The design team being executed was a joke, I thought I added a meme that would have made it clear but I must have missed it during editing. Sorry, like I said in the last video I'm really busy at the moment so I don't have much time to work.

One thing I know about this tank is the design team was executed. Edit: No this is not real this is a joke I was quoting Spokston and he later confirmed he was just making a joke.

"It's design team... was executed..." Rest in piece warthunder devs

3:55 as a French light tank enjoyer, this is too accurate

“The one thing I know is that it’s design team was *executed”* Ahh, pleasant.

The fact that caliber of ATGMs and main cannon match implies to me that it was a testbed for barrel launched ATGMs and project was likely closed before they could get anywhere with those. Or maybe it suffered the same fate as sino-american Jaguar... that being PRC proving that market doesn't lead to democracy. Shockingly-_-

God that AML-90 using a P47 to revenge CAS you really gets under my skin

This is one of the research projects of China's second-generation main battle tank. The project started in 1967 and accelerated after the Sino-Soviet conflict in 1969. The first prototype was made in 1970, and the factory code was 122. This tank used hydraulic transmission, hydraulic control and hydro-pneumatic suspension system (so called "three-hydraulic vehicle"). But these technical performance requirements exceeded China's industrial capabilities, and this prototype was quickly abandoned in favor of more reliable torsion bar suspension, mechanical transmission, and mechanical control. The program was completely discontinued in 1974. Also, while I know this is a joke, I want to point out that the engineering team for this project was not executed😅 They began work on the development of WZ-1224 shortly after.

There is a version of the same tank in WOT but it is slow, has a low reload speed on a deadly accurate gun, and, of course, no missiles. It looks better here than it does there.

As "The AK Guy" would say, the Ali Babad the shit out of that

"i knew it had to be french because it threw the smoke grenades way away from anyplace where they'd be useful" 😂😂

The 115mm dart does actually really good damage on the t62. I can always tell im playing it just based on the damage and amount of one shots i get compared to 105mm apfsds

The ability to follow up with atgm is so nice.

This thing has basically the same darts as the T-62, and in my experience, the T-62's 3BM3 actually does pretty nice damage.

The entire development process was documented in a 2017 Ordance Knowlege article written by one of the project manager on the team. No one was executed, and many from the project went on to work on ZTZ-80/ZTZ-88. In fact, from the article, one of the few positive outcome of joint-project 24 (WZ-122, WZ-132, WZ-212, WZ-532, 120mm gun and hydraulic suspension) is that is provide experience for young designer to work on projects without constraints, as later army project are extremely conservative for the next few decades. The chief designer, 张锐生, for WZ-122 is actually very famous in that he became a huge advocate for tank turbine engines development as well as pushing for merkava-like front mounted engines layout for WZ-123 (later bacome Type 99). The only designer that did die was the lead for WZ-532 (Type 63 APC replacement that never was), but because of execution, but becase of the test vehicle capsized on lake during fording tests, which took his life as well as several other crewmembers.

A secondary weapon that can pen tanks is always going to be a fun vehicle. Mclos cent is joy.

“There is one thing I know about this tank” Oh? “It’s design team was executed...” Oh... “...and that’s why there is so little information about it” Yeah that checks out

The WZ122 series was an attempt to develop a tank by the 5rd mechanics division（五机部）, with the intension to develop a tank that would rival and defeat the T-62s in the 1970s(similar to how the PTZ-89 is meant to promptly fuck up T-72s a mile away), so saying its a better T-62 wont be exactly wrong, edit: this seems like to be a mixture of two tanks, the turret and the hull seems to be from differnt prototypes Quick fact, the gun used on the WZ122, being an enlarged 2A11 tank gun, is the first 120mm smmothbore tank gun in the world, even prior to the L/44, which was eventually brought by China too and is used on the L/50 of the type 89 In war thunder the fact that it is 8.3 is all it matters: its only France and China that has a great 8.3 lineup

Imagine playing something better than a 0.3 uptier for 1 single match

Love your videos spoooook!!! Keep it up

the only non-pen in the first match being the r3.....love warthunder.

5:10 spookston is the best anti air tank player change my mind

Bruh the design team was executed, that's deep asf

I think ConeofArc did a video on the history of this tank

3:12 And communist stars on the mud guards, it gives at least 50 horsepower to the engine! How could you forget that 🤦‍♂️

i rarely die to tanks in everything below 8.7 cas is such a bs thing to have in ground battles

I love that tank just got the Chinese t55 and this makes grinding further stuff easier

Your aim with the ZSU is insane, great video

If your main gun is damaged, your four ATGM will be your best back up weapons because it's missiles top speed is horrendously slow to reach long distance targets.

