Would be kind of weird to add the VT4A1 before the MBT3000 and the VT4, no?
Best I know about recent PLA tank development is the new IFV/Wheeled TD and possibly a 4th Gen MBT in development.
Not really. VT-4 was widely speculated to be a Chinese rank VII, br 11.3 squadron vehicle.
If the MBT2000 is in the tech tree, there’s no reason for the MBT3000 and VT4 to not be in the tech tree (Al-Khalid soon?), I’d like it to see it as a tech tree vehicle and have something unique instead for the squadron vehicle as they should be. That’s just me though.
AFAIK there is none.
A lot of people talk about this picture as a ZTZ99 mounting a 140 mm, but the turret almost perfectly matches the ZTZ99-IIIs, with the gun being much longer than the normal one, so it’s most likely a ZTZ99-III with an L/54 gun, like the WZ1001 has.
Could be a cool filler tank foldered with the regular ZTZ99s, I really like the looks of them and having a longer barrel would make it even cooler, WZ1001 and Leo 2A6 look awesome with the long barrels.
Not at all, if anything it would make since too add the most capable version, as that’s what China needs the most anyways. Plus gajjin has a history of making a large jump, and then later filling in the tech tree with similar vehicles, but tbh the VT-4A1 wouldn’t even be that dramatic of a jump.
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No, the VT4A1 would not be that far of a jump, you make a good point.
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I think gaijin is going add Al Khalid as a premium tank(At least one variant is going to be premium for sure)
So how about ZTZ-99A With soft APS which its can be found on some photos?
Prototype, serial 99A only, without any type “2” annotations
So its can be added into game, like Japanese tree got TKX. 2 11.7 MBTs in China tree really sucks and theres should be additional ZTZ-99A like with ZTZ-99
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It’s hard to argue with this statement)
Do you have any images of this tank? This is the first time I’ve heard about this…
I heard that there’s a soft-kill APS installed in its barrel to dazzle lasers, don’t think there’s any footage of it though.
Well alot of Chinese tanks now have a Laser APS, and you can see it in game usually on the gunner side of the turret, but it’s currently not functional in game unfortunately. They way it should act I believe is that it would detect a laser and then turn too blind the optic it came from.
That laser device is not that useful in reality since it is not fully automatic. The LWS may indicate the direction of incoming laser from a hostile rangefinder, but the commander still has to aim and fire the laser. Plus, it cannot really be considered an APS system since it is not supposed to counter missiles or rockets.
Oh I thought that was a hard kill APS, kinda sad that’s not avaliable, though Chinese top tier MBTs are doing fine as they are.
I swear I read reports saying that the APS was installed within the barrel.
An APS covers everything that contributes to the disruption of anti-tank weapons, I’d say confusing lasers counts as an APS.
Ahh, well that’s a lot lamer than I thought. I see now why gajjin hasn’t really implemented It yet …
soft APS? its the laser against system, but gaijin didnt make it