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| T-72 Ajaya of The Indian Army ( Image credits- Wikimedia commons/Author-Vijay Patankar) |
The People's Liberation Type 96A main battle tank ranked number eight during the first round of the 2014 World Tank Biathlon individual race, which took place at a landfill in Alabino, near Moscow, according to Moscow-based news agency RIA Novosti on Aug. 5.
Lieutenant General Yury Petrov, the chief referee of the tank biathlon, said the Russian tank completed the course in a time of 25 minutes and 39 seconds, followed by the Armenian team, which completed the course in 28 minutes and 58 seconds and Kazakhstan, with a time of 29 minutes and 53 seconds. China ranked number eight in the contest, however, Petrov said that the Chinese, Russian and Armenian teams were the only three teams to complete the round complying with all the rules and without serving penalty time.
The tanks had to complete a course of up to 20 kilometers (12.5 miles) avoiding obstacles, crossing rivers and bridges and firing at a set of targets positioned at distances of 900-2,200 meters. The competition involving 12 nations–Angola, Armenia, Belarus, China, India, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Russia, Serbia and Venezuela–was launched on Aug. 4. The games will continue until Aug. 16.
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