![]() Improved versions, Type 69 and Type 79, also became export successes in the early 1980s with Iraq using hundreds of these affordable machines in the decade-long conflict with Iran. Type 59 MBTs appeared in many major conflicts since the 1970s, including the Vietnam War, with reasonable success. They were highly successful too, with thousands sold to third world countries all around the world starting from the mid-1960s. Type 85 development was not the first Chinese attempt at building an export tank, but all previous attempts had been based on the Type 59 chassis one way or another. Unlike the Type 88, the Type 85 was built purely for export and it was actually relatively successful when it came to that, but it took a lot of time to achieve that success. The Type 85 Main Battle Tank is an evolution of the Type 80, which was discussed in our previous article.
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