Here’s What You Need to Know: The baseline Type 96 MBT weighed forty-one tons and boasted a maximum speed of around sixty-five kilometers per hour. Where the Type 96 markedly lagged behind its Soviet ...
China’s tank industry is relatively young compared to its U.S. and Soviet-Russian counterparts. Yet the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has launched major efforts in prior decades to not only keep pace ...
The Type 96 (ZTZ-96) tank is already an important platform in the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), and its latest version could form the future backbone of China’s MBT fleet. On 10 July the China Daily ...
Japan has selected Patria's Armoured Modular Vehicle (pictured above) to replace the JGSDF's existing Type 96 APCs. (Patria) The Japanese Ministry of Defense (MoD) has selected Finnish company Patria ...