ZBL-08

The ZBL-08 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 an export version dubbed the VN-1.

Variants

 * IFV - Original IFV variant with a 2A72 30mm turret
 * APC - APC variant with 12.7mm machine gun
 * ZTL-08 - 105mm assault gun variant
 * ST1 - 105mm assault gun export variant
 * PLZ-08 - 122mm or 155mm howitzer
 * PLL-08 - 120mm dual purpose mortar carrier
 * CS/SA5 - air defense variant with a 6-barrel Gatling gun
 * Air defense variant with a 35mm revolving autocannon
 * SWS2 - air defense variant with a 35 mm autocannon, capable of firing "smart" munitions, and four surface-to-air missiles
 * Reconnaissance
 * Engineering
 * Command
 * VN-1 - export variant

Operators



 * 🇨🇳: PLAGF
 * 🇻🇪: Bolivarian Marine Infantry
 * 🇦🇷: Argentine Army
 * 🇹🇭: The Royal Thai Army signed with China a contract to purchase 34 armored personnel carriers. the ZBL09 will be delivered by 2020 at the price of USD 1.695 million each.