| ZTZ-80 | ZTZ-88B | ZTZ-88A | ZTZ-85-II | ZTZ-85-IIA | ZTZ-85-III |
The ZTZ-88A is a prototype Chinese Main Battle Tank that appears in Wargame: Red Dragon.
History[]
After the Damansky/Zhenbao Island (珍宝岛) incident where the PLAGF captured a T-62 from the Soviet border guards, they soon realized that the existing ZTZ-59s and later WZ-121 (ZTZ-69) were nowhere near comparable with the masses of the latest Soviet MBTs. The Commission for Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (国防科学技术委员会, COSTIND) and Fifth Ministry of Machine Building (第五机械工业部;五机部) accelerated their project coded "Project 2-4" (二四会战; established on 1970/2/4) for a new MBT which would be known as Project 122 (122工程). The project was dropped a few years later after revisions on the development route but this trained new batches of tank designers and engineers for future projects.
Meanwhile, one of the "fail-safe" versions of the designs in Project 122, WZ-1225 with the newly-imported 105 mm gun and improved engine, designed by Fang Weixian (方慰先, designer of later ZTZ-85, 88, and 96) passed state evaluation and inherited the industrial code WZ-122. The later revised design of WZ-1225 would become the basis of the later domestically designed ZTZ-80 tanks.
The ZTZ-88 series was a hybrid of the ZTZ-85 which was aimed for export with a redesigned hull and the turret from ZTZ-80, aka ZTZ-80-I. The ZTZ-88A was the improved version with a ZPL-94 105 mm gun. What was achieved in ZTZ-85 and ZTZ-88A would later be used in the new 2nd generation MBT of PLAGF - the ZTZ-96 (ZTZ-88C). Although it wasn't seen among the tanks at the 1999 National Day parade like its predecessor ZTZ-88B was, the ZTZ-88A could be seen in pictures from PLA media and they were last seen in large scale during the ongoing Sino-Indo Border Conflicts where numbers of them were deployed near the LAC.
Overview[]
Weapons[]
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| Type | Main Gun | MMG | No Weapon |
| Name | T83 | T54 | |
| Caliber | 105mm [KE] [AoE] | 12.7mm | |
| Ammo | x 30 | x 1000 | |
| Range | Ground = 2275 m Helicopters = N/A m  Airplanes = N/A m
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Ground = 1050 m Helicopters = 875 m Airplanes = N/A m
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| Accuracy | 60% | 15% | |
| Stabilizer | 45% | 5% | |
| AP Power | 17 | N/A | |
| HE Power | 3 | .75 | |
| Suppression | 121 | 90 | |
| Rate of fire | 9 r/min | 652 r/min |
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