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Type | Main battle tank |
Place of origin | China |
Service history | |
In service | 2017–present |
Used by | See § Operators |
Wars | |
Production history | |
Designer | Norinco |
Manufacturer | Norinco Heavy Industries Taxila |
Unit cost | $4.9 million |
Produced | 2017–present |
Variants | See Variants |
Specifications | |
Mass | 52 tonnes (57 short tons) |
Length | 10.10 m (33.1 ft) |
Width | 3.44 m (11.3 ft) |
Height | 2.40 m (7 ft 10 in) |
Crew | 3 (commander, driver, gunner) |
Armour | composite armour and Explosive reactive armour (ERA) |
Main armament | ZPT-98A 125 mm (4.9 in) smoothbore gun, 38 rounds (22 in the autoloader) |
Secondary armament | 1 × RWS 12.7 mm (0.50 in) AA HMG 1 × 7.62 mm (0.300 in) coaxial MG |
Engine | VT/E1 V12 diesel engine 1,200 hp (895 kW) at 2,300 rpm |
Power/weight | 23 hp/tonne |
Transmission | Ch1000B automatic (6 FWD/2 REV) |
Suspension | 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.[3]
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