Chinese Copies

The following are two interesting photos of recent Chinese built VISMODs. The first is from the 2007 Chinese war film "Assembly (Ji jie hao)." The photo is of a replica M26 Pershings based on a Chinese Type 62 light tank chassis. Despite the major limitations imposed by the choice of surrogate chassis, the Chinese film production went to a great deal of trouble to build a off scale but realistic looking upper body and turret.

Chinese Mini-M26 VISMOD

The second VISMOD tank is from the Chinese People's Liberation Army. It is a Chinese Type 59 dressed to play the part of an enemy American M1 Abrams MBT in war games.

Chinese OPFOR Abrams

Comments

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Regarding the VISMOD M26, I do not think it was based on a Type 62, as this light tank has rubber tired roadwheels with a different spoke pattern and a "flat track" suspension with no return rollers. Also the fitting between the third and fourth roadwheels led to speculation that it may have been based on the chassis of a commercial tracked bulldozer.