U-Star 60002 China Taiwan M48H (CM-11) Main Battle Tank

The CM-11 Brave Tiger (another term: M-48H) is a Taiwanese main battle tank (Chinese Republic in Taiwan) from modern times. The first prototypes of this vehicle were created in the 1980s, and the car entered service in 1990. In the basic version, the combat weight of the tank reaches 50 tons. The drive is provided by a single diesel engine Continental AVDS-1790-C2 with a power of 750 hp. The primary armament is the 105mm M68A1 gun, and the secondary armament consists of two machine guns: the 12.7mm M2 and the 7.62mm M240.

The CM-11 Brave Tiger vehicle was developed with the participation of the armed forces of the Republic of China and the American concern General Dynamics. In essence, it is a hybrid of the M60A3 tank hull, the M48A3 turret and the fire control system (SKO for short) of the M1 Abrams tank. It is assumed that a total of about 450 vehicles of this type were built. While the CM-11 Brave Tiger was a relatively successful vehicle at the time of its introduction into service, although it was inferior to the third generation vehicles such as the M1 Abrams or Leopard 2, at present it is also quite clearly distanced from the latest armored designs developed in the PRC - especially by ZTZ99 (Type 99) cars. For this reason, a research and development program for deep modernization of the CM-11 Brave Tiger vehicles has been slowly implemented since 2017.