At the previous Zhuhai Air Show, as the king of land warfare exhibited by Northern Industrial , the VT-4A main battle tank was the focus of everyone's attention at each Zhuhai Air Show.
And at this year's Zhuhai Air Show, the VT-4A tank was reinstalled again. The difference is that this time, the VT-4A tank actually transformed and active defense system was added.
We all know that the world is truly practical and has real results. Only the "trophy" active defense system made by Israel is the product of Israel Raphael. The system consists of three parts: one is the four-sided phased array radar located around the body of the vehicle, responsible for detecting incoming anti-tank missile or armor-breaking bomb , etc., the second is the interceptor bomb launcher located on the upper part of the vehicle body, with about 10 small interceptor bombs installed inside, and the third is the system cabinet and control box inside the vehicle body. When using
, the location of the anti-tank missile is detected by radar and displayed on the system display screen in the car. The passengers in the car manually select the interceptor missile to launch according to the system prompts. Of course, the automatic mode can also be used. The interceptor bomb explodes on the flight path of the incoming missile to ensure that the armored warhead is detonated in advance, so that it will not cause damage to tank .
Judging from the active defense system installed on the VT-4A tank, it is obviously similar to the "trophy". A four-sided phased array radar antenna is installed around the tank turret. At the same time, it can be seen that the antenna array seems to have been strengthened to ensure that it is not injured during the fierce battle.
is installed on the top of the tank turret, with two sets of interceptor bomb launchers with active defense systems, and a total of 4 interceptor bombs are provided. Once the radar detects incoming missiles, the interceptor bombs of the active defense system will be launched immediately at the predetermined position, explode and detonate the armor-piercing warhead of the incoming armor-piercing bombs in advance. The principle is the same as "trophy", but the difference is that our active defense system only has 4 interceptor bombs, and the "trophy" can carry up to 20 interceptor bombs, and the continuous combat capability is obviously stronger. I hope it can continue to improve in the future.
However, whether it is 4 interceptor bombs or 20 interceptor bombs, this means that our main battle tanks have kept up with the world's advanced level for the first time and have installed active defense systems. After all, the new generation of main battle tanks in various countries around the world are gradually using active defense systems as their standard configuration. For example, the US military's M1A2SEP3, Germany's Leopard 2A7, and Russia's Armata have all installed active defense systems. Among them, Armata's active defense system is more advanced, and it is said that it can be used to intercept tail wing stable shell-out armor-piercing bombs .
In contrast, although we have the world's advanced level of ZTZ-99A and ZTQ-15A tanks, neither of these two tanks have active defense systems, especially the ZTZ-99A. Tanks of the same type in the world are installing, at least taking the installation of active defense systems as their future plans, but we have no response to this. Obviously, this is a conceptual problem and requires continuous progress.
However, fortunately, with the foreign trade version of VT-4A tank installed an active defense system, it means that the domestic main battle tank has taken the first step to use the active defense system. With the first step, there will definitely be a second step. If the foreign trade products are used, it is likely to be used in the next self-use model. I hope that the main battle tanks of the Chinese Army will use our own active defense system as soon as possible.
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