@Pilotmario @PINK we name tanks after poisonous animals/insects I.e. Scorpion, Viper. Except for the M9 Orion, which was named after the mythological Greek hunter.

Granted. Although I'm sure the troops are going to call it something else. @PINK

@Pilotmario It is customary that the designer of a ground vehicle picks the name, and the 1 million Slavs and Punjabis enlisted would rather not have another Mandarin name to say. Oh, and its name is actually Invincible . . . I just translated it to a romanized form of Russian.

@PINK But the army who is using it is Chinese.

So for the sake of the officers and enlisted of the Chinese Armed Forces, give it a Chinese name.

@Pilotmario The designer was a Slav . . .

@PINK It's primary operator is the Chinese army, so it should have a Chinese name.

Nepobedimyy

@Pilotmario *Slavic

You should give it a Chinese name. @PINK

It doesn't shoot lazers though.

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The M97 was developed to provide a very well performing vehicle, for a lesser cost than other tanks already in ROC service.
It is also quite light and is very easy to maintain in the field. A M97C only costs around $2.3 million, without ERA. ERA and ERA lugs brings up the price only marginally and the ERA is easy to replace. Each tank weighs about 42 tonnes without t the ERA, and about 44 tonnes with ERA. The tank is armed with and 125mm gun with an auto-loading system, and it carries 47 rounds. It has one round in the chamber and 46 in the armored ammunition rack. The rack is computer organized by round type and uses and special robotic arm similar to that of the I.R.L. T-84 Tropical. The tank also mounts a roof mounted 12.7X108mm MG on the roof with 2,000 rounds and a 7.62x54R coaxial MG with 5,000 rounds.
The frontal armor of both the turret and the hull is impenetrable to all but the largest of threat weapons even without the ERA, and is nearly impenetrable with the ERA. The sides are not well armored without the ERA, the ERA on the introduced B-model dramastically improves survival in urban environments.
The engine is the 1,200 HP diesel GWT-12 and the transmission is the 5 forward and 2 reverse speed, automatic TT9. The tank has a top speed of 47 mph and a very good traverse speed. The turret also traverses very fast and the gun can depress 14 degrees.
In previous iterations, the sights were considered lackluster. We decided to seek assistance in upgrading them. The Cubans were the first to respond with anything meaningful. They mounted a; panoramic sight, cupola, and a gunner's sight. They also modified the layout slightly, but it remains almost identical to past variants. Most also sport a new paint job . . . especially if they are in use in forested areas.