ZBL08

The ZBL-09 is a Chinese wheeled armored fighting vehicle.

It is a recent People's Republic of China produced family of 8x8 wheeled Infantry Fighting Vehicles. It's a modular design which claims to be able to field an APC model, an IFV model, an anti-tank gun model with an export variant, an Engineering model, a 122 mm self propelled howitzer model, a 155 mm self propelled howitzer model, an air defense model, a self-propelled mortar model, a recon model, a command vehicle model, and a modified version dubbed the VN1.

Variants

 * IFV - Original IFV variant with a 30mm turret
 * APC - APC variant with 12.7mm machine gun
 * IFV variant with the UW4 30mm remote weapons station
 * PTZ-09 - 105mm anti tank variant
 * ST1 - 105mm assault gun variant
 * PLZ-09 - 122mm howitzer
 * PLL-09 - twin mortar carrier
 * CS/SA-5 - air defense variant with a 30mm Gatling gun
 * Air defense variant with a 35mm autocannon
 * Reconnaissance
 * Engineering
 * Command
 * VN1 - export variant

Operators

 * PLAGF
 * Bolivarian Marine Infantry
 * Bolivarian Marine Infantry
 * Bolivarian Marine Infantry

Potential buyers

 * Argentine Army
 * Argentine Army