Type 69 Mk. II G Main Battle Tank

[khaled_m_ali]

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[Raquib]

Correct me if I am wrong, but I see rifling in the barrel. Only 2 other Islamic states use 120mm rifled guns- Iran (Chieftain) and Jordan (Challenger). Other than that, India and the UK use them as well. Who supplied the gun to Bangladesh?

China.....

 

[mil-avia]

With and without reactive armour :






Related links : posts # 1 and # 46 of another thread

 

[mil-avia]

Visitors in front of a Type 69 II-G tank and some ordnance shells, a soldier describing these weapons to the former during a military hardware exhibit commemorating Independence Day in Tejgaon AFB March 2010, the man at right is a cop :

 

[Zabaniyah]

What kind of ammunition is fired by those Type-69s? Do they include KE rounds with DU penetrator?

 

[mil-avia]

In two columns Victory Day 2010 parade :

Turning its turret at right Independence Day 2008 parade :






In a column Independence Day 2005 parade before adding reactive armour :






Another parade photo (date unknown) :






Four photos in this post. The first photo (largest) shot by Ershad Ahmed, related photos by Ershad Ahmed in post # 240 of another thread

 

[kobiraaz]

What kind of ammunition is fired by those Type-69s? Do they include KE rounds with DU penetrator?

all nato round

 

[mil-avia]

Very large photo of Type 69 II-G tanks column on Tejgaon AFB runway before reactive armour were added, 1580 × 1042 pixels :

 

[eastwatch]

Very large photo of Type 69 II-G tanks column on Tejgaon AFB runway before reactive armour were added, 1580 × 1042 pixels :

What is the function of a 'Reactive Armour'?

 

[Mech]

What is the function of a 'Reactive Armour'?

In simple terms, its an armour designed to 'react' in some manner to a projectile in order to minimize damage to the occupants.

Now, you have two variations of the reactive armour. Explosive and non-explosive....

Sourcing from wiki...
Explosive type.

An element of explosive reactive armour consists of a sheet or slab of high explosive sandwiched between two plates, typically metal, called the reactive or dynamic elements. On attack by a penetrating weapon, the explosive detonates, forcibly driving the metal plates apart to damage the penetrator. Against a shaped charge, the projected plates disrupt the metallic jet penetrator, effectively providing a greater path-length of material to be penetrated. Against a long rod penetrator, the projected plates serve to deflect and break up the rod.

The disruption is attributed to two mechanisms. First, the moving plates change the effective velocity and angle of impact of the shaped charge jet, reducing the angle of incidence and increasing the effective jet velocity versus the plate element. Second, since the plates are angled compared to the usual impact direction of shaped charge warheads, as the plates move outwards the impact point on the plate moves over time, requiring the jet to cut through fresh plate material. This second effect significantly increases the effective plate thickness during the impact.
To be effective against kinetic energy projectiles, ERA must use much thicker and heavier plates and a correspondingly thicker explosive layer. Such "heavy ERA," such as the Soviet-developed Kontakt-5, can break apart a penetrating rod that is longer than the ERA is deep, again significantly reducing penetration capability.
Explosive reactive armour has been valued by the Soviet Union and its now-independent component states since the 1980s, and almost every tank in the eastern-European military inventory today has either been manufactured to use ERA or had ERA tiles added to it, including even the T-55 and T-62 tanks built forty to fifty years ago, but still used today by reserve units.
ERA tiles are used as add-on (or "appliqué") armour to the portions of an armoured fighting vehicle that are most likely to be hit, typically the front (glacis) of the hull and the front and sides of the turret. Their use requires that the vehicle itself be fairly heavily armoured to protect the vehicle and its crew from the exploding ERA; usually, ERA cannot be mounted on the less heavily armoured sides or rear of a vehicle.
A further complication to the use of ERA is the inherent danger to anybody near the tank when a plate detonates (disregarding that a HEAT warhead explosion would already present a great danger to anybody near the tank). Although ERA plates are intended only to bulge following detonation, the combined energy of the ERA explosive, coupled with the kinetic or explosive energy of the projectile, will frequently cause explosive fragmentation of the plate. The explosion of an ERA plate creates a significant amount of shrapnel, and bystanders are in grave danger of serious or fatal injury. As a result, infantry needs to operate some distance from vehicles protected by ERA in combined arms operations.

Non-explosive..

NERA and NxRA operate similarly to explosive reactive armour, but without the explosive liner. Two metal plates sandwich an inert liner, such as rubber. When struck by a shaped charge's metal jet, some of the impact energy is dissipated into the inert liner layer, and the resulting high pressure causes a localized bending or bulging of the plates in the area of the impact. As the plates bulge, the point of jet impact shifts with the plate bulging, increasing the effective thickness of the armour. This is almost the same as the second mechanism that explosive reactive armour uses, but it uses energy from the shaped charge jet rather than from explosives.

Since the inner liner is not explosive itself, the bulging is less energetic than on explosive reactive armour, and thus offers less protection than a similarly-sized ERA. However, NERA and NxRA are lighter and completely safe to handle (and safe for nearby infantry), can theoretically be placed on any part of the vehicle, and can be packaged in multiple spaced-out layers if necessary. A key advantage of this kind of reactive armour is that it cannot be defeated via tandem warhead shaped charges, which employ a small forward warhead to detonate ERA before the main warhead fires.

 

[Mech]

 

[mil-avia]

On a truck side view :


Related image : Ukrainian upgraded T-64B (BM Bulat) tank turret reactive armour

 

[Zabaniyah]

I'd assume the Type-69's 120mm NATO compatible gun is also Ukrainian?

 

[mil-avia]

A crew atop the back of a Type 69 II-G tank outside of its turret, main cannon of another tank of same type partly visible :


Related image : Type 69-II M tank four views diagram

 

[mil-avia]

Five photos showing Type 69-II G tanks parade in 2005 or earlier :













Related link : Gulf War Iraqi armour