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Russian's T-72B3V has 1150 horsepower with 45 metric tons, and the rest T-72s are using 900HP power unit with same combat weight, whereas Type-96A using domestic 900 HP power unit with combat weight over 50 metric tons ```` and this competition can only be described as 'happy mud running' race, despite type-96A hit all the targets with shortest time and least rounds, and they still rank fairly low```lol
anyway, we sent ships to play with the U.S, not playing with Russia would be very strategically stupid !!
Russia is using the latest version of T72B3, with a 1130 hp engine. New FCS, panoramic system, automatic gearbox... So yes they definitely have a huge advantage, when compared with the rest of the participants. Especially those with T72B, which doesn't even have a FCS in a full sense of a word, and engine is only 840hp. Chinese tank has a FCS on par with a T72B3, and 1000hp engine.
So we have:
T72B - 44.5t-840hp - 18.87hp/t
T72B3 - 46t-1130hp - 24.56hp/t
Type-96A - 50t-1000hp - 20hp/t
So yes Type 96A is inferior to T72B3 in hp/t ratio, but it's clearly superior to T72B. And when we talk about FCS, only two tanks with a real FCS in this competion are T72B3 and Type-96A. Armenia, Kazakhstan and Russia had practically the same hit rate as Chinese team, and two of those countries are using inferior tanks.
Hit rate after the first part of the competition:
China - 77.77%
Armenia - 77.77%
Russia - 66.66%
Kazakhstan - 66.66%
Chinese team is simply put slow. Why are they so slow? I would say that their crews are not that good. Because on the paper Type-96A is clearly superior to T72B. And let's not forget that god FCS means a lot in this competition, because every miss, adds a penalty time.
I personally expected this to be one sided competition between China and Russia.
And now i cheer for Kazakhstan
And here are some nice pics from the sprint: