PLA introduces several new combat vehicles
The People’s Liberation Army (PLA), the world’s largest military, continues its inexorable rollout of combat vehicles, with several new types appearing in recent days. These include a wheeled launcher for the HJ-10 antitank missile, a truck-mounted 122mm howitzer and a ferry/bridging system.
The HJ-10 high-mobility launcher (nomenclature currently unknown) debuted in a PLA exercise conducted at an elevation of 4,500m in Tibet. It appeared in a CCTV video aired on 10 August, where it was participating in large-scale live-fire drills.
The 4x4 lightly armoured truck is a wheeled equivalent of the tracked AFT-10 that is based on the ZBD-04A IFV
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