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The People's Liberation Army Ground Force (PLAGF) is the sole operator of the Type 99. Three main versions of the Type 99 have been deployed: the Type 98 prototype, Type 99 and the Type 99A. The Type 99 forms the core of China’s modern maneuver combat capabilities, with over 1,300 tanks built for the past two decades.
t. e. The People's Liberation Army Ground Force [a] ( PLAGF ), or the PLA Army, [3] is the land-based service branch of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), and also its largest and oldest branch. The PLAGF can trace its lineage from 1927 as the Chinese Red Army; however, it was not officially established until 1948.
t. e. The People's Liberation Army ( PLA) is the military of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the People's Republic of China. It consists of four services — Ground Force, Navy, Air Force, and Rocket Force — and four arms — Aerospace Force, Cyberspace Force, Information Support Force, and Joint Logistics Support Force.
GL5 Active Protection System. The GL5 Active Protection System is an active protection system developed in China by NORINCO designed for main battle tanks and infantry fighting vehicles. The system can detect incoming warheads such as anti-tank guided missiles ( ATGM) with a range of 100m and within a 360-degree horizontal and 20-degree band.
A Type 59 tank seen from above at the China People's Revolution Military Museum. The Type 59 (Chinese industrial designation: WZ120) main battle tank is a Chinese produced version of the Soviet T-54A tank, an improvement over the ubiquitous T-54/55. The Type 59 was the first Chinese tank ever built.
torsion bars. Ground clearance. 43 cm (1 ft 4.93 in) Operational. range. 500 km (310 mi) Maximum speed. 70 km/h (43 mph) The VT-4 ( Chinese: VT-4主战坦克; pinyin: VT-4 zhǔzhàn tǎnkè ), also known as the MBT-3000, [2] is a Chinese modernized main battle tank built by Norinco for overseas export.
CS/LR17 – Modular Light machine gun chambered in 5.56×45mm, 7.62×39mm, or 7.62×51mm. Export oriented. CQ 7.62mm – General-purpose machine gun chambered in 7.62×51mm NATO. Belt-fed, export-oriented, based on FN MAG. CS/LM6 – Heavy machine gun chambered in .50 BMG Copy of the M2 Browning. Export-oriented.
Established in 1980 with the approval of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, Norinco is an enterprise group engaged in both products and capital operation, integrated with research and development, manufacturing, marketing and services. Norinco mainly deals with defense products, petroleum and mineral resources development ...