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World War 3/Vehicle I-D: China’s new High Altitude Light Tank

China has developed and deployed a high altitude lightweight Type 15 (aka ZTQ-15, VT5) tank to dominate its Tibetan and Uyghur regions.

People’s Liberation Army-Nanjiang Military Command photo by Gao Yang, 09FEB2022.

The Type 15 is equipped with an oxygen generator to prevent crews from developing altitude sickness.

PLA-Nanjiang Military Command photo by Gao Yang, 09FEB2022.

PLA-Nanjiang Military Command photo, October 2021.

PLA-Nanjiang Military Command photo, October 2021.

It uses an upgraded version of the 105mm L7 gun, originally designed in NATO United Kingdom during the Cold War.

Reportedly, this new 105mm gun is much better than the 105mm gun used on the Type 59 and Type 88 tanks.

Notice the U.S. style antenna/antenna mounts. PLA-Nanjiang Military Command photo by Chen Ming, 27SEP2021.

PLA-Nanjiang Military Command photo by Chen Ming, 27SEP2021.

PLA-Xinjiang Military Command photo by Tang Yayun, 26JUL2021.

PLA-Xinjiang Military Command photo by Tang Yayun, 26JUL2021.

PLA-Xinjiang Military Command photo by Tang Yayun, 24MAY2021.

This PLA-Xinjiang Military Command video is about the first deployment of the Type 15 to areas above 4-thousand-3-hundred meters, sometime between 2018 and 2021:

The ZTQ-15/VT5/Type 15 was publicly unveiled during a parade in Tiananmen Square on 01OCT2019.

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