. Nowadays, both the United States, Russia and Germany have launched the next generation of main battle tanks.
. The PL-01 light tank below the original sci-fi and coolest appearance is the Polish .
PL-01 tank is a concept light tank developed by Polish OBRUM and based on the Swedish CV90120-T light tank design. It debuted on September 2, 2013 at the International Defense Industry Exhibition held in Keltze, Poland.
is suitable for PL-01 concept light tanks that appear in science fiction movies
However, Poland only made a cool shell and did not install it in the end.
. Russia's T-14 is the first and only serving fourth-generation main battle tank
Russian T-14 "Amata"
T-14's subversive technology is the first to use unmanned turrets and equipped with on-board phased array radar, but it is not equipped with any missile for air defense.
. Germany's KF-51 "Black Panther" scrambled to debut before the concept car of General Dynamics in the United States, attracting a lot of attention.
German KF-51 "Black Panther" tank
KF-51 is the most eye-catching thing: it uses 52 times the caliber 130mm smoothbore gun , which is said to be more than 50% higher than the mainstream 120mm tank gun in the West; it is also equipped with an active passive top defense system and a smoke shielding system, an air defense roof system, which can intercept incoming attacking top anti-tank missiles; finally, it is equipped with three types of drones and cruise missiles.
. The freshly released American Abrams X concept tank
American Abrams X concept tank
General-powered Abrams X concept tank adopts the disruptive technology of the oil-electric hybrid system, which is said to save up to 50% of fuel.
also uses an unmanned turret ( Russian T-14 in the front), stronger situational awareness and 30mm chain gun RS6 remote-controlled weapon station, and has the function of installing "Jaberfin" anti-tank missile .
2. How should China make choices in these fourth-generation tank new technologies?
Chinese Army's top ground main force - 99A main battle tank
. The editor thinks that the most worth tracking is the active passive top defense system of the German KF-51 "Black Panther" main battle tank.
The threats faced by the main battle tanks before tanks on the ground, anti-tank missile , anti-tank bazooka , and low-altitude enemy armed helicopter .
But now, attack-top anti-tank missiles such as the U.S. javelin and China's Red Arrow-12, all kinds of drones and cruise missiles have a growing threat to tanks. It is unrealistic to expect Russian tanks to be equipped with iron racks on the battlefield like Ukraine. The tank active defense system developed in the past did not include the defense on the top of the tank, and now it must be filled.
Russian tanks that were still destroyed with iron hats on the Ukrainian battlefield
. Secondly, the oil and gas hybrid system of the Abrams X concept tank
In the editor's opinion, saving fuel and increasing range is still the second thing, and more importantly, reducing infrared radiation and noise when using electric power.
. Whether to use 130mm gun and unmanned turret still need to be tracked.
As for improving situational awareness and battlefield informatization level, it is now a common practice. 99A is not worse than that of the United States and Germany.
. How to make the fourth-generation tank in China?
Now, we can track the latest technology of the United States and Germany, but we don’t have to follow their butts and pile everything on a tank.
. Currently, there is only one that can be used, which is to replace the 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine gun with a remote control weapon station with a 30mm gun.
In the war of unification, the People's Liberation Army faced a large number of urban street wars (the urbanization rate of Taiwan Province is as high as 66%, far exceeding other provinces, ranking first in the country). The 99A main battle tank used not to destroy street war targets so many 125mm shells, but it is different if it is used with 30mm shells, and it can also be used in the face of light armored targets.The most important thing about
is the ability of the 30mm gun to deal with cruise missiles and drones.
" The cruise speed of the "Switchblade 300" is 101 km/h and the sprint speed is 160 km/h; the slightly faster "Switchblade 600" has a cruise speed of 113 km/h and the sprint speed is 185 km/h. This is only equivalent to the speed of the biplane when the battle. In 1918, the aircraft of the major belliger countries were about 180-220 km/h. Under the irradiation of the fire-controlled radar , the
30 mm chain cannon uses programmable ammunition to deal with slow and direct cruise missiles. In theory, the idea can be fully fired.
is not only used by the United States, but the German-French EMBT main battle tank prototype is also equipped with one seat. ARX30 30mm automatic gun remote control weapon station.
. As for the United States and Germany, they are considering installing drones and cruise missiles on tanks. The editor thinks it is not necessary.
German KF-51 "Black Panther" is greedy for big and complete, and wants to install everything. As a result, it has created the world's largest turret, and the exaggerated proportion of turrets to vehicles is also the world's largest!
such an exaggerated turret, it is probably not easy to be missed in the vision of drones and cruise missiles
But even so, the number of cruise missiles and drones on a tank's turret is extremely limited, which is not worth the effort.
and it add a few small amounts on the main battle tank There are few cruise missiles and drones, so you don’t have to be as cruel as you can use a sturdy attack with ten times the number.
A 4-car tank platoon in the United States and Germany is equipped with 4 cruise missile storage and launch devices and 4 firepower control systems, but the reserved ammunition volume is only more than a dozen.
The Chinese Army tank platoon can have three main battle tanks and one tank support vehicle. It only requires a cruise missile firepower control system, and the reserved ammunition volume can reach 40 50 or even more. A round of cruise missile swarm attacks can be achieved over 20 kilometers. Even if you have 100% hit rate of the 30mm gun of the Abrams X concept tank, attacking at all directions at the same time, it’s enough to lose one and get one.
appearance should be Gaode Infrared’s QN-506 tank support vehicle like this:
China Gaode Infrared's QN-506 tank support vehicle
But the missiles used by QN-506 are all developed by Gaode Infrared, and the real installed ones will definitely not be like this.
ammunition capacity, it is reasonable to say that
48 is combined, otherwise how can the phobia of insufficient firepower be cured?
US Switchblade 600 is US$12,600 per unit, China's FH-901 foreign trade promotion price is US$8,999 per unit, the Chinese Army's self-used cruise missile will not exceed US$6,000, and destroy an M1A2 with a saturated attack of 100 cruise missiles (US$600,000) SEPv3 "Abrams" main battle tank ($20 million sold to Poland this year) makes a lot of laughter.
Conclusion:
The United States, Russia and Germany may have equipped the fourth-generation main battle tank (T-14), or officially launched (KF-51) or proof of concept (Abrams X), and China's fourth-generation tanks should also be rushed.
However, the technology used by the fourth-generation main battle tanks of these countries, we must make choices based on our own needs, and finally develop a new generation of main battle tanks that meet our military's mission needs.
