复杂的历史渊源和利益纠葛决定了南亚次大陆很难拥有和平的天空。在上世纪80年代后期,印度装备了来自俄罗斯的T-72主战坦克,其邻国巴基斯坦则购买了来自中国的ZTZ-85IIAP主战坦克。但是,这两种坦克的整体技术水准在战后第三代坦克中均属于低档次的,和西方主流的第三代坦克存在着较大差距。海湾战争之后,装备与西方主流第三代坦克同等水准的主战坦克的梦想一直萦绕在印度和巴基斯坦 The complicated historical origins and the entanglements of interests have made it difficult for the South Asian subcontinent to have a peaceful sky. In the late 1980s, India was equipped with a T-72 main battle tank from Russia, while its neighboring Pakistan purchased the ZTZ-85IIAP main battle tank from China. However, the overall technical standards of these two tanks are low-grade in the post-war third-generation tanks, and there is a big gap from the third-generation mainstream tanks in the West. After the Gulf War, the dream of a main battle tank equipped with the same level of the third-generation mainstream tank in the West has been lingering in India and Pakistan