"Armor: So Many Children of The T-72" Topic

"In April Pakistan became the first export customer for the Chinese VT4/MBT-3000 tank equipped with ERA (Explosive Reactive Armor) that can defeat or degrade most kinds of anti-tank weapons. This includes high-speed metal penetrators. Pakistani tanks receiving this type of protection is important because ERA has become a lot more effective. ERA is a block of explosives that explodes when hit by solid metal or HEAT warhead used by ATGM (Anti-tank guided missiles), RPGs and some tank gun shells. HEAT forms a superhot plasma when it strikes something and the plasma can melt through most armor. The ERA explosion disrupts the formation of the plasma and prevents much of the penetration of the tanks' metal armor.

First developed by Russia in the 1960s, soon other nations, like Israel, also adopted and further developed the concept. Soon ERA was also able to stop the more common high-speed metal penetrator type warheads. There are now many types of ERA and China does not export all of them. Pakistan is China's largest export customer and often the first to get new Chinese military tech…"
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Amicalement
Armand

I can think of no other tank that spawned as many variants as the ubiquitous T-72.

(smile)

The Sherman…?

Amicalement
Armand

T-54/55?

A whole bunch of all of those !

I hope each of those plates has a "No Step" imprinted on them. In Chinese or English. Their choice :)