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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There are a couple other angles of this tank it seems
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+1 to make low tier China more unique
I don’t know about the HMG. If it’s an M2, it wouldn’t be the best idea to put a muzzle brake on a recoil operated weapon. Best case, it might be an indigenous blank fire adapter for the M2.
No gas system rules out most other HMGs.
My best guess would be that it’s a mock-up to look like an HMG for propaganda purposes. That, or some prototype development whose proof of existence lies deep down in some dusty archive under stacks of thousands and thousands of boring documents.