In addition the front hull is protected by Explosive Reactive Armored Package. Spaced armor is made of two layers of armor with a gap in between slowing the impulse of the incoming projectiles and increasing the collision time. ERA's are mounted on most vulnerable points on the tank such as the hull and the entire turret. The Reactive armor uses the charges from explosives to deflect the incoming projectiles. The ceramic materials absorbs projectile penetration by fragmentation, diminishing the penetration They are lighter in weight and are effective. The Haider's Tank Armor on the turret and the hull is an amalgam of composite, reactive and spaced armor.Ĭomposite armor is made up of layers of Ceramics, Metals and Polymers that help to resist the penetration by external threats. The secondary armament consists of one 7.62mm coaxial machine gun and a remotely operated weapon station mounted at the rear of the commander hatch that is armed with a 12.7mm heavy machine gun. The main armament of the tank consists of a 125mm Smoothbore gun that is able to fire a variety of ammunition (which includes Armored Piercing Fin-Stabilized Discarding sabot, High explosive, High Explosive anti-Tank along with Anti-Tank Guided Missiles). The tank has a crew of three: Driver, Commander and Gunner. The design of Haider MBT is conventional with the driver seated at the front center of the hull, the turret in the middle and the engine in rear. It is named after the last caliphate of the Rashidun Caliphate, ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib. VT4 itself is an export variant of the Chinese Type99G tank that is in use by the People Liberation Army. During IDEX 2023, a scale model of the tank was displayed on the Pavilion of Pakistan. The Haider Tank (Urdu : حیدر ٹینک) Literally "The Lion Tank", is a local made third generation main battle tank of the Pakistan army.
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