Type 59: Entered production in 1958, but without the IR searchlight of the Soviet T-54A. The vehicle was accepted in to service in 1959 as the Type 59, with all future 59’s built from local Chinese materials/sources. Knocked down kits of the T-54A were supplied to the PLA for assembly at 617 Factory, with the first assembled T-54A’s rolling out in 1958. It used a 520hp liquid cooled diesel engine. The T-54A was a low profile medium battle tank, equipped with a Russian 100mm smoothbore, fume extractor and vertical gun stabilization system. Russia had been manufacturing the T-54 from 1946 to 1958 (when production swapped to the T-55) and it was the T-54A that they gave to the PLA for licensed manufacturing for their first tank (the T-54A was also licence built in other former Soviet States). The Chinese Type 59 Medium Tank Developmentĭespite China’s size, it lacked indigenous tank development and production facilities until the mid 1950’s, when it received assistance from the Soviet Union (Russia) as both were communist nations.The Russians helped the Peoples Liberation Army construct 617 Factory, which was ready to manufacture tanks in 1956. View Our new and expanded Type 59 Tank page 0n
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