2. Compared with the European and American combat vehicles, 99-type rely on the powerful firepower and protection capabilities, coupled with years of training to get the vehicle hunting and destruction of fire control and a variety of on-board computer systems, but also barely reached the level of Europe and the United States advanced main battle tanks. But the comprehensive ability still has a small gap, because others have been practicing for a longer time. Now the 99A2 firepower and defense can not be compared with the same period of M1A2. leopard 2 of the latest improvements, and even have a small gap. For example, the armor-piercing ability, 99A2's latest armor-piercing rounds for 1080mm, while the U.S. for 1350mm (the average of the largest data reported overseas).
Earlier models of the Leopard 2 used automatic gears and steering wheels, China's Type 99 does not (99A2 unknown). The engine power seems to have been equalized (reports say the 99 can reach 80 km/h), but it has been lagging behind overseas in terms of the entire powertrain and suspension. Take the fuel consumption, Leopard 2A6 so heavy tank, more than 60 tons. Fuel consumption is only 219 liters / 100 kilometers! The same German engine and light weight 99 type fuel consumption is much higher! This is due to the late start of our industry. This kind of fuel consumption in the battlefield must bring a lot of disadvantages, not only limit the radius of movement of the tank, but also increase the load of logistics support. Japan's main battle tank Type 90 is no better in this regard. I heard that the U.S. replaced the new LV100-5 gas turbine, fuel efficiency has been significantly improved. There are also professionals who point out that Chinese tanks are less capable of night fighting, and their night vision system observation capability is two to three hundred meters less than those of Europe and the United States. Fatal gap! There is a laser suppression system, but the practicality and reliability are yet to be verified. And so on and so forth.
Not that the Type 99 is useless, but it's by no means as good as the amateur articles make it out to be. The Type 99 is based on Russian tanks, and it does surpass its predecessor's improved version in some ways (and only in some ways), and the tanks that came out of this development have seen a lot of lack of consideration for ergonomics and fuel economy. China has made a lot of improvements, but still not as perfect as those developed countries in Europe and America. Moreover, the scope of improvement is limited, just look at the chassis. If you want to see the real gap between it and the developed countries, you can take China's automobile industry and foreign automobile industry comprehensive strength comparison to do reference. Where the gap between them is, the gap between the tanks is almost there. China built the Type 99 with "fetishism", although foreign countries also have "fetishism", but China's "fetish" component is too high. 99 type above a lot is to take others to improve or copy (it is said that they are not even the same). Or copied (it is said that even the laser suppression system is something in the Russian laboratory). Overall, in the R & D concept and R & D strength and the entire industrial base are behind Europe and the United States in the case, by the spirit of hard work and tenacity to build out of the 99, indeed, in some aspects of the higher scores, but in the overall level of design is still lagging behind, and may be some of the details are often the key to victory! In fact, China has also risen to catch up, for example, the new digital combat information system has solved the previous 99's lack of communication capabilities, greatly improving the battlefield intelligence **** enjoyment and the role of the chain of command, which is the 99's combat effectiveness of the enhancement of the obvious.
3. As for the ranking in the world is really not good to say, the top five may not enter. Now China has been in the development of the next generation of tanks, is said to be all-round protection, and the ability of the air, as well as it look forward to it