Tanzania is very similar to the Chinese People's Liberation Army in terms of strategic and tactical weapons and equipment and management system, so it is called "East African Liberation Army" by many people. On February 6, 2018, the $30 million Tanzania Military Training Center, which was built with Chinese assistance, was officially established to provide modern military training for the Tanzania People's Defence Force, and the Tanzania Military Academy (TMA) was established to provide indigenous officer training for Tanzania, which is even more authentic. Tanzania is one of the least developed countries in the world, the economy is dominated by agriculture, accounting for 85% of the country's exports, half of the country's gross domestic product, the industry is limited to light industry consumer goods and auxiliary agricultural production, in 2020, Tanzania's GDP (US dollar units) is 62.41 billion US dollars; the growth rate is only 2%. Therefore, the country's military expenditure is relatively tight. In recent years, Tanzania has purchased a variety of military equipment from China, including 24 Type 63A amphibious tanks, 12 07PA 120 mm self-propelled mortars, FB-6A short-range air defense systems and A100 300 mm long-range multiple rocket launchers, 30 59G tanks, 14 F-7TN fighters, 6 K-8 trainers, 10 WZ-551 armored transport vehicles, 2 Type 037 gunboats, ZFB-05 armored personnel carriers, Type 79 and Type 84A boats and bridge vehicles, etc. It can be said that it is fully mechanized. The biggest problem now is that the Air Force is still relatively backward, so the Tanzanian Army General has also visited the Dragon dragon, and there may be orders in the future. In terms of long-range anti-aircraft missiles, they also use sam 6, so they will need to import hongqi-16 or higher hongqi 22 to strengthen defense in the future, and it seems that orders will continue to come.
The Tanzanian government held a military parade at the Uhuru National Stadium in Dar es Salaam on the 9th to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Tanganyika's independence from colonial rule, which was historically gained independence from British colonial rule on December 9, 1961, and merged with Zanzibar in 1964 to form the United Republic of Tanzania. Tanzanian President Hassan reviewed honor guards made up of the army and police and watched air, army, navy and marine corps performances. During the celebration, the Tanzanian Army showed the foreign trade version of the VT-2 main battle tank for the first time, which was also the first export of the tank, which has been painted with Tanzania's unique camouflage and carried by Iveco trailers.
The VT-2 tank weighs 42.8 tons, has a total length (gun forward/backward) 10.49 m/9.34 m, is 3.4 m wide, has a skirt width of 3.48 m, is 2.34 m high, and is fitted with a 12/150ZL-1 type 800 hp (588 kW) water-cooled turbocharged engine + manual mechanical transmission, torsion bar suspension, so that the tonpower ratio reaches 18.7 hp / ton, the maximum road speed reaches 57 km / h, the maximum cross-country speed is 30-40 km / h, and the range is 500 km , gradient 60%, roll gradient 40%, installed with a 48 times diameter 125mm main gun, a 12.7 mm anti-aircraft machine gun, a 7.62 mm coaxial machine gun, 2x6 smoke grenade launcher, 125mm gun using 22 rounds of ammunition capacity of the second-generation automatic loader and two-way stabilization system, the rate of fire 8 rounds / min, 40 rounds of spare ammunition, replaced by a 600 mm penetration of BAT-4 foreign trade shells and artillery missiles, the use of anti-stability image fire control system and thermal imager, mirror stabilization, mirror stabilization, The eyepiece end is fixed, and no matter how bumpy the tank is, the gun commander can get a stable image and comfortably carry out aiming operations. In terms of protection, the front of the turret and the front of the hull using the VT-2 are equipped with composite armor, and the wedge-shaped armor defense component composed of FY-4 reactive armor is attached. Composite armor, frontal anti-penetration ability of 500 mm RHA, anti-breaking ability of 800 mm RHA, but also installed in the car fire suppression system, three prevention system, it can be said that its performance is still remarkable.
96A in the tank biathlon held in Russia has played a very smooth motion to static 4 rounds, there is no need to slow down, reflecting the technical advantages of a powerful fire control system, and even forcing Russia to change the rules, the foreign trade version is naturally not inferior, and the latest technology will be applied in all aspects. The biggest problem with the VT-2 tank is that there is only a simple white light channel commander observation mirror on the commander's command tower, which only plays a role in increasing the magnification, or the commander himself rotates to obtain a larger observation range, but then again, this is also a major feature of low-end goods, to know that we also have high-end VT4 tanks, there are money such as Nigeria and Thailand naturally buy high-end fully equipped, like Tanzania, even 59G tanks can be accepted, even remote control weapon stations are not willing to buy, not to mention the small problem of the captain's peripheral mirror. The introduction of the VT-2 is obviously in response to uganda's 85-IIM tanks, Russian-made T-90S and T-72B tanks, kenya's Ukrainian version of the T-72 main battle tank, although it is not known the number of its purchases, but in terms of performance, it can completely crush the periphery. I hope that the VT-2 tank can continue to write brilliantly in a foreign country!