First off I already had/have this on my list for submission as I'm still in the
Patch Post submission mood.
As usual with these things of "
One thing leads to another."-again!?!, there's another associated Chinese tank issue to be addressed.
I've come to the conclusion based on these refs and couple of others, that
DEC 2018 should be the
START date for the
TYPE 15/ZTQ-15 these are interchangeable designations we ourselves have them in the game
both ways which now makes me wonder if there are not
duplicate tanks in the OOB.
I have not looked into this and quite frankly at this point I really, really don't want to for what I might find.
There are too many questions still lingering at this point such as Ammo loadout in general and it's also
capable of firing an ATGW but,
does have it/or carry it?
1. What I know is we'll need two models, a "
light" and "
heavy" version. In other words one w/o
Composite add on armor and
ERA and
one with it.
2. It carries a
105mm HP MG and will fire Hybrid and Standard rounds/
35mm GL turret mounted next to the MG and a
12.7mmMG.
3. It does have
APS.
4. Concerning
TI/GSR I feel 40 as minimum but, leaning towards
45.
5. FCS/STABILZER will be improved based I what I feel the is the final best
TI/GSR number for submission and as compared against their newest models in the game. It has to reflect "
Apples to Apples" in the end.
6. This is a
light tank and the armor should be treated accordantly being around
30-35 tons. It will be fast, but, how fast I'm not settled on as the engine
sizes go from
750 - 1200hp for Chinas tank, and
NOT VT-5 export version for engine size as of now.
7. Bottom-line, officially China as normal, isn't being to forth coming on any of it's military equipment.
https://thediplomat.com/2019/01/chin...htweight-tank/
https://thediplomat.com/2019/08/chin...ection-system/
https://www.armyrecognition.com/augu...on_system.html
The last is to establish
ascendency on where Army Recognition checked it's sources with. A note on the Editor/Writer the name sounded very familiar to me and I couldn't quite place it until this morning. Many of you from my earlier days here might remember a website I used from
Germany that beat
JANE's to the punch among others in the Defense Industry News business,
DEF News. He's that guy and there
never was an issue with their work we ever found. They just couldn't in the end compete (For advertising money.) with the one's I use now. One of the last stories they reported on ahead of the others was England getting rid of their
GR.8/9 HARRIERS.. The links are still shown throughout the treads, but of course, the
links are now dead.
Establishing
prominence is all.
So I'm looking at the related articles and came across the next ref. I read it of course and found after looking elsewhere (OOB), we seem to be missing two tanks, the
TYPE 96A/ZTZ-96A (
2nd GEN) and the newest (As of
2016.) version
TYPE 96B/ZTZ-96B (
3rd GEN).
Now I typed in all of the above and came up with nothing. I did see
UNIT 038 TYPE 96G, to be truthful, I haven't had a chance to determine if this is a specialized "
Command" version or other.
If not, I have my
TYPE 96A/ZTZ 96A start point.
And finally, and if true there's more work here, well I'll just quote from the below ref...
“The PLA will use it to replace the old tanks such as the
Type-59 and
Type-69 models.” The PLA operates over
5,000 Type 59 and Type-69/79 models of all variants, manufactured. Again this ref from
2016.
https://thediplomat.com/2016/08/meet...ew-tank-force/
And if you're counting,
China became the largest single tank owner in
2016/2017.
Well I'm going to enjoy what's left of this evening and said "
screw it" to going back to work tomorrow to be with you know who instead.
Only worked
2 days last week and will only work
3 days this week. man
life's good and I'm just going to
ease my way back into it!!?!!
Regards,
Pat
