Key facts
- Type
- Main battle tank
- Place of origin
- China / Pakistan
- In service
- 2001 – present
- Used by
- Operators
- Designer
- Norinco
- Designed
- 1993–1999
- Manufacturer
- Norinco (VT-1A/MBT-2000, Type 96-IIM), Heavy Industries Taxila (Al Khalid, Al Khalid-1)
- Unit cost
- $4.7 million – $5.8 million USD in 2011
- Produced
- 2001 – 2014 (Al-Khalid) 2020 – present (Al-Khalid-1)
- Variants
- Pakistani: Al-Khalid Al-Khalid I Chinese: Type 90-IIM / MBT-2000 VT-1A
- Mass
- 46 t (51 short tons)
- Length
- 10.07 m (33 ft 0 in)
- Width
- 3.50 m (11 ft 6 in)
- Height
- 2.40 m (7 ft 10 in)
- Armour
- Composite armour , RHA , ERA
- Main armament
- Al-Khalid: 125 mm smoothbore gun, 39 rounds, Al-Khalid I: 125 mm smoothbore gun, 49 rounds
- Secondary armament
- Al-Khalid: 7.62 mm coaxial machine gun , 3000 rds, 12.7 mm external AA machine gun, 500 rds , Al-Khalid I: 7.62 mm coaxial machine gun , 7,100 rds, 12.7 mm external AA machine gun, 1,500 rds
- Engine
- KMDB 6TD-2 6-cylinder diesel , 1,200 hp (890 kW)
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- main battle tank
- Country of origin
- Pakistan
- Mass
- 48
- Manufacturer
- Heavy Industries Taxila
- Image
- Al-Khalid IDEAS 2012.jpg
- Height
- 2.40
- Width
- 3.50
- Speed
- 72
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Encyclopedic overview
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The Al-Khalid/VT-1A (Urdu: الخالد ٹینک — Al-Xālid Ṫaiŋk, pronounced [əlˈxaːlɪd̪ ʈɛːŋk], lit. 'The Eternal Tank') is a main battle tank family developed jointly by Norinco of China and Heavy Industries Taxila of Pakistan. The tank is based on the Type 90-II tank and is predecessor. Approximately 300 Al-Khalid main battle tanks were produced by 2014. The tank has been exported by China to Bangladesh, Morocco and Myanmar. The VT-1A is also marketed as the MBT-2000.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Al-Khalid tank” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.