The 'Copied' Chinese Vehicle That Outnumbers Every Stryker NATO Has Ever Built

The US Army built forty seven hundred Strykers. China looked at them, took notes, and built more than six thousand of something the West still calls a copy. The ZBL-08 is not a copy. It is a system. NORINCO's Type 08 "Snow Leopard" carries a 30mm autocannon, anti-tank guided missiles, swims rivers under its own power, and runs on a 440 horsepower Deutz diesel the Stryker cannot match. One hull. Twenty variants. Infantry fighting vehicle, 105mm assault gun, self-propelled howitzer, air defense, command post, bridgelayer, electronic warfare. Every vehicle in the brigade shares the same engine, the same wheels, the same spare parts. The PLA fielded thousands across its rapid-reaction brigades from Tibet to the Taiwan Strait. The export VN-1 and ST-1 now serve in Venezuela, Thailand, Gabon, and Nigeria, where the ST-1 saw its first confirmed combat against Boko Haram. We compare it against the Stryker, France's VBCI, Germany's Boxer, and Russia's BTR-82A, and reveal its successor, the Type 19 with an unmanned turret and HJ-16 missiles. Subscribe to BritishWarLegends for military hardware the algorithm does not want you to see. #ChineseMilitary #PLA #ArmoredVehicles