Does it come with a phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range?
Looks like the perfect LAV to use against your own population in a Communist country.
It slices! It dices! It can make fries and filet a fish!
1) That’s not a tank
2) That’s a chain gun, not a typical cannon you’d see on a main battle tank
3) It looks like a low-profile version of the Bradley except for that weird sight popping up really high in the center of the vehicle (and it doesn’t appear capable of hauling dismounts). Obviously it’s meant for peaking over an IV line for recon purposes, but it also makes it a great target for small arms fire
4) That’s not a tank
Perfect for those morning commutes on I-95...
The article call the Russian version a BMP-T. Those aren’t BMP road wheels, though. Looks like it’s riding on a shortened T-72 chassis; 5 road wheels, vs 6. Just an observation I find interesting.
Just more things to break
Cool bullet magnet.
The Chinese displayed this at an air show?
No no no......
Planes.....you show planes at an air show.
What do the Chinese bring to car shows?
An orange squeezer?
Somebody needs to explain marketing to them.
TOW bait...
BTTT
Not clear why one vehicle needs so many different weapons.
The article points out situations best intended for one weapon type don’t optimize a different weapon.
We could add, what are the chances all weapons will function optimally all the time?
My thought would be that two or more specialty vehicles might better accomplish a wider range of missions.
Neah.
Has more in common with the Wirbelwind - a quad 20mm AA gun. You could shoot at the Typhoons as they rocketed you, and suppress infantry with it.
This “thing” is designed to shoot down aircraft (SAMs and autocannon), hit tanks at long range (ATGMs), kill soft skinned and light AFVs (autocannon), and suppress infantry (autocannon, MGs, and auto-grenade launchers).
If I understand correctly, the “tank support vehicle” is supposed to help tanks operate when they lack infantry support.
And of course, the Sov, er, Russians are ahead of them on this.
Missiles and rockets have reduced the role of armor. This Chinese rig looks like a Bradley with extra bolt-on trinkets.
Popular Mechanics sure seems to be writing a lot of glowing articles about the Chinese military lately...
Did Hillary sell them the technology?