That’s how that works yes, however it isn’t hard to take a educational guess if the information is there in front of you and considering they were able to produce the Type-56, means they indeed were able to see the blueprint, and at least get one or a couple to reverse engineer.
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this colorized picture of the LVT(a)4 with the same modified turret confirm it was a 12.7mm M2HB
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