Meet the Type 99: Over the last two decades, Beijing has worked tirelessly to design and develop homegrown counters to America’s formidable airframes. In order to challenge U.S. air superiority, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Type 99 tank is China’s most advanced armored vehicle, designed to rival the world’s best. Built by Norinco and introduced in 2001, it represents decades of military development. The latest model, ...

Nearly all of China's armored vehicles and tanks are built by the state-owned Corporation, China North Industries, also called Norinco, which is one of the largest arms producers in the world. The ...

New Chinese Type 99 tank. Actually, it should just be called the Type 98I, as there is a new Chinese amphibious light tank also called the Type 99.

Two tank sightings about one month (and thousands of miles) apart are pretty unsettling indicators of U.S.-Chinese relations at the moment. But these aren't exactly your run-of-the-mill main battle ...