![]() ![]() ![]() Soldiers can also remotely control the tank to move into places under heavy enemy fire to rescue their injured comrades, Cheng said.Įngineers have also designed a remote-control station that can be mounted on an armored vehicle. The design is intended to better protect the crew's safety," he explained. "In highly risky combat circumstances like a street battle with heavily armed enemies or operations in minefields or mountainous regions with the risk of enemy ambush, crew members can evacuate the vehicle to a comparatively safer place and then use the device to manipulate their tank to continue fighting. WANG ZHUANGFEI/CHINA DAILYĬhina has designed and built what is believed to be the world's first combat tank that can be remotely controlled, said a spokesman for State-owned China North Industries Group Corp.Ĭheng Ziheng said on Thursday in Zhuhai, Guangdong province, that each crew of the VT-5U main battle tank will be given a remote-control device. Note that the special armor doesn't cover the 30° arc.A VT-5U main battle tank displayed at the Airshow China 2022 in Zhuhai, Guangdong province, on Friday. Maybe this is the reason why the current Chinese "premium tank", the Type 99A2 is fitted with a new turret.Ĭhinese turret design. On actual Chinese tanks, the roof section of the armor module seems to be sloped at 12-13°, which would be a bit better, but still not sufficient against modern APFSDS rounds. Given that the NERA plates and most of the passive armor array do not cover the upper section of the armor module, hitting this area with any somewhat modern anti-tank weapon would allow to pentrate the tank easily. In the CAD image, the roof of the special armor module is sloped at about 15°, which would be sufficient to make most RPGs and older APFSDS rods "bounce" or shatter, but is not enough against modern ammunition. Another problem - at least if the armor layout looks like it does in the drawings - is the exposed upper section. ![]() ![]() This means that it is possible to hit the tank from within the frontal arc (where between 60 and 80% of all hits are expected) at a place, which is not protected by any sort of composite armor at all. Chinese tanks on the other hand don't feature composite armor at the turret sides, while the turret geometry doesn't follow the original Soviet concept. ![]()
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