Type 59 Main Battle Tank

The Chinese Type-59 is a Chinese produced version of the Russian T-55A. The first tanks were prodcued in 1958 and it entered service in 1959. Production continued until 1980 during which time around 9,500 were produced. The Type-59 was the backbone of the Chinese People's Liberation Army until the early 2000s. The Type-59 was fitted with a 100mm rifled gun and two Type59T 7.92mm coaxial machine guns and a Type54 12.7mm machine gun for air defense. Later versions had an ungraded 105mm rifled gu

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