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Amphibious light tank
People's Republic of China
Norinco
1997
20 t (3,100 st)
Gun forward: 9.6 m (31 ft)
3.2 m (10 ft)
2.5 m (8.2 ft)
4 (Driver, Loader, Commander, Gunner)
Welded steel
105mm rifled gun
12.7mm anti-aircraft machine gun, 7.62mm coaxial machine gun
1215L7BW diesel 581 hp (433 kW)
26.4hp/tonne
torsion bar
Land: 400 km (250 mi), Sea 120 km (65 nmi)
Land 75 km/h (47 mph), Swim 14 km/h (7.6 kn)
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Type 63A light tank equipment records. Variants, orders and quantities are shown as reported in each inventory source; coverage is incomplete.
Reported count for Type 63A. Service scope: Tanzanian Army; does not replace a national total. 1 distinct count cell(s) from the same source list; shared rowspan cells counted once. Retired, wholly reserve and on-order rows are excluded; the reported count retains any explicitly mixed stock scope in the quoted row. Count column(s): quantity: 24. Origin: China. The listed variants/roles are the scope, not an immediately deployable count. The components do not establish one inventory census date; the stored date is the retrieved source snapshot.