But it took until 1959 for the Chinese to develop the Type 59 main battle tank (MBT), and in truth it was little more than a Chinese-produced version of the Soviet T-54A, which had been developed ...

The tank used in the experiments is an old Type 59 medium tank.Originally designed by the Soviet Union in the closing days of World War II, the Type 59 is a licensed copy of the Soviet tank and ...

The story of the Type 59 begins in the 1950s. The People’s Republic of China got involved in the Korean War and began acquiring tanks from the Soviet Union under the Sino-Soviet Friendship Treaty.