ZTA-1
| ZTA Light Tank | |
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| Type | Light tank |
| Place of origin |  Zacapican |
| Service history | |
| In service | 1970 |
| Used by | Zacapican |
| Production history | |
| Designer | NTT 114 |
| Manufacturer | Cuauhquetztia |
| Unit cost | 1.5 million. |
| Produced | 1970-2020 |
| No. built | 1500 |
| Variants | See Variants |
| Specifications | |
| Weight | 30.5 t (30.0 long tons; 33.6 short tons) |
| Length | 6.75 m (22 ft 2 in) |
| Width | 3.25 m (10 ft 8 in) |
| Height | 2.42 m (7 ft 11 in) |
| Crew | 4 |
Main armament | 105 mm (4.13 in) NM O4 canon |
Secondary armament | 2×7.62 mm (0.30 in) machine gun |
| Engine | Ci-500 6-cylinder 22.4 L (1,370 cu in) diesel 540 kW (720 hp) |
| Power/weight | 24 hp/tonne |
| Suspension | Torsion-bar |
Operational range | 590 km (370 mi), 800 km (500 mi) with auxiliary fuel tanks |
| Speed | 75 km/h (47 mph) |
The Light Armored Vehicle (Nahuatl Zazatepoztli Acocqui) better known as the ZTA Light Tank is a Zacapine light tank design which serves as the basis for a family of armoured fighting vehicles in service with the Zacapine Armed Forces in a variety of roles. The light tank and its variants were introduced in the early 1970s as a compliment to the heavier O74 main battle tank and its derivatives. Both families of vehicles were the products of the major military modernization efforts of the mid to late 1960s which saw all aspects of the Zacapine military and its equipment revisited. As with the O74, the ZTA tank and the many vehicles based on its chassis remain in active military service in Zacapican and a number of nations around the world. The ZTA platform remained in production for 50 years before the Cuauhquetztia factories allocated to ZTA production were diverted to produce the ZTA and O74's replacement, the O17 and its new variants. Components for maintenance and sustainment will continue to be produced until such time as the Zacapine military retires its fleet of venerable ZTA vehicles.
The ZTA light tank was designed by NTT 114, the same design bureau responsible for the O17 family which is planned to replace it. At the time of the commissioning of the project by the Zacapine government in 1965, the ZTA represented the first fully indigenous design for an armored vehicle in Zacapine history. Before 1965, Zacapican had first imported the early generation of armored vehicles, then established domestic production of foreign designs, and even established semi-indigenous modifications and derivatives of foreign designs, but had never created a fully indigenously designed and manufactured vehicle type. The ZTA was one of many projects designed to foster autarky in the arms industry and defense-related sectors, whilst bolstering the credibility and standing of the Zacapine arms industries on the world market.