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The 108th National Defense Budget of the Republic of China was sent to the Legislative Yuan for review in October 2018. The Ministry of National Defense Armaments Bureau compiled a budget of nearly 800 million yuan. It planned to develop a prototype of the “105-mm wheeled cannon-car” in five years. It is understood that this plan will be based on the Yunbao second-generation car, hope to develop a gun with sufficient penetration and power and advanced turret. The military hopes to start the plan smoothly in 2019.
The Armaments Bureau developed an assault gun configuration with a 105 turret for the Yunbao wheel-type car, but the armored combat training command of the armored unit is the so-called “armored fighting vehicle”, which must be a crawler-type main vehicle. The main gun on the top is a low-pressure gun. The penetrating power and power are insufficient. The wheel-type car cannot replace the tracked vehicle. Considering that the wheeled armored vehicles have not been favored by the generals of the armored military divisions, mainly the main battle vehicles, and worrying that the traditional crawler vehicles will be replaced by the wheeled turrets, and the R&D units will adopt the recommendations of the generals with academic background.
While the National Army prepared a confidential budget and was preparing to purchase 108 M1A2 main vehicles for the United States, the Armaments Bureau still budgeted to develop a “105-mm wheel-type gun”. The general said that the National Army developed the Cloud Leopard eight-wheeled vehicle on its own, and deployed it in the Army’s mechanized infantry [“machine-walking”] brigade and the gendarmerie constitutional battalion. In fact, it is a model of the US Army’s “Strike Brigade.”
1:35 scale plastic assembly kit.
Requires glue and paints to complete.
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