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Cheap steel, hot jungle: Why Thailand’s Chinese-made VT-4 tank failed

A Royal Thai Army VT-4 tank reportedly lost its main gun to an early malfunction, raising concerns about the Chinese-made tank’s quality of construction.
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Unleashing the dragon: Type 99A / An in-depth look at China's state-of-the-art main battle tank

This tank might also uses more capable APFSDS rounds with depleted uranium penetrators. The Type 99A main battle tank is compatible with Russian 9M119M Refleks (Western designation AT-11 Sniper-B) gun ...
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Thai Army Launches Comprehensive Review of Chinese VT-4 Tanks After Catastrophic Gun Rupture and Repeated Mechanical Failures During Cambodia Border Operations

Royal Thai Army has launched a comprehensive technical and operational review of its Chinese-manufactured VT-4 main battle ...
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China Has a New Tank That Could Be Used to Invade Taiwan

Back in May, a series of images surfaced on Chinese social media showing what are likely two variants of a new Chinese tank. The images showed two tanks moving in the streets of Baotou, the largest ...
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A Bigger Foe Than Moscow: China Challenges the UK’s Challenger 3

The now-in-development Challenger 3 promises to be the most capable main battle tank (MBT) produced for the British Army. It may also be its last tank. The British military pioneered tank development ...