It can penetrate 150 mm armor at a distance of 6,400 meters. Regardless of the small caliber of our army’s 100 mm artillery, it has fierce firepower.

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▲PTL02 100mm wheeled assault gun (picture from: Internet)

The official name of the Type 02 assault gun is PTL02 100mm wheeled assault gun. This gun is the first assault gun installed by our army using the WZ551 wheeled 6X6 chassis. It is generally equipped with our army\’s artillery troops.

▲ Since the Type 02 100mm wheeled assault gun adopts a variety of methods to reduce the recoil of the gun and improve the stability of the body when the gun fires, it can adopt side shoot at the target without overturning ( Picture source: Internet)

The PTL02 100mm wheeled assault gun uses an improved version of the 86-type 100mm high-bore pressure smoothbore gun (mainly with the addition of a muzzle brake and an extended rear sitting distance to avoid excessive recoil), and is equipped with a sight and guidance function It has a capable image-stabilized fire control system, so the gun is capable of firing 100mm laser beam-guided artillery-launched missiles. In addition to artillery-launched missiles, the gun can also fire 100mm-caliber fin-stabilized discarding sabots (including tungsten alloy bombs and depleted uranium bombs), fin-stabilized armor-piercing bombs, fin-stabilized grenades, etc. Among them, when facing enemy tanks, the Type 02 100mm assault gun can fire 100mm tail-stabilized discarding sabots armor-piercing projectiles. When firing tungsten alloy 100mm tail-stabilized sabots armor-piercing projectiles, the bore pressure reaches 594MPa, and the muzzle velocity can reach 1621m/s. , for 150mm/60°The effective penetration distance of the homogeneous plate can reach 5630 meters, the effective penetration distance of the 150mm/65° homogeneous plate can reach 3350 meters, and the effective penetration distance of the 204/68° composite plate can reach 4500 meters. When launching depleted uranium 100 mm fin-stabilized discarding sabot armor-piercing projectile, the chamber pressure reached 5 94MPa, the initial velocity can reach 1591m/s, the effective penetration distance for 150mm/60° homogeneous plate can reach 6400 meters, the effective penetration distance for 150mm/65° homogeneous plate can reach 4470 meters, and the effective penetration distance for 204/68° composite plate can The effective penetration distance is up to 560 meters.

▲The 100mm tail-stabilized discarding sabot armor-piercing projectile used by the Type 02 100mm wheeled assault gun (picture source: see watermark)

So to sum up, although the 100mm port of the PTL02 100mm wheeled assault gun The smoothbore gun seems to have a smaller caliber, but it still has good combat performance. Especially when it was finalized, it can basically meet the needs of suppressing the armored forces around our country. Although at present, the performance of the gun may be slightly It is obviously backward, but it can still continue to serve in our army for a period of time by virtue of its low use and maintenance costs.

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