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Type 59

Main battle tank · Land · Inner-Mongolia First Machine Group Company Limited · China

Wikidata: 1958 main battle tank built by China

Operators among the 24
1
Active, across the 24
175
On order, across the 24
0
In service since
1959

Catalogue entry

First flight or launch
–
In service
1959
Retired
–
Generation
1
Unit cost (US dollars)
not published in Wikidata
Manufacturers
Inner-Mongolia First Machine Group Company Limited
Wikidata classes
combat vehicle model
Identifiers
Q545541 · factbase.org/sys/8P00FX7220 · Wikipedia

Dates, makers and classes from Wikidata (CC0); specifications stop at what Wikipedia and the manufacturer publish.

Operators

Each of the 24 nations that holds the platform, with its active count (variants summed). A nation that holds it with no published count shows no bar.

NationActiveReserveOn orderVariants
North Korea175

Transfers

Deliveries recorded by the SIPRI Arms Transfers Database, by year, to every recipient. Derived figures only; source: SIPRI Arms Transfers Database.

1965: 2001966: 7211967: 5501970: 3501971: 301972: 1501973: 1751975: 251978: 8401980: 361981: 161982: 13001985: 221990: 241991: 25196519781991max 1,300
SIPRI-recorded deliveries of Type 59 by year

Recipients: Pakistan (1,675), Iraq (1,000), Albania (721), Vietnam (350), Iran (300), North Korea (175), Sudan (50), Bangladesh (36), Tanzania (30), FNLA (Angola)* (25), Sri Lanka (25), Khmer Rouge (Cambodia)* (24), Zimbabwe (22), Zambia (16), Republic of the Congo (15).

  • Derived from: Q13419886

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