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Jul 29, 2021, 7 tweets

When the monetary value of Nigeria's $6 million VT-4 MBT was first demonstrated.

OCTOBER 23, 2020.

On the evening of October 23 2020, a fierce battle ensued after Nigerian troops walked into an ambush. Heavily outnumbered Nigerian troops began taking casualties

Sending victory the insurgents proceeded to finnish off the beseiged troops by taking a flanking maneouver and converging on them for a pincer attack

.. Suddenly a single VT-4 appeared and the situation was dramatically reversed. Though details of the VT-4's engagement with Boko Haram was not given, the soldiers not only lived to fight another day, the machine gun

..fire from the VT4-s remotely controlled gun turret made mince meat of the insurgents, with the survivors fleeing with gunshot wounds.

The VT4 MBT is comparable to the American M1A2 MBT and the German Leopard 2 MBT. It is equipped with a 125mm smoothbore gun, which can fire a variety of shells. Its main gun can launch fixed-tail armor-piercing shells and high-explosive grenades, etc.

The shell velocity is as high as 1800 meters per second and can penetrate more than 1000 mm Homogeneous armor of thickness.

The tank is also equipped with the most advanced fire control system and integrated sensors, active self protection system etc

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