Seeing how Russia is deploying T-55's, will we be seeing them with chinese Type 59G ERAs?
>>61978504Bare bones T-55 is the best you can expect.
You know things are bad when Russia is deploying the World Of Tanks tech tree.
>>61978504Maybe when putinists are in power in western europe and the Chinese can risk supplying equipment without any plausible deniability.
>>61978504Best I can offer is bone stock T-54s straight from the Hungarian Revolution, fitted with shittily-welded copecabanas.
>>61979025Xi Pingpong can always pick a general he wants purged & say the general sold PLA's equipment to the Bratva who then sold it to the Russian Army
>>61978504in 2024 T-55 comes with cope cage and empty era blocks, same with T-62
>>61979098That would make the PLA look bad. Can’t have that.>>61978504The best they could hope for is upgrade kits from North Korea. I believe they supplied the SAA with some. In fact maybe they also have some upgrade kits for T-62s which Russia could buy.
>>61979148>That would make the PLA look bad. Can’t have that.Chinese state media has reported on PLA corruption in the past though, usually right before the state security services uncover that a general in Pingpong's opponents' camp was responsible for said corruption.
>>61979148>NK upgradeThey could use some new parade tanks.
>>61979142>>61979070I really don't understand why they can't at least upgrade these before sending them to the front. Sure they're old but by investing a bit into upgrades they'd increase their effectiveness immensely.
>>61979218Because their limited industry is already at capacity.
T-55 (obr 2024) soon?
>>61978504China can't afford to have its tanks be revealed as the junk they are.
>>61978504Nope, that requires money, and Putin and his oligarchs need that money for caviar, yachts, mansions, and underage hookers.You will be riding the T-54-1.Also, this is now a modernized T-54/55 thread.
>>61979906Remember when ziggers were mocking Slovenian for sending these?
>>61980273I still find it weird that they had such a fixation on them, I distinctly remember once they knocked out a T64 or some other more modern tank and where hooting and hollering that they killed an M-55S. Mind you Poland had already sent Twardys by that point (and I think the AMX-10RC was also there before them) but they had this odd idea that by destroying a foreign tank they'd scare everyone away from sending any more aid
