Pakistan Army's VT-4 Main Battle Tank | Updates & Discussions

[Dazzler]

IIRC the Haider MBT was meant to be off-the-shelf. If anything, I guess the biggest thing of interest to the PA is the VT4's armour technology. It's something HIT could absorb and scale across AK2 and AK1, AK, etc upgrades.

That will help, but i hope they look into the ERA and come up with something similar, or better.

As for composites and alloys, we are doing a good job at it but if a better tech comes, why not.

 

[PakFactor]

That will help, but i hope they look into the ERA and come up with something similar, or better.

As for composites and alloys, we are doing a good job at it but if a better tech comes, why not.

Bro,

Have a general question and excuse me if it’s stupid. But do ERA placed on tanks have a shelf life and needs to be replaced after a certain amount of years?

 

[Zarvan]

The news seems bs
As chairman HIT is always a LT. Gen. from the armored corps. N not a maj gen.

The news is true although I myself is surpurised

 

[GumNaam]

Afsar Syndrome hai bhai.

na bro, he's a good, competant officer AND a veteran, I've known him since he was a 2nd lieutenant. And he's seen plenty of frontline combat, he posted pics in the old PDF. He deserves the most respect & gratitude out of everyone on this forum.

 

[Sine Nomine]

Just check number of guests on this thread.

 

[JPMM]

You may have observed that you hardly find any AK in 6 AD or even in north Pakistan despite the proximity to the factories and base workshops . It will remain like that for some time.

6 AD AOO is much larger, starts from where the mountains end till the land of the rivers.

VT4 goes north.



Ours is coming with 1500 hp engine, as far as I know.

Bingo (Part 3)

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Just check number of guests on this thread.

2 Pakistanis + 1 Portuguese + 22 Indians

 

[Gryphon]

After few years:

Tier 1:

VT-4 - 7 regts (ongoing program)
AK-1 - 5 regts (ongoing program)
AK - 7 regts
T-80UD - 7 regts

Tier 2:

T-85UG - 6 regts
AZ - 11 regts

Tier 3:

T-59MI/MII/T-69IIMP

 

[Bilal Khan (Quwa)]

@PAR 5 it's starting to seem that the PA ordered a package: VT4 and SH15. But in 2018, NORINCO said it won tests for the 8x8 AFV and mobile SAM too, but the mobile SAM went elsewhere. So, did the PA only shelve the AFV?

@Quwa ... Hey Bilal, whatever happened to the $600 Million tank contract between Pakistan and Ukraine? A customised VT-4 with Ukrainian engines - is that even possible keeping in view what Beast said above?

IIRC it was a maintenance/rebuild/upgrade contract for the T-80UDs and additional 1,200 hp engines for the AK1.

No need to re-engine the VT4. It's a tight and integrated package, so swapping the engine out would be a chore. The PA wouldn't have ordered it if the VT4 as-is didn't make the cut, so it ordered exactly what NORINCO brought to the tests.

 

[maverick1977]

wh

What is it in the screen of first pic?

Fire control system. FCS. who works multiple target acquitision either in auto mode to select the most advance threat or manual to find threats yourself and click on targets while the auto loader loads and fires at targets.

One department where vt-4 doesnt disappoint - the eye candy!!

PS: I see a few "specific" changes in the interior compared to the Thai versions. The stabilizer, BMS, looks different, so does that monstrous FCS screen (first pic).

How much has been cramped into this small area. kudos to fighters, i used to get claustrophobic in this confined space of T80UDs. But i can tell you Al Zarrars are no less a beast too with FCS in it. i dont recall if it has BMS.

 

[truthfollower]

baseline AK steering wheel
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Please share if you can pictures of AK gun and gunner controls

 

[Pakistani Fighter]

After few years:

Tier 1:

VT-4 - 7 regts (ongoing program)
AK-1 - 5 regts (ongoing program)
AK - 7 regts
T-80UD - 7 regts

Tier 2:

T-85UG - 6 regts
AZ - 11 regts

Tier 3:

T-59MI/MII/T-69IIMP

Means AK-2 not coming in few years

 

[PakFactor]

Means AK-2 not coming in few years

I feel the AKII is dead; could be we repackage VT-4 as AKII.

 

[Pakistani Fighter]

SH15

Any news about it?

 

[HRK]

Please share if you can pictures of AK gun and gunner controls

already shared by Dazzler in AK thread and new thread about armour modernization, just visit those thread ....

 

[Dazzler]

Means AK-2 not coming in few years

Will come after testing. Subsystems are being readied.