-Desperado6
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| Type 122: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| When reverse engineering goes horribly wrong... | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The Enigmatic Type 122 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Generally very little is known about this tank. Alegedly it was develoed from a damaged soviet T-62 captured in the Sino-Soviet Conflict. As the story goes too many 'improvements' were made to the T-62 design in the reverse engineering process and the tank was a miserable failure. A few noticeable differences from the T-62 include the twin 12.7mm Type 54 AAMGs, the faired over sponsons, ubiquitous stamped red star fenders, and larger gun. Of the only two pics I have seen of this tank, each has a different gun. My guess is one is with the original 115mm gun and the other an 'improved' 122mm D-25T gun derived from supplied IS-2m tanks with new muzzle brakes. -Desperado6 |
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| Captured T-62 after recovery | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Captured T-62 damaged by mine | |||||||||||||||||||||||