new autoloader module. There is so much room inside of the ZTZ-99A turret that it allows spalling from glancing hits to spread and break the fragile loading mechanism.
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A half-assed rework if I’ve ever seen one, similar to the Challenger 2 “rework” which really didn’t change much.
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I see.
About the reload speed; is there somewhere I might find info on that?