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Al-Khalid is modern battle tank developed by Pakistan. I is made by Heavy Industries Taxila (HIT). Al-khalid is currently in service with the Pakistan Army. Al Khalid consists of all the modern technologies required by latest generation tanks
Alkhalid is fitted with Ukranian engine that generated 1200 horse power. It has six forward automatic transmission. Its top speed is 72km/h. It weighs 47 tonnes.
Al-Khalid is operated by a three man crew; a driver, a gunner, and a commander.
Al-khalid consist of a self loading 125m smooth bore gun. It can also fire HEAT and APFSDS (Armor Piercing Fin Stabilized Discarding Sabot) rounds. It automatically load, fire and eject the empty case. Because of self loading gun, the crew number is reduced. The gun is equipped with a stabilizing system which provides accurate shot of the target even if the tank is moving. It also comes with an imaging system which enables the crew members to track down various targets and engage them. It is also equipped with a 7.62mm co-axial machine gun and a 12.5mm anti-aircraft gun mounted above it.
Al Khalid is also equipped with night vision devices that enables it for combat at night time. It also has protection for NBC (Nuclear, Biological & chemical) warfare and thus the crew member would be safe incase of NBC fallout.
Al-Khalid can also be fitted with Explosives Reactive Armor (ERA). ERA are small block like substance made from explosives that are fitted outside the tank body to provide protection from any sort of anti tank rocket. When a anti tank rocket hits ERA on tank body, the ERA explodes in direction opposite to the rockets direction thus neutralizing the blast effect and provide protection to the inner crew members.
Al-Khalid is currently in service with the Pakistan Army. Pakistan also export Al Khalid to various countries like Saudi-Arabia.
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Is it not outgunned by nato tanks?(oh misread, 125 should do). also i think MBT are not very applicable in modern warfare, because they are chanceless against airforces. Very interesting is
the only 3 person crew, the way turret is constructed it forms a guntrap, and i would think one that these days is large enough to target, i assume there are reinforcements, but i like the turtle like model of the israelian tankturrets
better in a modern combat environment. It’s hard to guess wether the AAgun will contribute much to a coordinated airdefence. I think to deal with helicopters it would be more effective to fire shells. The chances to hit a jet appear slim.
Tanks remain a key army component. Every nation who has declared them obsolete has had to munch its words when confronted by a conflict (most recently the Canadians).
The PA tank is a good piece of kit. Yes its another t-72 derivative but thats no bad thing. Even better its optimised to fight in the conditions Pakistan expects to face (hell it might even have been good in Bengali terrain). And idealy its cheap. That means all those countries that can’t bankrupt themselves buying the latest and most expensive tanks can buy these instead of cast off T series tanks from other countries and get a system that will last.
Fair enough it won’t last ten minutes up against a western nations Leopard 2’s, Challenger 2’s and whatever is the latest Abrams model - but it doesn’t have to. No one it could possibly fight (including China) has that sort of equipment, nor will they before Pak has further evolved their designs.
Indeed development of the tank is a fantastic example of how developing countries can get acceptable technologies when their is the will to stick with long term evolutionary programs rather than doing what India did in its Arjun development or what the Yanks did in various programs and so on, namely keep changing the goal posts and get sidetracked by other toys.
Regarding anti chopper work the AA gun is enough when intergrated into a computer controled net with nearby tanks. Also no doubt in the future the tanks will get air defence missiles that can fire from smooth bores, with associated targeting upgrades and autoloader changes.
well i actually dont agree with your point. fist its not just a direct copy of Russian T-72 tanks. secondly in contrast to abram it has all those modern gadgetry that is required for a modern MBT such as vision devices, aiming and stabilizing machinery for long range shot and sealed NBC protected tank body. The reason Abrams succeeded in destroying 800 iraqi tanks in the first iraq war was that the iraqi tanks were not equipped with any of the above mentioned machinery and thus abrams had the advantage of shooting them long before the iraqi’s even got sight of the abrams
No I didn’t say it was a T-72 clone, rather it is a derivative model. This is A Good Thing tm. Evolutionary tank design is far better than revolutionary costs wise. You take an existing model and make it better, keeping what was good and binning what was bad. The C 2, latest model of Abrams (M1A2) etc have very little in common with the precdeing anks in the series bar name and normally shape. Inside they are very different. In this reguard taking the best from the t-72 design and improving the rest is the way to go, the t-72 after all being the basis for the Russian t-90.
The reasons the Western tanks chewed through Iraqi armour were many - not least the demolirised crews, constant air atack, poorer export or un upgraded models and as you said superior range and finally armour. Those Iraq’s simply couldn’t kill the US crews. And the Abrahams isn’t even the toughest tank, thats the Challenger 2.
In any competition bar one my money would be on the latest model of Abrahams. Appart from stamina - the M1A2 rns out of fuel long before anyone else if ot heaily resupplied!
well chris, i guess it is good tht u agree with hamza’s point of view to sum extent, in a tank fight technology is one of the main factors besides air superiority which ofcourse tilts the balance decisively especially if u have tank kilers choppers, but lets not forget tht al-khalid can fire surface to air missiles specifically designed to counter tank killer choppers, more over, iraqi tank crew were in no way compareable to pakistani tank crew, arab armies only wear nice and slick uniforms, when it cumz to fighting skills, they leave much to be desired, so lets not forget the man behind the gun, as technologies in both western and pakistani designed tanks are more or less at par
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