Nice analysis, I have to wonder if it really is the Type 64 though. The gun doesn’t appear to have a muzzle brake, something that I believe was present even on the first Type 64 prototype. But I suppose this video is too grainy to achieve any real conclusion.
twin barrel mortar in the last picture?
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yea, the information is unknown, it just sits quietly there
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PLZ10, unknown wheeled 25mm or 30mm SPAAG, and PLZ10 turret? Not sure
CA-10 (ZiS-150) with a 57mm Type 59 (S-60) on the bed. My guess is that this is just a “restoration” from leftover stocks and not functional as an actual firing platform.
ZBD86 (WZ501)-based command vehicles, possibly WZ506? Other vehicles in the family include the WZ505 (“Type 86-I”) with 25mm autocannon, WZ504 ATGM carrier, WZ503 APC, and (allegedly) WZ502 mortar carrier, but the number was reused from the ZBD04.
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Very long post!
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Unknown MBT prototype. It resembles the 1223, but it also has some equipment seen only on the Type 80 and later (smoke grenade rack, rear turret basket).
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Prototype of Type 85-IIAP. Notice the older machine gun (Type 54 instead of QJC88) and lack of composite armor on the hull.
Uncertain Type 85 variant, possibly Type 85-III. It has the elevated engine deck and new FCS seen on the Type 85-III, so maybe its that without ERA.
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Type 96 with FCS from MBT-2000. It is not the MBT-2000 turret, you can see the bolts on the top of the turret are still original.
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Unknown truck with machine gun. In the past i thought this was CA-10/ZiS-150 with Type 54/DShK, but it looks too big. The footage is supposedly of Chinese troops on a train heading to Korea, so 1950s.
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T-54, notably not a T-54A/Type 59.
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High-speed amphibious vehicle prototype
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58-72 APC
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Unknown variant on Type 89 chassis.
Unknown variant on Type 08 chassis.
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Unknown 6x6 assault gun
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Unknown 6x6 assault gun
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Specialized ZBD03 variant
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ZBD05 prototype
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6x6 APC prototype
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532 APC prototypes
“First welded turret” prototype (not BK1850, although similar) next to the 1226 and 1221.
Vehicles in the foreground aren’t too special (ZTZ99/WZ123 and ZTZ59D), but vehicle in the back is a PTS amphibious transporter.
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M151 with Kunwu ATGM
M113 with TOW in different configuration
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Chinese soldiers with a scale model M48 during Nixon’s visit (1976).
Multiple M4A1 (75) W
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Unknown IFV on uparmored APC/IFV hull
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Towed Type 81 (used for ATGM testing?)
In the background, Type 85-IIAP/96 with dazzlers, CITV, and thermals.
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CM21A2
M10 before modification. The barrel looks just a little shorter than normal, possibly the result of the de-militarization of the vehicles.
Type 69 with modified engine deck. Supposedly its used for testing gas turbine engines but there is not much evidence.
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Type 59/69 with 100mm Rifled gun, IR lamp, and extra thing sticking out the turret left. It also looks like the dome vent on top is missing.
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Japanese So-Mo ammo carrier & rare early version of AT-L tractor.
Turret of M132 Flamethrower Vehicle
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Type 96 with ERA, thermals, and mounts for a dozer blade
Cutout of some Type 90/96-family turret with thermal sights, looks weird.
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Type 63A without the extended pontoons
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Type 85 variant (maybe Type 85-III?) with text “New Serbian tank ‘Vihor II’” (“Vihor” means “Storm” in english)
Type 62 “Da Gai” with PGZ88 – rare seeing such vehicles together
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Something on ZBD86 chassis
Type 63 used as testbed for Type 05 (WZ212) family
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WZ523 with ZBD86 turret
One of various high-speed attack vehicles, I forget what its name is.
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Type 80 hull (looks like number 2) with Type 59 turret
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Nice roster! Apparently the M132 is from the Army Chemical School in Taiwan.
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Unknown variant on Type 89 chassis looks like Romania MLI-84 hhhh, but i know it wasnt
Are those anti-air trucks on the left?
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Looks like just AA guns with trucks in the background.
Though I think I came across something about a type 88 gun truck but I can’t for the life of me find it again in the document.
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Well you posted this vehicle on the old forum
This was the source you referred to:
中國武備圖誌裝甲兵篇1930-50: The Pictorial History of the Weapons and Equipment of the Chinese Armed Forces- Armored Vehicles 1930~1950
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Oh that pic came from: “Kangzhan: Guide to Chinese ground forces 1937-45” the M3 half track pic came from the other book.
But for the type 88 gun, looks like I remembered wrong. Only reference I can find for it is all fixed and not self propelled.
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Everyone, it is my great displeasure to present to you…the Abomination.
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The turret ring which would make Abrams cry
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it’s the test platform for light vehicle turrets. the new 8x8 assult vehicle’s turret is also tested on this hull.
Recoil might rip that turret ring
won’t, it’s a specially made test platform, this is his job, the big ring is used to fit different turret rings.
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was any other turret tested on this vehicle?
the new 8x8 105mm assult vehicle, unofficially called ZLT-19, and there are another ZTS-63 hull test platform.
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Does anyone have any pictures, or proof, that China used CA-10/CA-30 trucks to mount various gun platforms for Anti-Air? It seems odd that millions of these trucks were built and there isn’t a single picture of one mounting a 12.7mm or 14.5mm in any sort of mount.