Australia Painted One of Its Newest M1 Abrams Tanks to Look Like a Chinese Type 99. The Americans Only Do This With Old Hulls.

Australia Painted One of Its Newest M1 Abrams Tanks to Look Like a Chinese Type 99. The Americans Only Do This With Old Hulls.

Soldiers from B Squadron, 3rd/4th Cavalry Regiment took an M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams, painted it in People's Liberation Army digital camouflage, and bolted dummy external fuel tanks to the rear hull to fake the silhouette of a Chinese Type 99. The tank is now the opposing force for junior officers training at Puckapunyal. The American equivalent at Fort Irwin has run for decades, but its visual modifications are built on obsolete hulls, altered M113s an…