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Old 02-25-2011, 07:12 PM
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Maybe they were part of this lot:
"In late 1993 Russia signed a contract with the People's Republic of China for the sale of 200 T-80U MBTs for evaluation. For unknown reasons only 50 were delivered." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-80#Pe...ublic_of_China)
Makes one wonder how the T-80 export model fared against the "home-consumption" model in the Sino-Soviet clash?
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