Chinese Army (PLA) News & Discussions

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WZ-10 firing weapons:

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Small group of WZ-10

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Turret and main hull of Type 96 (aka Type 88C or WZ-122H) tank being assembled together, tracks to be assembled later :




Related link.

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Small group of WZ-10

WZ-10 firing weapons:

Soon to see them in PA with 70 in numbers. INSHA ALLAH

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If PAC has done some right decisions as well as have money then we might have done a JV in helicopter programs as well.

[Martian2]

Anyway, using air power to smash Vietnamese air defenses is not necessarily critical. China can move into Vietnam in stages. For example, Chinese MLRS has a range of 400km. Therefore, China should destroy Vietnamese air defense targets up to 400km inside Vietnam.

For any short-range military targets up to 50km, China can use the PLZ-05 howitzer.

After weeks of softening up Vietnamese air and ground defenses, the PLA moves deeper into Vietnam and attacks the next 400km chunk of Vietnamese territory.

PLZ-05 PLZ05 155mm self-propelled howitzer technical data sheet specifications informations







[Note: Thank you to Greyboy2 for the post on PLZ-05 howitzer fact sheet and pictures.]

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China's PLZ-05 155mm SPH (self-propelled howitzer)

[Note: Thank you to "ASAT" for the picture.]

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Difference between the turrets of Type 96 and Type 96A tanks :
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Fifteen types of tanks and armoured vehicles :
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This image was borrowed by the Military Parity / Military Paritet (Russia) website from post #54 shortly after it was shared here in PDF. Related link : post #238 of AF thread.

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PLA Hong Kong Garrison：

[Martian2]

New Chinese domestic Kevlar body armor

China has a new Kevlar body armor. As far as I know, Vietnam is decades away from manufacturing Kevlar. Also, the Vietnamese are too poor to import foreign Kevlar body armor. Hence, due to the overall overwhelming advantage in technology, we should expect a 10-to-1 kill ratio in favor of China.

China Defense Blog: PLAMC testing new VBSS body armor vest for boarding team

PLAMC [PLA Marine Corps.] testing new VBSS body armor vest for boarding team
Friday, June 10, 2011

Clear Duty VBSS body armor vest is being tested by the PLAMC for boarding party. It's made by a local Chinese private company. VBSS stands for Visit, Board, Search, and Seizure operation.

The CD VBSS is more comfortable and offers quick-release that the standard issued Type 06 body armor lacks. The quick-release is a life saver if a boarding team member fall into the water. All he needed it is just pull the quick-release to remove the vest (which will be loaded down with hard plates, ammo, pistol, comm & other gears) and swim to the surface.

The vest uses Kevlar material and has large SAPI size hard plate pocket in the front and back. --- Timothy Yan











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This second citation on domestic Chinese body armor is about a derivative of the decade-old Protector series.

China Defense Blog: New Chinese Body Armor

New Chinese Body Armor
Thursday, September 23, 2010

It is based on their Protector line of body armor vest that had been around over a decade but this new version had probably borrowed many design features from US Interceptor design including the overlapping front, side adjustment strips, detachable throat and groin protector, more importantly, the hard plate pockets and MOLLE.

A note on the Chinese hard plate, since they don't have access to the material to make boron carbide ceramic, their higher-end plates use aluminum oxide ceramic but because the Chinese military is typically cheap-stick, most of their hard plates use ballistic steel, which is up to 3 times heavier than the ceramic plates.

Timothy Yan

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Brand new Z-10

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Top Type 99 MBT

Middle Type 99A MBT

Bottom new light tank (for airlift, sealift and expeditionary forces)



Type 99A MBT



new light tank

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Top Type 99 MBT

Middle Type 99A MBT

Bottom new light tank (for airlift, sealift and expeditionary forces)



Type 99A MBT



new light tank