type-62 light tank

no, i am a 20 year old engineering student in canada. what do you want to discuss?
the reason i show you the site is because, i feel very close to your "close guard" icon. because it's been my icon on the chinese military forum for years. the person you see there is me, .

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Do you guys mean this link:


Type 96 the new light tank? What'd you mean?

The old Type 62s are bust, and replacing the turret alone wouldn't do you any good.

At 21 tonnes, I doubt you can airdrop it, but I guess you can get on a plane and fly it to whereever the trouble is in time.......
The turret looks like it's just the egg-shaped turret with a shield placed in front....

if you are asking me upstairs.
chinese MBTs development attempts to follow the rule of "light matches heavy". China is a big country. unlike the russians, it's all flat and at the same longatitue. in the south, there are so much of water field. and tanks like type 99 won't function as well as a lighter tank would. that's why type 59 was issued to the armies in the north, and to the south, the armies were issued with type 62s. today, we still follow this rule. type 99s will be replacing all of the 59s and some of the 80s in the north. and type 96s will be replacing all of the type 62 in the south. and there is one change. now chinese army is changing to a heavy armoured mech divisions and light armoured motorized divisions
there fore the heavy armoured elite mech divisions (mostly in 38, 39 armies) will be using type 99 along with type 86 (BMP-1) or later on a better IFV. and armies in the south mostly with light armoured motorized divisions and brigades will be using type 96 along with type 92 wheeled. these light units are faster they are enough to match the tofu armed forces in the south and west borders of china. besides type 96s are very cheap comparing to type 99.it will be the main MBTs for china in the future. it's not for air borne.

Isn't the South being issued type 59Ds while the North is bring armed with 96s?
The type 98G/99s are pretty much just elite only.
And I really doubt the type 96 has better pressure than 98G. The 98G is only 2-4 tonnes heavier, but have a wider and definitely longer hull. I would buy that the type 98G/99 has better distribution.

So type 62G a bust?
Guess so, unless RRU for tanks is on high priority on the PLA's list.
(no matter how fast a tank can run, the one in the flying jet wins. Not to mention maintence and logistics.)

The Type 62 is, IMHO, bassed on a vastly outdated system. Despite this fact, I suppouse that if it were used in a fight against light APC's and infantry, it could do quite a bit of damage. But considering it's cannon is just a tad less powerful than a German Tiger tank from WW2, Tank-On-Tank seems laughably one-sided.

sumdud said:

Isn't the South being issued type 59Ds while the North is bring armed with 96s?
The type 98G/99s are pretty much just elite only.
And I really doubt the type 96 has better pressure than 98G. The 98G is only 2-4 tonnes heavier, but have a wider and definitely longer hull. I would buy that the type 98G/99 has better distribution.

So type 62G a bust?
Guess so, unless RRU for tanks is on high priority on the PLA's list.
(no matter how fast a tank can run, the one in the flying jet wins. Not to mention maintence and logistics.)

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okay, first of all, once again, there is no such thing as 98G or 99G. it's a very stupid thing came out of a very stupid and very unprofessional chinese military forum which every serious and professional chinese military fan hates. i am not pointing a finger at you, i am just saying the fact.
G is as Gai, means upgraded, it's normally a japanese kind of term, as in the late WWII, they have "thunder Gai" and stuff like that. some smart aXX fan thought this name is cool and gave out a 99G term.....

anyway. no, actually, 59D is kinda like a upgrade for excisting 59s, like in russia, they upgrade T-55 (now i may made some mistake on upgradings). but still, 59D is mostly like a test for the gun, and an export version for other small countries. in the future all of the tanks will be replaced by 96 and 99. 96 will be more, and 99 won't just stay in elite. because 99 is very expensive. much expensive than 96. so it will be issued to those so called "fist troop" (fraust truppe?) FIRST. slowly it will be issued to the others mech divisions, well i think all the mech divisions are fist troops... and 96 now is in mess production, all the photos now indicate the massive production of 96s. i read a thread sometime ago, indicating the stop of some types. if i remembered correctly, 96 and 99 are the only things in production, IF i remembered correctly. 96 is cheap and it will be replacing most of the tanks in the service. like those motor div....

Good post RED guard

GUi is a jap term for example chi ko gui roughly equvilent of bis in french


the t-62 was made beacuse the pla armies of the south need a lighter and cheaper tank some were suplied to vietnam and can be seem on the advance on to sigon

also the pla armies of the north were MUCH better armed the the south BY 1969 they had AK M-1946 T-59 with night vision and tungsten round plus Mi-4/Mi-8 and massive numbers MRL in 1979 the armies of the south werent nearly as well equpit

I don't know about the type98G, but the type 99G is fake no doubt.
But as for type 96s, well, production is high, but I am not sure if it's cheap.
I mean, why else would they be upgrading type 59s? (And I haven't heard about other countries wanting 59Ds/upgrades)

As for the type 62s, yes, they have about no chance against other tanks, but hey, it's a light tank, it was never built to be used as a MBT. China only used them in Vietnam because it was the other tank able to walk through Vietnam though and was cheap.
But then again, this is the type 62, and its design is way too obslete, so what can you expect?
A new design is great, but China don't really need a light tank now.(As long as China lack large transports.)

the perfomace of the tank in vietnam is not bad in one instance two T-34 were destoryered by it the problme is that the infantry protecting the tank suffered heavy losses hence the bad reputation