Guys,

For those interested in modern Chinese armour, we've just posted 140+ images from the Tank Museum of the Peoples' Liberation Army on the AMMS Sydney site:

http://www.ammssydney.com

The series also include captured Japanese vehicles (Type 94 Tankette), Chi-ha Medium Tank, and US vehicles including a High Speed Tractor (can anyone help IDing this?), an LVT(A)4 as well as preserved M3 and M5 Light tanks.

The article includes some useful info on location and getting to the museum.


Cheers

The US tractor is a M4 High Speed Tractor. Their plaque about being a radar and command vehicle is probably a confusion about its role. Some were used in Korea by the US Army to tow artillery searh radars and associated generator trailers, but they certainly didn't carry them on top.

Your M3 light tank is a M5A1, your M5 light tanks are M3A3, all presumably captured from the Nationalists who had both types.

Many thanks Steve!

I'm more than bit rusty on US Light Tank IDs (obviously!). I'll make the corrections.

As for the HST, yeah, the info on the plaque didn't ring true - seemed a cramped for a generator and a radar set and the mechanics to rotate or deploy the antenna array, all in one.

In any event I'd not seen reference to this usage anyway - mind you my knowledge on these vehicles doen't extend much beyong the article you did in Military Modelling a while ago.

Again, many thanks & Cheers