30.09.2005, 17:17
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Zitat:China develops family of airborne assault vehicles
The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) is testing an airborne assault vehicle (AAV) with a chassis similar in some respects to the Russian BMD series of AAV in service with the Russian Army.
The basic component of the new Chinese family of AAVs is an infantry fighting vehicle (IFV), which has the designation ZLC-2000. This is fitted with a one person turret armed with a 30 mm dual-feed cannon, 7.62 mm co-axial machine gun and a roof-mounted Red Arrow 73C anti-tank guided weapon (ATGW) with an enhanced guidance system.
In addition to the IFV, which is also referred to by some sources as an airborne tank, a complete family of support vehicles are also being developed on the same chassis. The first two variants are command and control and a tank destroyer. The former has a higher roofline allowing greater internal volume for its specialist role. The tank destroyer is armed with the more recent Norinco HJ-8 (Red Arrow 8) ATGW, which has been in service with the PLA for some years and has a maximum range of 4,000 m.