About: WZ-122 main battle tank

The WZ-122 (Chinese: WZ-122主戰坦克) was a main battle tank developed by the People's Republic of China. Its development started in March 1970. After several prototypes were built, the plan was largely abandoned in 1974. However, development continued in 1977 and into the 1980s with several prototypes such as the WZ-1224 and WZ-1226. Most of the prototypes are not accepted into production due to reliability and technology issues (with the exception of the Type 80 and eventual Type 88), but it provided a technological basis for the development of various later vehicles, sutch as China's own third generation main battle tank, the ZTZ-96 and ZTZ-99.