Posted on 11/05/2014 2:47:58 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
Pakistan is looking forward to testing its MBT3000 main battle tank designed by China North Industries Corporation based in Beijing this month, according to Kanwa Defense Review, a Chinese-language military magazine based in Canada.
Unlike the older AL-Khali or MBT2000, the MBT3000 is installed with a 1300 horsepower diesel engine manufactured in China. This is slightly more powerful than the engine currently used by the Type 99G, the most advanced main battle tank used by the People's Liberation Army, with 1280hp. It indicates that the MBT3000 developed for the overseas market is indeed the most powerful tank made in China.
The MBT3000 also beats the Type 99G in other design aspects, Kanwa said. The tank has a remote-controlled 12.7mm machine gun which the Type 99G does not have. Furthermore, the thermal imaging systems designed for the export version of the MBT3000 is a generation ahead of the ones developed for the domestic version of the MBT3000 and the Type 99G. Kanwa said the 125mm main gun of the MBT3000 can fire the 125mm Gun anti-armor missle known as the PG7.
Introduced from Russia, the PG7 allows the MBT3000 to hit targets five kilometers away and can penetrate 240mm rolled armor. In tests, the MBT3000 could fire three missiles in a minute. As for regular tank ammunition, the auto loader of the MBT3000 enables the tank to fire eight rounds a minute, making it China's most advanced and powerful tank at present.
I would not want to depend on a Chinese built engine. Bet there will be major mechanical issues with this one
Look around you in America. In any store.
EVERY SINGLE THING IS MADE IN CHINA.
We need to bring back manufacturing. Stop training, and building up, China.
Build up America.
Time to lower the corporate tax rate, reduce the crushing burden of Federal regulation and protect America’s wealth-producers from arbitrary confiscation of their assets.
gee, that looks familiar.
Thought the same thing headstamp!
Cheap consumer goods are made in China, but the important stuff that has to be reliable is still made here.
I don’t agree.
America is sending everything to China.
Bring it back. We have gone completely overboard. Nobody is saying it, but we have sold out our very own country.
BRING BACK JOBS.
“I would not want to depend on a Chinese built engine. Bet there will be major mechanical issues with this one”
China can and does build very high quality equipment if the customer is willing to pay for it.
We are seeing mostly cheap junk in the US because that is what the importers are asking for.
The 2 Chinese engines I own are every bit as good as similar US made engines, and are better in some respects, having been recently designed and not hindered by being chained to decades old design and manufacturing equipment.
China just had a vehicle orbit the moon and return. The US just had 2 catastrophic space related failures. The future is not the past.
Let's put this in perspective, please:
1) The Chinese venture was a government venture, while both US space ships were private ventures. Huge difference in the capitalization and development of it all.
2) The technical differences between the Chines moon orbit and the Virgin space plane are magnitudes apart in difficulty.
3)As far as the cargo rocket exploding, it happens all the time, and a gaurentee you that it has happened more than once on Chinese launch pads, and will happen again.
The chinese are rapidly improving much like the Japanese did in the 60’s and 70’s. We are Rome in the later stages unless we correct our course.
Just what I was thinking.
Not a huge difference. “Gov’t program” still uses private labort. Same in China as here.
If US manufacturing is so great, why is the smart phone in your pocket and the tablet you are reading all made in China?
Discounting China’s space program is like discounting NASA in the 60s. Both are organizations that attracted the best and brightest the country had to offer. NASA is now nothing but a welfare, make work entity, China is an up and coming force.
as for:
“3)As far as the cargo rocket exploding, it happens all the time, and a gaurentee you that it has happened more than once on Chinese launch pads, and will happen again.”
I guess US Rocket Scientists haven’t benefited from the 70 YEARS of US research and experience if they are still blowing up their products regularly.
As far as your comment about manufacutring, I didn't mention it. Since you did, though, point out one thing the Chinese have not stolen, er I mean been handed. I mean one thing they developed on their own. There has always been technology sharing; ideas spread, that's what they do. Even with that, the Chinese have stolen, bought, or been handed every high tech thing they have.
If not for the West's suicidal tendencdies, China would still be wallowing in the aftemath of the Mao's Great Revolution. You'll not find a bigger supporter of reshoring, than me. That is as long as it is done by creating a climate in which companies willingly come here. If it entails calling companies that off-shore unpatriotic, and trying to legislate their staying; well I'd just as soon see the US fail than have that be our policy.
With the US having the world’s highest corporate tax rate, re-shoring will never happen.
Last night’s election results are just a baby step toward where we need to go. The TEA party ideals are a bigger step, but even more needs to be done to return the US to where it once was.
PC, quotas, and affirmative action need to go to history’s dust bin. Real education and proven ability need to mean something again.
Don’t forget, Greece, Italy, and Spain were once world powers and ruled the “known” world, each in their time. Each is just a history footnote now, with 2 of them approaching 3 rd world status.
It can happen to the US
Let’s buy one and cut it apart and see what it is made of. The Russians exported a lot of tanks, too. Let the buyer beware.
It looks like almost every MBT made by many different countries. Most of them look similar, not just the M1
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