Im really enjoying these live commentary videos

I have been enjoying this tank a lot tbh! It’s great fun I’m also pretty sure the atgms can’t ammo rack you, as I haven’t ever had it happen so far

To see Spookston enjoy my favourite Chinese tank deffinetly makes my happy.

The T-62 was the best tank in the world when it was created

It looks beautiful. Maybe it’s cause I like the 113 and wz121 from WoT

What a time to be alive, one of my favorite WoT tanks is now in War Thunder

Does it get a stat boost if there's five or more of them grouped together?

lol that intro shot was so unlucky.

Yea, this... thing. You should make a "historically accurate" video about it, it would be very, very long. The model we have in game is an absolute abomination - it's less historical than the one in World of Tanks, and that's quite an "achievement". It has a couple of problems: - It's name is wrong - I'll skip all the crap that's after the number, it's kinda complicated, but I believe it shouldn't be there. But what *definitely* shouldn't be there is the word "Object" - it's a Soviet/Russian designation for prototypes, it never existed in the Chinese nomenclature. It should just be called "122" or "122-1". - And why I said "or" above? Well, that's the best part - we don't even know which variant of the vehicle it is! The vehicle named "122" had several iterations, but the ones that we are interested are the first three: "122", "122-1" and "122-2". The first variant, the "122" was the most advanced one with hydropneumatic suspension, hydraulic transmission and hydraulic controls (hence it's also referred to as "triple hydraulic"), it shares the turret with the in-game model. It however had a different hull, as the variant in game has "mechanical controls". The second variant, the "122-1" was the simplest one with mechanical suspension, transmission and controls (this one is thus called "triple mechanical"), I believe it is the closest to the in-game model as both the hull and the turret fit, but the big issue is that the original 122-1 had the ATGM launchers removed. The third variant, the "122-2" was the mix between the two previous models, and it's also the WoT variant. It had mechanical controls and ATGM launchers, but it also had an autoloader, so the turret looked different.

I love how the turret is 1 solid piece with matched and a gun, BUT THEN there is a basket on the back for presumably shell collection

Props for the OG Chaos Gate track!

i knew about it from wot, it looks much better than the other T series tanks in aesthetics but the armor leaves much to be desired hope the china tree can get the 113 someday

I'm still a firm believer we need a tanks only mode. I'm 89% sure it would get more attention than standard Ground RB, because revenge bombing is the least fun thing in the world

This tank appeared in world of tanks prior to this release so there should be info on it (real or not)

yeah this vehicle is one of my favorites in the game

Seems like a fun tank!

Just unlocked it and god do I love it, it's so fun, basically an AMX 30 but stabilized and reloads a bit slower, I'm having a blast playing it, I'm gonna farm the rest of the chinese tree to have a lineup to go with it

"so Gaijin finally added a squadron vehicle for a nation that isn't part of the big three " UK: Am I a joke to you?

It looks like a leopard with T-62 turret and I love that

"There is one thing i know about this tank." Oh really, spook? "It's that it's design team was executed" Uh. Well that's.... Interesting.

"SOMEONE HAVING FUN! P-47 GO!"

this thing is also in World of Tanks as the "122-TM" though there obviously it's ATGMs do not function. Though for a medium tank at tier VIII it had great armor and a high alpha damage, but one of the worst reloads at tier VIII for its caliber.

5:19 CAS: "you can't kill me if I kill me"

4:25 How I look at the BMP that just hit me with that dollar store missile

The Object 122TM in WT is a lot cooler than the WoT version since you can actually fire the rockets now

That missile killing the Centurion Mk3, HEAT failed to pen but triggered overpressure. And they say Germany suffers...

They really should add some NK T-62s (ones with IGLAs mounted to the top) to the Chinese Tech tree. It only makes sense that NK is going to be under the Chinese tree.

Don’t know if it’s just that you cut out most of the matches or that you’re a bit more “serious” but you seem to be doing better in this than BoTimeGaming. Also, excellent choice in music my friend! Absolutely love the C+C Generals sound track! XD

Just finished breaking bad feeling depressed now. See new spookston vid. Now i want to play war thunder fuck man i don't need that type of sadness now.

