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| I have paid a lot of attention to Pakistan's Al-Khalid MBT. It just strikes me as a particularly likable tank. Everyone I know tends to think of Pakistan (if they think of Pakistan at all) as a third-world backwater, and yet they have managed (with a lot of help from China) to come out with a highly functional, very modern, rather innovative main battle tank, and I find that utterly delightful. Al-Khalid is basically a Chinese Type-90-II (China's standard export model), with imported Ukrainian engine (and a few other components), and the rest manufactured indigenously, with various Pakistani modifications and enhancements. It is a nimble tank with a lot of firepower, an autoloader, and a modern firecontrol system. Kudos to Pakistan! Al-Zarrar is another innovation coming out of Pakistan. It is an upgrade to the Chinese Type-59 light tank which completely overhauls its major systems to modern equivalents -- armor, engine, transmission, suspension, communications, firecontrol, stabilization, autoloader, and main gun (upgraded to 125mm). | |
| HTML | Pakistan and the Arms Trade |
| HTML | Al-Khalid Article From Jane's Defense |
| HTML | Analyst Compares Al-Khalid vs India's Arjun MBT |
| HTML | Pakistani Brig. Muhammad Asaad on Al-Khalid |
| HTML | Pakistani Lt. General (Retd) Sardar F S Lodi on Al-Khalid |
| HTML | Article - Ukraine to Provide 315 Engines for New Al-Khalid Production |
| HTML | Overview of Pakistani Al-Khalid MBT Development |
| HTML | Rumors of Malaysia Purchasing Al-Khalids from Pakistan |
| HTML | Article - Statistics and Developmental Timeline of Al-Khalid MBT |
| HTML | Pakistan Army Inventory |
| HTML | Pakistani MBT Modernization Plans |
| HTML | Opinion Article About Al-Zarrar and Al-Khalid |
| HTML | Pakistani Type-59 Upgrade (Al-Zarrar) |
| HTML | Description of Pakistan's Al-Khalid MBT (biased) |
| India's Arjun Tank Project (1996) [.pdf] | |
| IMAGE | An Image of Pakistan's Al-Khalid MBT |
| IMAGE | Another Al-Khalid Image |
| IMAGE | Yet Another Al-Khalid Image (Al-Zarrar in Background) |
| IMAGE | Excellent Picture of Pakistan's Al-Zarrar (T-59 Upgrade) |
| IMAGE | Pakistani T-80UD MBT |
| IMAGE | Pakistani Al-Khalid MBT |
| IMAGE | Pakistani Al-Khalid |
| IMAGE | Pakistani Al-Khalid |
| IMAGE | Pakistani Al-Khalid |
| IMAGE | Pakistani Al-Khalid |
| IMAGE | Pakistani Type-59 (NOT Al-Zarrar Upgrade) |
| IMAGE | Line Drawing of Pakistani Type-59 |
