ZTZ-99

The ZTZ-99 (also known as WZ-123), developed from the Type 98G, is a third generation main battle tank fielded by the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA). Tank was revealed in 2000 and entered service in 2001 (PLA has over 700 tanks). Main armament of ZTZ-99 is a fully-stabilized ZPT98 125-mm smoothbore gun, fitted with a carousel-type autoloader. It fires APFSDS (could be with depleted uranium penetrators), HEAT and HE-FRAG rounds. Tank is compatible with Russian 9K119 Refleks (AT-11 Sniper) gun-launched anti-tank guided missiles. Secondary armament consists of 7.62-mm coaxial machine gun and 12.7-mm anti-aircraft MG. Tank is also fitted with active laser protection system, which uses a high-powered laser to disrupt missiles laser or infrared guidance signal, disable enemy observation optics and damage eyesight of enemy gunner.