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The ZSD89 (also known as Type 89; industrial designation YW534) is a tracked armoured personnel carrier (APC) developed and built by China North Industries Group Corporation (NORINCO) for the PLA. The vehicle was designed to carry personnel, cargo, and equipment in the battlefield, and can also be used for reconnaissance role. The ZSD89 is capable of cross country travel over rough terrain and amphibious operations in rivers and lakes. A number of derivations were also developed based on the ZSD89 for command and control, recovery, resupply, medical evacuation, and reconnaissance roles.

Propulsion

The ZSD89 is powered by a German-designed BF8L413F 4-stroke, 8-cylinder, turbo-charged, air-cooled diesel engine with a standard power of 235kW (320hp) at 2,500r/min. The vehicle has 5 forward and 1 reverse gears, with hydraulic power-assisted clutch, gear box and break for easy operation. Additional fuel is carried in two external tanks carried on the rear side of the vehicle.

The ZSD89 has five pairs of unevenly spaced road wheels, with three pairs of track support rollers and a pair of front drive sprocket, all of which are rubber-tyred. Torsion bar suspensions with hydraulic shock absorbers are fitted on the 1st, 2nd, and 5th road wheels. Rubber shock absorbers are fitted on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th road wheels. The metallic tracks are fitted with removable rubber pads to improve the comfort of the passenger. The vehicle is amphibious, propelled through water by its tracks. The swimming speed is 6.5km/h, which is sufficient for river-crossing operations but inadequate for maritime amphibious assault.

Protection

The ZSD89's amour can provide protection against 12.7mm calibre weapons. The vehicle's troop compartment provides 32% more space than that of the Type 63 does. Crew and the passengers are protected by a collective NBC-protection system in the pressurised and filtered hull. The vehicle also has a fully automatic fire suppression system. Observation ports are fitted with electrical defogger for winter operations.

Armament

The vehicle is armed with a 12.7mm QJC88 anti-aircraft machine gun (AAMG), with a maximum range of 1,600m. The vehicle carries 1,000 rounds inside the troop compartment. The gunner's hatch is protected by a sphere-shaped, open top shield. The vehicle also has four smoke-grenade launchers mounted on each side of the vehicle.

(From SinoDefence.)

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Obviously very WIP at the moment. All pictures were taken from just after the import from Sketchup.

What is your aim for this model? render/for mod?

Ideally for PR.

Awesome.
But I think ZBD2000 would be more useful,thats ZSD89.China don't have good IFV,thats APC.

P.S As I see - turret same as on WZ551A.Talk with DEV,may be they will give gun turret.

samogon100500 wrote:Awesome.
But I think ZBD2000 would be more useful,thats ZSD89.China don't have good IFV,thats APC.

P.S As I see - turret same as on WZ551A.Talk with DEV,may be they will give gun turret.

Aware of both -

I was thinking about doing this guy as the PLA IFV - ZBD-97 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

There are things needs fixing + way too tri heavy.
I will elaborate with details later

Tri count should be around 8k, if really needed and highly detailed - 10-11k, you're already over that limit and have a lot to add. It doesnt mean you should go crazy and delete something every time you cross 10k tris, but hitting that barrier that early mean you will have a lot to redo in the end.

Large, parallel, close to each other planes should welded into one element to avoid Z-fighting.
Examples in red circles.



So it will look like this




Blue - those rounded things have too many sides, you can save a lot there. The antenna almost never will be seen from its top, so 4-5 sided antenna and 6-8 sided base for it will have same silhouette, while saving you tris.

Green - make that surface completely flat, those indents can be done via normal map and will save loads of tris

Red - might delete half of those sides without much loss, tho you can leave that for later stages.


Not bad start at all.

also antennas are already ingame and will be attached to the vehicles once its exported

Yayyyy Shock!
China needs some more higher quality toys