The Type 99 or ZTZ-99 is China's third-generation main battle tank. New Delhi: China has equipped its light combat tank ‘Type 99B’, capable of fighting in high-altitude areas, with advanced ...

However, the majority of Beijing’s tanks are old designs, particularly Type 59 and 69 tanks more or less directly copied from the 50s-era Soviet T-54 tank. Such is their profligacy that I once had the ...