chinas norinco new MBT-3000 Tank

Norinco newest production of Main Battle Tank (MBT) incorporating latest technologies.

Specially designed to meet the challenges of information-technology centric warfare.

Its overall performance and combat capabilities are neck in neck with the world's most advanced main battle tank.

Features

• Featuring an all-electric gun control system.
• One 125 mm gun capable of firing APFSDS, HEAT, HE shells and gun-launched missiles, with a maximum missile range reaching as far as 5000 m.
• A hunter-killer fire control system, plus image stabilized sights for the gunner and the commander.
• One anti-aircraft machine gun remotely controlled by the commander.
• An active protection system that links laser threat warning with smoke shell launching.
• Improved composite armour for hull nose and the front part of the turret.
• A new fire extinguishing and explosion suppression system.
• Original 1300 hp water-cooled turbocharged electronically controlled diesel engine made in China.
• Ch1000B integrated hydro-mechanical transmission system.
• Rigid non-metallic composite side skirts on which reactive armour can be fitted to enhance the body side protection capability.
• A fully digitalized tank.
• Inertial navigation and GPS.
• An excellent air-conditioning system, plus a pressurized collective defensive system against nuclear, biological and chemical attacks.

Specifications

Crew: 3
Combat weight: 52 t
Power-to-weight ratio: 25.0 hp/t
Length (gun forward): 10.10 m
Width (with skirts): 3.50 m
Height (top of turret): 2.40 m
Maximum road speed: 67 km/h
Average cross-country speed: 35 to 40 km/h
Cruising range: 500 km
Maximum gradient: 60%
Trench: 2.70 m
Vertical obstacle: 1.20 m
Fording depth (with preparation): 4 to 5 m
Engine: water-cooled turbocharged electronic controlled, diesel engine with 1300 hp
Transmission: Ch1000B integrated transmission system
Armamnet (main): 125 mm smoothbore gun
Armament (anti-aircraft MG): 1x 12.7 mm MG
Armament (Coaxial): 1x 7.62 mm MG
Armament (grenade launchers): smoke 8x 76 mm
Fire control system: hunter-killer stabilized fire control system, gunner sight integrates aiming with guiding, image stabilized panoramic sight for the commander.
Ammunition (main gun): 38 rds
Automatic loader: 22 rds on loader, loading spedd of 8 rds/min
NBC protection: collective
Night vision system: un-cooled thermal image for driver, 2nd generation cooled thermal imager for gunner and commander 

China’s North Industries Corporation (NORINCO) also displayed their Main Battle Tank 3000 the company hopes to deliver to the Chinese Army in two years, Cheng said. It’s one of the few, if not the only, company to be developing a main battle tank.

The tank can reach speeds up to 42 miles per hour with a cruising range of 500 km. It has a fording depth of four to five meters and a trench of 2.7 meters. Themaximum gradient is 60 percent.

Engineers mounted a 125mm smoothbore gun onto the MBT 3000. The main gun can fire APFSDS, HEAT and HE shells and gun launched missiles with a maximum missile range reaching 5,000 meters.

MBT 3000 also features a 12.7 mm anti-aircraft machine gun and a 7.62mm coaxial machine gun. Tankers can also fire from 8 76mm smoke grenade launchers and 4 76mm shrapnel grenade launchers.

It carries 38 rounds of main ammunition with a loading speed of eight rounds per minute with 22 rounds on the loader. An un-cooled thermal imagery is installed for the driver while a second generation cooled thermal imager is provided for gunner and the tank commander.

The engine is a water-cooled turbocharged electronic-controlled diesel engine with 1300 horsepower.

The tank is fully digitized with inertial navigation and GPS. Engineers also built a new fire extinguishing and explosion suppression system.