hi, Does any of you experts know wich vietnamese tanks are represented on the two photographs?
T-55? or a maybe a T-62 or even some modified chinese version?

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T-55's the t-62's bore excavator is about 1/2 way down the barrel

cheerz Q.

Tank could also be the Chinese made T-59, which is a copy of the Soviet T-55. The T-55 had the bore evacuator at the muzzle end of the gun tube and there were spaces between wheels 1-2 from the front. The T-62 had the bore exvacuator about 1/3 the way down the gun tube and the spaces between the wheels 3-4-5 was greater than that of the first three sets. Vietnam had several live fire border disputes with China so I think their main arms supplier was the USSR.

during the period of the vietnam war russia was a supplier of weapons and advisiors to the North.. so chances are about 70/30 being a russian T55 as to being a chinese T59.... half of one six of another as the T59 was pretty much a copy of the T55

My two cents says it is a T-55

I say T-55

Good question and quiz.
At first I would say that it's a T55 because China and Vietnam did have border disputes, if I remeber correctly the border disputes took place after the war with us. Looking at the Commanders position the coupla seems to be welded on. which the Chinese did.

Semper FI
Andy

Speaking of T-55's, I have the Lindberg kit up for bid on ebay! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=2588&item=5918757492&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW A decent kit + some good reading material. To stay on topic, I agree with the T-55 guys.

Its a Chinese made T-59. The turret ventilator(dome shaped item in front of the commander) gives it away. The T-59 is a copy of the T-54. The ventilator is not present on a T-55.

I'm no expert on russian and russian related stuff,
but looking at the turret ventilation dome in front of the loaders hatch, I would designate it T-54 or the Chinese T-59 knock-off.....

Yup, Type 59s

T-54 turret castings on a T-55 hull and gun.

The T-54/55 site will help familiarize the differences between the variants.

Actually its a T-54A or the Chinese version. The reason is:

1. T-54 model has a dome ventilator mounted on the top right front of the turret.

2. The bore evacuator was installed on the "A" model of the T-54.