红色铁骑——中国99式主战坦克/Chinese Type-99 main battle tank
SPECIFICATIONS:
Crew: 3
Weight: 54 tonnes
Engine: 1,500hp liquid cooled diesel
Transmission: Mechanical, planetary
Track: Metallic with RMSh, with rubber-tyred road wheels
Suspension: Torsion bar
Radio: Receive/transmit, telephone, laser communications
Dimension: Length: 11.00m; Height: 2.20m; Width: 3.40m
Cruising range: 450km, or 600km with external tanks
Speed: Max road 80km/h; max off-road 60km/h; average cross-country 35~40km/h
Fording depths: 5m with snorkel
Main gun: 125mm smoothbore with 41 rounds
It can fire armour-piercing fin stabilized discarding sabot (APFSDS), high explosive anti-tank (HEAT), high explosive fragmentation (HE-FRAG) projectiles, depleted uranium (DU) rounds and also AT-11 laser-guided anti-tank missiles (ATGM)!
Rate of fire: 8 rounds/min (autoloader), 1~2 r/min (manual load)
Auxiliary weapon: One coaxial 7.62mm machine gun; one 12.7mm air-defence machine gun
Fire control: (Laser Defence system)
- Laser rangefinder input, onboard computer, wind sensor, and control panel
