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==History== Class: Tank Destroyer</br> Developed: 1984-1988</br> Service: 1989-2015</br> Vehicles Built: cca 100</br> Operators: China Back in the 1970s and the early 1980s, the Chinese realized that their tanks had become obsolete. There were of course several solutions for the issue. One was to develop a new Main Battle Tank, but the Chinese correctly realized that the development would take time. The interim solution was to develop a new gun in an existing vehicle, but the poor relations between China and the Soviet Union at the time hampered the effort to acquire modern technologies from the Soviets. To deal with the situation, the Chinese first tried to steal the plans for Rheinmetall's 120mm L/44 smoothbore gun and when that failed, they built one of their own from a Soviet 115mm smoothbore. It was a failure and an expensive one at that. And on top of all things, the Chinese regained access to various Soviet tech in the 1980s as a result of a political shift and decided to go with Soviet calibers. This made the 120mm gun, fully developed at that point, essentially obsolete. To save face, it was decided to install it on a tracked Tank Destroyer. The development was undertaken by NORINCO and the first prototype of this new Tank Destroyer was built in 1984 with the first firing trials starting the same year. The trials ended in 1988 and by the end of the year, its mass-production was launched. The PTZ-89 was officially accepted in service in 1989 but the odd caliber, the inferior ability to fire on the move and poor protection doomed the project from the start. Very few PTZ-89 Tank Destroyers were actually built – it is estimated that between 1989 and 1995, around 100 vehicles were delivered in total. By 1995, it was completely outmatched by modern Main Battle Tanks and its retirement started in 2015 with the anti-tank role officially being given to modern ATGM carriers.
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