For years, it has been sitting at 8.3 without a proper shell, unlike the T55A (which it struggles to penetrate) with its APDS. It cannot penetrate the T-54 at point-blank range, while its chamber mates very often hit their targets, reaching the XM803. T-72, and similar tanks, he can’t do anything to them because he simply can’t penetrate them. If they gave him a gun like the ZBM-8, he would feel confident in his BR, or give him APFSDS that he could fire. He is weak for his br.
Ammunition, weapons or anything that can be changed without being considered ahistorical is up to the developers to be implemented or removed from a certain vehicle on the premisse of balance. I don’t know why are you complaining and comparing Type 69 II A, because it’s technically superior to the T-55A, in raw values its APDS is better than T-55A’s APDS-FS and on top of that T-55A own’s APDS is better than its APDS-FS.
Напишу на русском, бпс у 69IIа пробивает 101мм под 60° чего не хватает чтобы пробить даже т-54 с 10м, ЗБМ-8 пробивает 127мм под 60°, каморник уже не панацея на 8.3, нет возможности противостоять хм-803 и его аналогам против которых часто играешь, единственное чем он лучше т55а это лазерный дальномер, ему нужно улучшить бпс или дать ОБПС с повышением бр
Every time it’s added as a vehicle for sale for the Chinese New Year, I ask the same question on the forum: when are they going to add its historical APDS-FS? So far, I haven’t received any explanation as to why not. I suppose it’s because the developers are lazy and don’t want to waste time on a vehicle that’s only sold once or twice a year by collectors. Developers don’t waste time on vehicles that don’t generate large amounts of money for them.
As you correctly point out, it’s a BR 8.3 with 7.7mm to, at most, 8.0mm ammunition, when with its historical APDS-FS it could be a competent BR 8.3.
An interesting point is that this tank was for a time restricted only to the Chinese server, and its best ammunition was the Soviet 3BM25. When they made it available for purchase, they removed that ammunition (I imagine for historical purposes), but they did not add the APDS-FS that this model would historically have for export.
the Chinese on the M1000A1 of the T-55M under license and under the name DWT2-100
The problem is that it’s Chinese, not Russian. There have been bug reports for years, but the developers don’t want to add this shell for the Type-69IIA
Might be in the minority but as an owner of the tank, I rather it not get the APFSDS round as that would cause it to have a much higher BR. IMO its fine where it is with the munitions it has.
If you want APFSDS from a Type 69, why not just buy the Type 69 II G?
