ZTZ-99 May Use New Tungsten Alloy Armor Piercing

Russian media infers that Chinese newly ZTZ-99 has been equipped with new powerful tungsten alloy armor piercing which can penetrate the armor whose thickness is 850mm.

It is said that China can develop its main battle tank without borrowing design from abroad any more. Russian military experts consider that ZTZ-99 is quite similar with T-72M which was developed by the Soviet Union. ZTZ-99 is much better than T-72M. 125mm smoothbore gun equipped on ZTZ-99 has similarities with 2A46 smoothbore gun. But the technique of tungsten alloy armor piercing comes from Israel. China had ever got M711 armor piercing from Israel before. The diameter ratio of M711 is 20:1. Initial velocity is 1700m/s. It can penetrate armor whose thickness is 600mm.

The technique of tungsten alloy armor piercing in China has been improved a lot. China develops a new tungsten alloy armor piercing based on M711. The diameter ratio is increased to 30:1 and initial velocity is increase to 1700m/s. Penetration is increased from 600mm to 850mm.

Using new tungsten alloy armor piercing, power of smoothbore gun adopted by ZTZ-99 is higher than 2A46 by 45%, higher than RH-120 which is adopted by Leopard II and M1A1 by 30%. ZTZ-99 has great threaten to most of active service tanks including advanced main battle tanks serving in U.S. Army or Russian Army.



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