Comments on: Chinese Tank Museum photos

By: Iron_Tsunami

Iron_Tsunami — Sun, 19 Jan 2014 20:21:57 +0000

Darn. Could have made a cool upgrade to the WZ-132.

By: Lujunlin001

Lujunlin001 — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 00:18:56 +0000

The early version of Type-59 may just a copy of T-54 ,but later ,it became totally different thing …….. http://tieba.baidu.com/photo/p?kw=%B6%FE%D5%BD&flux=1&tid=1941125144&pic_id=36534e4a20a446237913e0919822720e0ef3d7dd&pn=1&fp=2&see_lz=1 These are some Type59 Chinese exported to Africa , you think they are same as T-54? lol

By: Lujunlin001

Lujunlin001 — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 22:55:35 +0000

Well… several WZ132 prototype were made, the WZ132 built in 1973 was the last one which has 100mm smoothbores and 4 AT rocket launcher

By: Lujunlin001

Lujunlin001 — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 22:50:56 +0000

WZ-122A不就是那个“三液”底盘的代号嘛，B是三机底盘的代号…
WZ-122A is WZ122 with hydraulic transmission/ steering/ suspension system， the earlier prototype of WZ-122 project.

By: FlipSide

FlipSide — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 15:35:10 +0000

thanks for the reply :)

By: SMSBC

SMSBC — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 11:56:47 +0000

121有一个发展型号带120线膛炮

另外WZ122A是什么？
我倒是见过带59炮塔的类似WZ122的车辆，可能是80式的底盘

By: LiquidInferno

LiquidInferno — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 07:19:12 +0000

I think he more means “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it” kind of thing so rather than develop their own armor the chinese could just use russian stuff that was already proven to work. And pretty much all Chinese tanks are either Russian imports (IS-2), direct copies of Russian tanks (Type 59/WZ-120 and T-54), or designs based off of Russian tank doctrine (110 and IS-3). Unlike other nations (US, UK, Germany, Russia) the Chinese didn’t do a lot of their own research and designing, a lot of their military hardware is copied. It’s just a colloquial thing with China, they don’t just do it with a lot of weapons they also do it with common consumer items. Think of chinese knock offs, like bags, watches, movies, clothes, etc.

By: SMSBC

SMSBC — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 05:07:41 +0000

另外很多样车是交给工厂自己保存，没有送到博物馆… 有的则毁于核试验
前段时间我找到了59-16核试验之后的照片…

中国北方有一处广场上还有英国的酋长式坦克涂刷了类似PLA的涂装

By: Horizonwalker

Horizonwalker — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 04:38:47 +0000

the only T-34-X plan that might have prototype is T-34-2… others are just… meh

By: Horizonwalker

Horizonwalker — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 04:33:21 +0000

Indeed they do. and several 132 blueprints existed, only the one(1973 model) built up is wz-132