What is a main battle tank and what does the main battle tank of various countries mean? What is the

The main battle tank is a tank used to carry out the main combat mission of the armored corps.

In the past, people were accustomed to divide tanks into three categories: heavy, medium and light according to the full combat weight and artillery caliber, and generally 40 60 tons of tanks with guns of more than 120 mm were called heavy tanks; 20 A 40-ton tank with a gun of about 100 mm is called a medium and light tank; 10 20 tons with a gun caliber of 85 mm or less are called light tanks. Since the 60s, people have begun to refer to the heavy and medium tanks that bear the main combat tasks on the battlefield as the main battle tank, which is the basic equipment of modern armored forces and an important assault weapon for ground operations.

China now has a Type 99 main battle tank.

Because the main battle tank is a tracked armored combat vehicle equipped with a high-power gun, with a high degree of cross-country mobility and armor protection, it is mainly used to fight enemy tanks and other armored vehicles, and can also destroy anti-tank **, field fortifications, and annihilate living forces.

The Chinese Army has about 7,000 main battle tanks, of which 5,300 are Type 59 tanks, and Type 59-1 and Type 59-2 tanks appeared in the late 70s and 80s of the 20th century. It is expected that by 2010 the PLA will have 1,400 88C main battle tanks, and in 2015-2020 it will have 100 newer main battle tanks (such as style, etc.), plus 500 88B main battle tanks, the PLA will have 2,000-3,000 newer main battle tanks, which will become an important shock force of the PLA.

Let's put it in layman's terms! The main battle tank is the heaviest, the most powerful artillery, and the tank that can be shot!

The most numerous tanks of a country are their main battle tanks!!

There are more than 7,000 main battle tanks. Among them, the relatively backward Type 54 main battle tanks imitating the Soviet T-59A are still in service in large numbers, with as many as 5,000 units, 200 domestic first-generation tanks Type 69, 500 units of its improved Type 79, 500 units of the domestic second-generation tank Type 88 Type B, 400 units of its improved Type 96 (also known as 88C), 100 units of the domestic third-generation tank Type 98, and its improved version is the latest Type 99 100 vehicles. About 4,500 armored personnel carriers and armored infantry fighting vehicles.

At present, the armored units of the PLA attached to various theaters include: 11 armored divisions, 10 15 mechanized infantry divisions, armored brigades directly under various group armies, and armored (tank) regiments under some motorized infantry divisions. Of these, 11 armored divisions are deployed as:

1st Panzer Division (part of the 24th Army), 2nd Panzer Division (part of the 12th Army), 3rd Panzer Division (part of the 39th Army), 4th Panzer Division (part of the 21st Army), 5th Panzer Division (part of the 40th Army), 6th Panzer Division (part of the 38th Army), 7th Panzer Division (part of the 65th Army), 8th Panzer Division (part of the 26th Army), 10th Panzer Division (part of the 1st Army), 11th Panzer Division (part of the 20th Army).