1/15/2024 0 Comments Vt4 emilie 100m loopster![]() Two years later, in 2017, Thailand officially signed the papers to acquire VT4 main battle tanks, becoming the first customer of this ambitious export project. During a military parade that day, China showcased their newest MBT to the world - the ZTZ-99A - showing that they possess the both the capability to manufcature and field advanced third generation MBTs. It wasn’t until 2015, the 70th anniversary of V-J day, China proved themselves capable as an modern army. With the tank being showcased, many countries have expressed their interest over this peculiar and ambitious project from China. The tank design was revolutionary, striking a resemblance to many western main battle tanks available that time. ![]() Since many technologies were already available for the Inner Mogolia 617 team, after 5 years on design and prototyping, the first VT4 was unveiled in 2014 Zhuhai airshow. (On contrary, it may be assumed that Factory 617 also helped 201 Institute on the ZTZ99A.) At the same time, a team from the 201 Institute had already started development of a domestic third-generation main battle tank (aka ZTZ99A), which had also helped 617’s project a lot. All these developments allowed China to access the knowledge to build a tank that is truly next-generation, incorporating technologies from many previous projects. It started off as a further development from the previous 90-II/MBT-2000 tank, which had also included technologies borrowed from the previous 85-II main battle tank.īy 2009, China already had two advanced main battle tanks in service - The fearsome ZTZ99 tank and the ZTZ96 tank, which the latter also started off as a further development of the 85-II tank. The development of VT4 was first conceived on 2009 by Inner Mogolia Factory 617 as the MBT-3000 main battle tank, designed to be directly competing with other third generation main battle tanks such as T-90S, M1A1 Abrams and Leopard 2 tanks. * Since many of the abovementioned upgrades have been officially covered by the Chinese Central Television group, it is therefore safe to assume that there are no further upgrade on this VT4 variant.
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