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Unofficial

The Norinco Type 96 is a tank to be featured in Grand Theft Auto Online, as a part of the Invasion Update

Design
It is modeled after the Norinco Type 96A Main Battle tank, complete with a 125 smoothbore cannon firing depleted uranium armor piercing rounds, and a DShK heavy machine gun for anti infantry purposes, it also has twin DShK machine guns for defense against aircraft. Next to the main gun, there is an unusable 7.62mm co-axial machine gun, as well as four unusable smoke grenade launchers on either sides of the tank

It sports the People's Liberation Army desert camouflage paint scheme, and the Communist Party of China's logo on the turret.

Performance
As expected, it is a heavy tank that has high fire-power and is immune to all small arms fire, but can be destroyed by six jet missiles, six buzzard missiles, four tank rounds or eleven sticky bombs.

It is rather fast for a tank, being powered by a a diesel motor, which gives it a slight top speed advantage over the Rhino.

Its 120mm cannon can destroy anything in one shot. The only thing that can survive such fire power is the Rhino, and it can take four direct shots, but one shot in the rear can destroy the Rhino.

The anti-infantry machine gun can kill every unarmored pedestrian in one shot, due to it being a fifty caliber machine gun, it takes one and half of a shot to kill an armored pedestrian, but it takes four shots to kill a NOOSE officer.

The anti-air machine gun can destroy all helicopters in five shots. It can't take much fire from a Savage, or an Annihilator, but it can take a maximum of 20 seconds or two strafing runs from a Buzzard to be destroyed, From the Valkyrie's front gun, it takes only about eight shots to destroy the Type 96.

Locations

 * Many are parked in the People's Liberation Army's secret base after downloading the Invasion update.