Meng Model HS011 PLA Armored Vehicle Crew

The Chinese People's Liberation Army, or the Chinese armed forces, is currently the third military force in the world, which has approximately 2 million people under arms, and at the time of mobilization its strength may increase to approximately 7 million people. It is worth adding that from the moment of its inception until the turn of the 1970s and 1980s, the military doctrine of these armed forces, when it comes to war on land, was based on a mass army composed of rather poorly trained recruits and assumed participation in a full-scale conflict. . However, from the beginning of the 1980s, there was an emphasis on better training of soldiers and providing them with equipment that was less and less different from that used in Western armies. Armored forces are a very important element in the Chinese land forces. It can be assumed that the PRC currently has 10 armored divisions and 14 independent armored brigades. However, these are estimates, perhaps clearly different from the actual state. On the other hand, it is more likely that the Chinese army has approx. 7,500-8,000 MBTs and approx. 1,200 light tanks. In Chinese armored units, you can still find a lot of equipment of Soviet origin, such as the Type 69 (modernization of the licensed T-54), but relatively modern designs such as the ZTZ-96, ZTZ-99 and especially the ZTZ-99A are being introduced on an increasing scale. The latter vehicle can be seen as probably only slightly different from the combat value of the 3rd generation Western tanks such as the Leopard 2 or M1 Abrams.