Chinese Armor Spear and Shield of 99A Main Battle Tank

As China's iron armour, the spear, armor piercing projectile and shield, armor of 99A main battle tank, which is stronger or weaker?

99a main battle tank picture

No matter in the turbulent war era, or in today's peace era, tank defense technology is still upgrading with the progress of anti tank weapons. As for the 99A tank, which is the core main battle equipment of our army, I believe that many novice tank fans will be curious. Can our 99A main battle tank resist the powerful armor piercing projectile launched by the same 99A tank opened by the brothers of the same "brothers company" opposite?

This is a quite contradictory problem. Our "spear" - armour piercing projectile has reached the world's advanced level, and our "shield" - armor's defense ability is enough to deal with most of the main battle tanks in the world. This can be said to be the advantage of the 99A main battle tank, with the strongest "spear" and the strongest "shield". But it can also be said that it is "contradiction" and "strong meets strong". In the end, "which is stronger or weaker", I think we should be "strong when meeting strong"! But this "opponent" is "own person", how can this break?

99A main battle tank without reactive armour picture

So, what kind of spear and shield are 99A main battle tanks? Some of the "spears" are basically tungsten alloy long rod tail stable shelling penetrators that can not jump; "shield" is an unknown formula of armor, which may include composite armor and armor with pure steel body base armor, tungsten alloy and other materials.

"Spear" of Chinese iron armor

It is generally believed that the 125mm high bore pressure tank gun of our country can pierce the homogeneous armor plate with thickness of 800-900mm at a distance of 2000m by launching the stable shell piercing projectile with tail fins. Therefore, it is reasonable to say that the thick armor of the 99A tank can resist the powerful armor piercing projectile launched by the 99A tank itself in the normal battle distance!

"Shield" of Chinese iron armor

"Shield" embodies the defense ability of 99A tank. The deputy battalion commander of CCTV's national defense and military channel, who is known as "the king of iron armour soldiers", introduced the defense capability of our 99A tank: "the front defense and armor piercing capability of the 99A tank (long rod tail stable shelling and armor piercing projectile), and the defense and armor piercing capability are all over 1000mm." That is to say, the protection of 99A is equivalent to a uniform armor plate with a thickness of 1 meter. This is a virtual "armor" mark. Generally speaking, the actual armor thickness will be far less than 1000mm.

In response, some military fans said that the "double 1000" credit might be on the 99A reaction armor. Strictly speaking, reaction armor is installed on the tank after, belonging to "additional armor". The earliest reactive armor could not defend the armor piercing projectile, and had a better defense ability against the armor piercing projectile. Later, with the help of technology, reactive armor began to be able to defend against penetrators. For example, Ukraine's "blade" and Russia's "fossil" have good defense against armour piercing bombs. Some military fans also said that our 99A can resist the direct attack of the depleted uranium projectile fired by the m256 muskets of the M1A2 of the US Army and the 55 times diameter 120 mm muskets of the extended version of the 2A6 of the German Leopard. If coupled with the external dual anti reaction armor, the 99A may be able to protect more than 1000 mm, close to the 1200 mm level of uniform steel armor.

However, in fact, this is only the guess of military fans. Because we can't know the specific model of 99A reactive armor, we can only infer from the known model and foreign trade model. At present, a model commonly used by the PLA is the FY-4 series, and the latest model is the fy-4e. With the principle of shaped charge, it can prevent and reduce 30% of the penetration depth of the enemy within the normal battle distance. This is a foreign trade model, the self-use will not be worse, which may be one of the reasons why 99A has a strong defense.

Finally, we want to say that you can communicate only when you understand! Communication is the beginning of understanding! You are welcome to leave your views.

 

 

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