That thing is the bane of my existence in Tier 8 WoT matches.

With this thing added the 8.0-8.7 chinese lineup is insane.

if you like a tank-atgm combo, I recommend the STRV-81 RB-52. It's quite a funny vehicle

It was called WZ122 in Chinese. You can wiki it. And the saying that the design team was executed was not true, there's no evidence to proof it.

@Spookston would you agree that WT should implement a "Tanks Only" mode?

The coneofarc covered this tank it has a history

if you look at the UFP its more angled than the T62 which I can imagine has to do a lot with its better survivability

Air RB with the occasional tank engagement.

maybe do the chi ri 2 soon that thing is fun if not very good due to being the size of a small aircraft carrier with armour straight out the school of the British Old Gang

2:01 "the sound" *insert war thunder cas flashbacks*

It's like playing the T62M1 or T55AM1 shooting atgms without having to reload the missile after failing to one shot a tank with the main gun

Compairing past Spookston to contemporary Spook: 32% more lively with commentary and laughter. 56.2% increase in Memes. Just as ridiculously leathal at playing WT than I could ever hope to be...

yugoslavia did a similar thing to some of theirs since they could not get the gun launched ones from the soviet union, you can occasionally find images of them but they were widely used

Stabilizer, laser range finder, atgm, darts, thermals… in 8.3? Gaijins hunger for money is well known. This tank is absolutely stupid and gets upranked in the next 2 weeks.

pov: t62 had a kid with the bmp2m

Hey Spookston, i was the R3 T106 you killed in the beginning of the first match, great stuff, you did amazingly that match, just wanted to know how you could see me there so that i have a better chance next time i play on that map!

Looks like a discount version of the Mammoth tank from Command and Conquer

fancy star embossed front mudguards. the atgms being mounted forward a bit like that rather than on top would hopefully mean that if they blow due to enemy fire the turret front armor should help protect you better than thin roof armor, but reloading these would be a bit tougher

Love the WZ305.

We still need a PTL02 video.

The snail should add those crazy north Korean tanks that have ATGMs and Iglas haphazardly strapped to them

wait... putting ATGM's and modern sensors on old tanks seems like a great idea. There are plenty of vehicles made from old tank hulls but upgraded with autocannons and sensors after all. A number of tanks have had ATGMs. Centurions and AMX13s come to mind. I wonder how efficient this would is vs buying/making light vehicles.

TECHNICALLY the shimakaze is a squadron vehicle outside of the big three but well, its a boat and like 5 people play naval

The AMX-30B2 feeling very obsolete all of a sudden...

Would love to see a video on the Turm III

Just another slightly undertier tank that makes China 8.3 stupidly OP along with PTL02 WMA301 and the premium tank I forgot at that BR

The gun fires the exact same ammo makes since that this was made right after the t62 that was found

Awesome tank yep

Hello spookston! Do you think the Leopard 2AV is good at 9.7? I started to wonder about it because it's kinda pretty bad vehicle. Because it has no thermals and almost paper armor in the uptier. So im just wondering about what you think about it? (maybe you got this question before like 20 times and i don't see it so sorry for that)

7.3-7.7 gets only uptiered now. i have not gotten a downtier in my 7.7 in a week

Somehow also 8.3 despite it having several advantages over the T-62

2:04 *My pure and utter anger*

5:00 just what top tier is now shame Before we thought it would be fun

guess im gonna put my points i left for abrams into it

I Just finished smoking crack and spookston posts a video. Wonderfull

Spookston have you seen bo time gaming's e-100 video where he mentioned the pirce of it compared to his car?

2:08 are we not gonna talk about the blind IKV on the right??

You should play some Swedish tanks. Although the SPAA is pretty lackluster. The CV-90120 with all the Strf-9040's as a line up is pretty strong. For AA purposes and ground

Did anyone else saw the IKV90 in Min 2:11 just drivinng by?

This tank is also in world of tanks Blitz as a tier 8 medium with heavy tank armor 🙃

For anyone is interested, Object 122 or 3 machanics as ppl usually refer it to in Chinese was one of the three on going tank development lines in China along side the ZTZ-59 line and ZTZ-69 line. It’s more of a experimental project aside from those two lines in the 80s.

Well I would Like to see you play and give your thoughts on the M1128. My Father served on something similar in Afghanistan and I want to know if its actually a good vehicle in the game.