Explosive Reactive Armor of the VT-4 Main Battle Tank

The VT4 main battle tank still does not have side explosive reactive armor up to now; it has never had it since its introduction. However, in fact, there is already add-on explosive reactive armor available on the VT-4 tank. Looking at the 90M Arena, after its second major update, explosive reactive armor was added.
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It is worth mentioning here that the soft-pack explosive reactive armor of the T-90M tank is actually welded on rather than mounted as applique.
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Perhaps, theoretically, the Type 99A tank could as well; of course, this is merely speculation and does not represent any of my views.

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Its a later model VT-4A1, with a bunch of changes, not just ERA. Don’t think the name has been officially announced yet

Better to have as a new tank ingame, more APS tanks for the tree

Different variation of the VT-4A1 not employed, not the same in-game, only on trails as far as I know. My speculation from news medias without local sources, photos and terrible quality videos is that dedicated to Algeria, Algeria is or had trailed the VT-4A1 with this new armor package with great success. Definitely not going to be added, if added in the first place, in the same vehicle, it will be probably follow as next vehicle in the line.

This is the name; however, you will find through certain means that in the game, its configuration is actually called VT-4B rather than the currently displayed VT-4A1. This was a subject of some controversy when it was first released.

This can be selected according to your customization, just like the Su-30MKK, Su-30MK2, Su-30MKI. In fact, China only displayed the VT-4, VT-4A1, VT-4A1 (APS), and VT-4B.

Those are different planes

It will get it when it goes to the Thai tech tree is my guess.

Are you joking? They shared a basic body structure and only made adaptive modifications to certain parts.

I will refrain from commenting on this point. I personally believe that the VT-4, as a tank for foreign trade export, could be sent to any tech tree without surprise, and it should not be unavailable simply because Thailand is a sub-tech tree of Japan.
关于这一点不予置评,我自身认为VT-4作为一款外贸出口坦克发给任何科技树都不为奇,不应该因为泰国是日本的子科技树所以不能获得

I wasn’t trying to ruffle any feathers. Generally speaking the more trees something goes to, the more accurate and the more detail is added. As well as the more it gets. Look at the Abrams- it went to three trees, so of course now it gets more accurate models, more access to certain rounds, etc. etc. etc.

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They share a common ancestor, different planes after that

What you said is indeed correct, but I still believe it belongs to a single model, as this is a different improved version under this branch of the model.

Indeed, this is the case because the configurations ordered by different countries are basically not the same, which has resulted in a large number of different models appearing.