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The MTL TM-14 "Shinden" is a light armored reconnaissance scout vehicle featured in Grand Theft Auto Online

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The TM-14 takes heavy resemblance to the T114 (BAT) Batallion Anti-Tank assault vehicle, an experimental Vietnam-era tank destroyer. Oddly, its main gun is on the right side of the turret.

Like the Khanjali, the tank appears to have stealth body work, with a rear hatch for the driver, gunner and passengers to climb into. The sides of the tank for some reason feature explosive reactive armor.

Inside the tank, it is much like the Khanjali, except the screens inside aren't green, they are gray. There is also an unusable Combat MG and an unusable grenade launcher mounted on the wall inside.

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The tank unsurprisingly has a great top speed, with a great turn rate, with great off road capabilities, matching that of the Khanjali. Due to its small size, and small armament, it is the most nimble tank in the game, being able to out run and out maneuver every other tank in the game.

However, the nimbleness comes at a price, which is its durability. When stock, it can only survive two RPG rounds, twenty five seconds of continuous minigun fire, and two tank shells, or four sticky bombs. However, when fully upgraded, it can take forty seconds of minigun fire, four RPG rounds, five tank shells or ten sticky bombs.

Armament wise, it comes with a 106mm recoiless rifle that launches HEAT grenades at an extremely high velocity, usually instantly connecting with its target, the rifle is capable of destroying a Rhino in one shot to the engine, and can destroy a Khanjali in one shot in the back, but takes six shots to destroy a fully upgraded Khanjali.

Its secondary armament is a rapid fire heavy machine gun turret, which has a sound not shared with any other mounted heavy machine gun in the game. The gun fires high explosive fifty caliber rounds, or simply air target rounds for self defense against low flying aircraft. The rapid rate of fire, and damage of the bullets comes at a price, which is it can only fire ten bullets in one burst before reloading, so using the gun requires great marksmanship skills, and usually takes more than one burst to destroy an armored aircraft, but can destroy an unarmored aircraft in four shots. However, the gun can be swapped out for a mounted autocannon, which fires much slower but comes with great accuracy and damage.