21 hours ago, Haswell said:Chinese MBT Improvements
In this update, we are improving the performance of long-underperforming Chinese Main Battle Tanks as such:
- 9910, Type 99: Overhauled the frontal armor in general to make it more consistent and its weakspots more logical (its sides and rear were generally not changed),
- 9910, Type 99: Fixed and simplified the armor layout to remove a number of issues that caused strange penetrations or shell bounces
- 9910, Type 99, Type 99A, Type 99A2, Type 99A2-140: Divided the lower frontal plate into three areas with the upper part of it being more durable and the lower part of it more vulnerable
- Type 99A, Type 99A2, Type 99A2-140: The protection levels of the front of the turret of these vehicles was increased by removing some weakspots
- Type 99A2: This vehicle now has 5 percent thicker frontal armor than its predecessor, the Type 99A MBT
- Type 99, Type 99A, Type 99A2: Fixed these tanks’ gun barrel models
Cool improved protection, they did get a firepower upgrade through changing their APFSDS rounds to a depleted uranium type? otherwise are they light tank MBT hybrids. Jumped on and took a quick look at the armor buff its pretty good.
TLDR: Improved turret protection around the cannon breach against ATGMs, the turret ring under the cannon is now the weak spot, the weakest spot on the lower plate is around 630mm going up to 760mm on the middle plate then up to 850mm on the upper part.
