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Dirty Little Secrets
Chinese Wheeled Tank Destroyer
by James Dunnigan
May 29, 2005
Discussion Board on this DLS topic
China is building a wheeled tank destroyer based on its Type-90 Infantry
Fighting Vehicle. This vehicle looks like a lighter (12.5 tons) version of the
twenty ton U.S. Stryker. The Chinese tank destroyer will use their 105mm gun,
and ammo similar to that used in NATO standard 105mm tank guns, and the vehicle
is similar to wheeled tank destroyers found in some European nations. The
Chinese tank destroyer weighs 19 tons, has a four man crew, carries 30 rounds of
ammo, and will also be armed with a 7.62mm and a 12.7mm machine-gun. China plans
to use these vehicles with its new Light Mechanized Infantry Divisions, which
are similar to the American Stryker brigades, only on a divisional scale. This
new type division would be highly mobile, but would not consume as much fuel as
a unit using heavier tanks.
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