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Corrected "Czeslovakia" to "Czechoslovakia", just in case this article is not deleted. (Xenoncloud 17:02, 5 February 2007 (UTC))

Propose speedy delete as of this moment it has no content. If you are working on it, you oughtta put a notice on the page. [[PaulinSaudi 15:09, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)]]

I attempted to move Anti-tank vehicle to this page but accidently moved it to tank destroyers instead; if somebody could help me move it here, please. --Martin Wisse 15:13, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

My my! This page has shaped up nicely! I just removed thie

and a company of anti-tank vehicles,

as it is no longer true. The Improved TOW Vehicle (the M-901?) is now sitting in target ranges all over the Army. It is no longer in service. Paul, in Saudi 17:40, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Is it true that large numbers of M-901s have been given to the new Iraqi military as military aid from the US?

1630 Hours 14 April 2006

Gentlemen. I am a content expert on the subject of US armored forces and TD Forces. Please discuss before you revert my edits.

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Chinese designs

I was previously unaware of the PTL02, but the Chinese do produce a tracked vehicle which my sources call the Type 86 or Type 1986, which has a 120mm gun that is a (licensed? probably not) copy of the Rheinmetall 120mm/L44 smoothbore mounted in a semi-fixed forward orientation with very limited traverse and elevation. My sources differ on whether it is produced for export; logically I would expect such a vehicle for domestic military use to use the Chinese version of the Russian 125mm smootbore as used on all their current front-line tanks.

Likewise, it seems to me that it makes little sense to put the antiquated 100mm gun in a vehicle of new design, when even China's second-line armor formations are mostly now armed with vehicles like the Type 79 and Type 80, which are very approximately T69s upgunned with the Chinese version of the NATO 105mm gun. Putting an obsolete tank gun in a turret on a cheap wheeled APC chassis seems like the sort of thing the Chinese would manufacture for export, but the contributor who mentions them says they seem to be intended for use by front-line light motorized formations. Are we sure about this?

Does anyone have any information about 1, whether the Type 86 and PTL02 are intended for export, 2, whether the Chinese are manufacturing a version of the Type 86 with a 125mm gun, and 3, whether the PTL02 has a 100mm or a 105mm gun?