The whitewalls are a nice touch.
Posted on 11/19/2015 1:34:51 PM PST by C19fan
The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) will retire its armada of Type 89 (aka PTZ89) tank destroyers, Asia One reports based on information published in the PLA Daily, the official newspaper of the PLA.
The PLA Daily published a picture of 18 self-propelled guns that look like Type 89 tank destroyers departing a military base of the PLA Shenyang Military Command’s 39th Group Army.
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The whitewalls are a nice touch.
Portawalls?
every time it fired it flipped over backwards ?
LAUGHTER ENSUES!
LAUGHTER ENSUES!
When I was in the Balkans at the end of Yugoslavia civil war, I saw M35 and M36 tank destroyers, some destroyed, some still operating. I believe that they also had some M18’s in action, but I never saw one of those.
Tank destroyers can be very effective in an ambush mode, but are of limited use in on mobile mechanized battlefield. Their role has be supplanted by Anti tank guided missles, usually mounted on an infantry carrier.
They cannot stand up against artillery.
it can be a crap shoot on designation. TDs can also be wheeled as in the Italian 8x8 CENTAURO, a mean looking bastard with a 105mm. the PLA had a 6x6 TD too. Most likely it’s designated by its perceived deployment especially gun vehicles. Then there is the whole ww2 assault gun (STG-III, HETZER, SU-85) which were more AT and assault gun (STuH-42, SU-122, SU-152) which were more direct fire artillery and US (M-10, M-18, M-36) which were designated TDs. add to yhe mix the Wehrmacht “JAGD” (JAGDPANTHER, JAGDTIGER) vehicles which were TDs. anything with an ATGM is an AFV killer.
if you really want to be confused look at naval designations for destroyers, destroyer escorts, frigates, and corvettes.
These vehicles could be used as assault guns in infantry direct support roles.
“These vehicles could be used as assault guns in infantry direct support roles.”
The Germans used their Sturmgeschutzes to good effect on all fronts during WWII.
as did the Russians with the SU-85 and SU-100 series based on the T-34 chassis.
...and even before *that*, if the tales be true.
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