An Insight into Al-Khalid II MBT.

[Dazzler]

The overall performance and capability of Alkhalid mbt has raised the performance bar for participating MBTs. The problem is that most options offered by both Oplot and vt-4 are already functional in Alkhalid. The Alkhalid-1 is a great improvement and offers performanceance on par or better than the MBTs being tested. Costs and lack of time are two reasons why PA is looking to buy a suitable off the shelf solution. its not that it can't make it, rather it wants to replace the no upgraded 59s and 69s (250 odd pieces) ASAP.

The offer by the Russians still stands ie t90s. Even though we have alright relations with the Russians at the moment but chances of Pak buying from Russia r very slim..same goes for Ukraine as even though the cost of the tank it self was very reasonable but it has cost PA b arm n a leg to pay for the spares n right now the upgrade is costing PA more than the price of the actual tank....this leaving aside the piss poor quality of the spares n the endless delays....the oplot still has not showed up for retrials n if it does not show up for an other month or so than it might not show up at all as their is no point....the only thing that has showed up from Ukraine is a few beautiful girls though.
So the most likely option right now is vt4 or the copy of t90 that they have come up with or even t99 it self ie if they pass the trials ....
T85 is a stop gap n will be replaced in due course.
They won't be any more alzarrar upgrades either ie its reached its end of the line n all remaining t55/59 r being/ have been transferred to f.c


Under trials as we speak....not passed

Any version lower than t-90Ms is already obsolete for PA and has not been considered. Russians didn't offer the MS version.

 

[BetterPakistan]

The overall performance and capability of Alkhalid mbt has raised the performance bar for participating MBTs. The problem is that most options offered by both Oplot and vt-4 are already functional in Alkhalid. The Alkhalid-1 is a great improvement and offers performanceance on par or better than the MBTs being tested. Costs and lack of time are two reasons why PA is looking to buy a suitable off the shelf solution. its not that it can't make it, rather it wants to replace the no upgraded 59s and 69s (250 odd pieces) ASAP.



Any version lower than t-90Ms is already obsolete for PA and has not been considered. Russians didn't offer the MS version.

The question is, how many AK's are in service with PA as of 2017?

 

[Arsalan]

The question is, how many AK's are in service with PA as of 2017?

Around 350 as per some unconfirmed reports!

 

[Mumm-Ra]

i dont post on this forum a lot but when i do u n the rest must read n listen.

Somebody gotta prickly little ego. Learn to relax a bit. No need to get your panties in a bunch. I was merely asking since we have guys on this forum that have Pantsir, Su-35 and what not lined up for procurement by the armed forces. So one has to be a little skeptic about these things here.

Anyways, thanks for the clarification.

 

[Ahmet Pasha]

Why is altay not considered????

 

[Super Falcon]

I want trophy self protection system like in our AL KHALID tank

 

[TaimiKhan]

wt i tell is not from some news source n will not make it to the news for a while.
plus i am the one who originally broke the news of PA interest in acquiring another mbt n r looking at various options from which oplot was leading the way back than n at the same time bringing all our current t80ud to oplot standard....long long before it became news.
i was also the one who had said that the production of alkhalid had come to almost a stand still at the time of the ppp govt. this at a time when ppl on this forum were claiming absurd no. of tanks being produced by hit.
n the list goes on n on.

i dont post on this forum a lot but when i do u n the rest must read n listen.

Why Chinese not sending a variant of the T-99 ? Or is it off limits for exports ?

 

[Dazzler]

Around 350 as per some unconfirmed reports!

More than 440 as of 2017.

 

[Arsalan]

More than 440 as of 2017.

The production in last two three years (2013/14-16/17)barely touched double figures as far as i am aware. Before that it was around 320-340 units so i stated 350 or there about.
I might be wrong on this but i seriously doubt that!

 

[Dazzler]

The production in last two three years (2013/14-16/17)barely touched double figures as far as i am aware. Before that it was around 320-340 units so i stated 350 or there about.
I might be wrong on this but i seriously doubt that!

Let's leave it at that shall we.

 

[Arsalan]

Let's leave it at that shall we.

May be you want to edit the last post and remove the quoted part (of my post)?
Have asked for mine to be removed as well.

 

[TaimiKhan]

More than 440 as of 2017.

Dazzler, why Chinese not sending t99 for trials ??

 

[Arsalan]

Dazzler, why Chinese not sending t99 for trials ??

They have agreed to it as far as i am aware.

@Dazzler ??

 

[Fieldmarshal]

Why Chinese not sending a variant of the T-99 ? Or is it off limits for exports ?

The best that China has to offer will be here soon....u never know our guys might be putting it through trials in china as we speak

 

[Blue Marlin]

They have agreed to it as far as i am aware.

@Dazzler ??

so these oplot-p's so there just to replace the type 59/69. how many type 59/69's are in pakistani service?
also is it true pakistan purchased some 250 t55 from serbia?

is the oplot p only a replcement for the typr 59/69 or is it the new al haider or is the alhaider the replacemnt for the type 59/69?

what about the al zarras when are they going? and being replaced with what?