China’s defense industry has begun production of a new engineering vehicle based on a tank chassis.
The assembly is taking place at the Inner Mongolia First Machinery Group Corporation plant, part of the state-owned defense conglomerate Norinco.
The facility is located in Baotou, where various Chinese tanks are manufactured, including the modern Type 99.
According to footage aired by CCTV, the engineering vehicle is fitted with a mount for a bulldozer blade and structures for installing engineering manipulators.
The project is likely a development of the GCZ-112 armored engineering vehicle, which is based on the Type 96A tank.
Chinese armored recovery vehicles are comparable to Western models such as Germany’s Büffel, built on the Leopard 2 chassis.
They are equipped with a front bulldozer blade, a high-capacity winch, and a crane with a telescopic boom, enabling a wide range of engineering and repair tasks in combat zones.
