barbaria

He pointed out the three main flaws of modern domestic tanks:
1. Low cross country speed
2. Lack of means of hard-kill active protection
3. Low commonalities (or shared characteristics?) between platforms (I'm not sure about this one, my interpretation on this might be totally off)
 
He then pointed out three positive characteristics about domestic tanks:
1. Low weight and profile (obviously, when compared with western tanks instead of Russian tanks)
2. First class protection
3. Strong fire power
 
Also, he seems quite admire T-14's design except the X shaped A-85 engine. He think that placing the crew in a separate and protected compartment is a great idea to improve crew comfort and possibility of survival. He also praised the modular design of the whole Armata family.

Recently, ZTZ-99A's chief designer Mao Ming gave a speech at North China University （a university deeply related to Chinese defense industry) about the modern development of domestic and foreign tanks.

1:19 fire on the move at a target 3000m away 

BMC 


 

some more in higher res

Nice! The 54th carrier for the OMTAS missile carrier is in production for a total of 184 OMTAS/Kornet tracked carriers, with an additional 76 wheeled OMTAS/Kornet carriers in production, for a total of 260 tank destroyers produced by 2022.
 
Edit: It seems the total number has been increased to 344
https://www.defenceturk.net/kara-kuvvetleri-komutanligi-113-adet-silah-tasiyici-arac-teslim-aldi

Some milestones have been reached in the developments of the 1000HP and 1500HP powerpacks:
https://www.bmcpower.com.tr/tr/sayfa/22/cozumlerimiz

 
 
   

FNSS STA

 
and FNSS ZAHA

 

Some milestones have been reached in the developments of the 1000HP and 1500HP powerpacks:
https://www.bmcpower.com.tr/tr/sayfa/22/cozumlerimiz

 
 
   

and Altay and LeoII modernization

 

 

BMC

 

Akinci UCAV ammunition test flight, dropping three different version of the MAM family: MAM-C, MAM-L and the new and bigger MAM-T with a range 30+km from UCAV's to 80+ km for fighter jets.
 
 
 

Akinci UCAV ammunition test flight, dropping three different version of the MAM family: MAM-C, MAM-L and the new and bigger MAM-T with a range 30+km from UCAV's to 80+ km for fighter jets.
 
 
 

FNSS STA 

Otokar Tulpar

 

As a Chinese myself, I can confirm "the majority of Chinese ifv lacks a thermal sight" is pretty true. Basically every ifv before ZBD04A (if you don't count export model I guess) don't have it.

ZBD04 (not ZBD04A, I think you guys call it ZBD08？) also don't have a thermal sight. For a pretty long time ZBD04A is the only ifv equipped with thermal sight in the PLA arsenal. For tanks, ZTZ-96A and ZTZ99's sight is pretty much T-90A level (one for thermal and one for daylight, just like ESSA+1G46M on T-90A). ZTZ-99A and VT4 has something similar to SOSNA-U, a multi channel combined day/night sight.

Fun fact: ZBL-08, ZBD-03, and ZBD-05 don't have thermal sight and dual plane stabilizer previous to this upgrade

Cobra II Mrap 

in Kazakstan 




 

and some more from İDEX


 

@İdex 




 
and an oldie, the M24 based APC

 

Hisar's second pulse kicking in during terminal stage at 13:00.
 
 

ERA