well, jet engine is the crown of industry ...if one country were able to manufacture top jet engine, the the country would be top tech-leader in the world....so it is normal that China-made engine can not match USA or EU,when CHina is not world tech leader,yet.
Wrong, jet engine from mechanical point of view is one of the simplest engines ever made, the problem is quality, Chinese products are famous for their, actually non existing quality.
without Mao zedong, CHina would be as weak as India and has not its own industry chains.
So you actually support man that inspired genocide of your own nation? Interesting, maybe you should ask yourself if you are a patriot, or even Chinese, or you are just like that bunch of criminals from CPC that is rulling your country, and just like Mao, didn't hesitate to attack their own nation when there was even a single sign of different opinion between citizens and goverment.
Tired of explaining why China can't make penetrators with more than 650 mm penetration. @methos, @militarysta, @Damian, @pmaitra, Read my previous posts and please back me up.
But we back you up. It is obvious for any sentient life form, that due to physical dimensions, it is not possible or incredibly difficult with existing technology, if someone is not capable to understand it, consider he might actually not be sentient life form.
Well,860mm piercing with tungten one and 960mm with dp one is old data of t99 at least 3~4years ago. In fact,if necessory,china cound have set 140mm cannon for its new tank,but chinese engineer think 125mm cannon can pentrate all other tank already and it is unnecessory to use 140mm one.
And again bollocks.
Let's clear here some things.
First question, can you think rationally and with use of logic? Yes? No?
Second question, do you understand that claims of some people does not mean they say truth? Yes? No?
Because how Chinese engineer can think his ammunition can penetrate (or properly perforate) all other tanks, if he never actually tested them against such ammunition? China never had the same capabilities like NATO to purchase many different weapon systems across the globe for tests, especially USA do it regularly if and when possible.
Third question, do you understand that penetration capabilities of APFSDS ammunition, greatly depends on penetrator lenght, diameter, ratio between both, if you can't place long enough penetrator due to hull and autoloader physical dimensions, you can't achieve such penetration levels. It is simple, really simple... at least for sentient life form.
As for installing 140mm or bigger gun, again you completely do not understand what it means for vehicle itself.
It is possible that vehicle will sustain recoil of such gun? It is possible to place such big gun inside of turret? Will stabilization system handle such gun?
And also take in to consideration dimensions of ammunition and where you will place it, in autoloader? Ok but it is designed for 125mm ammunition, it can't handle much bigger 140mm or 150+mm, so you need new autoloader, but if you will place inside existing hull, it means ammunition quantity reduction.
Bigger gun and bigger ammunition also means more weight, more weight means that vehicle might loss it's mobility characteristics, and to retake them, you need a stronger engine, new transmission, probably suspension modifications.
In the end it is immposible and not cost effectiv to place such gun in existing design, and it will become more and more obvious that it is nececary to design completely new vehicle.
Just admitt it, you have absolutely no idea about tanks or AFV? Do you?