Modern Chinese Tanks: 1950-Present (Technical Guides)

Well worth the money paid!! Every variant and type of Chinese built APC and Tank from 1950 to 2018! It's a very comprehensive little book, full of coloured artwork showing side views of the equipment described alongside colour photographs. All line art is in the appropriate camouflage of the period, from Chinese copies of the BTR-50k to the entirely Chinese designed ZDS-89-2 (Type-89) and from the Type-59, the Chinese built (with Soviet help) T-54 to the VT-5 introduced in 2018 and the cutting edge of Chinese tank manufacture. Surprisingly the book also includes anti-aircraft platforms as well as self propelled guns!! This makes this slim volume (128 pages) a handy reference on the latest technologies being developed by China. It's not a thorough reference tome as the data provided for each entry is clear, concise and to the point. Scholars wishing to trace Chinese armour development would probably preference a larger, more in depth volume, but for us who just need to know what the PLA is equipped with, it does the job! One thing of note, the entries follow in chronological order of development/production with notes of what piece it replaces and when so it is handy for wargamers building PLA forces and handy for us writing TO&E within specific time frames! I thoroughly recommend it!

This is a good book Well detailed and shows simularity with Russian tanks.