Li-Meng Yan and Lude Media revealed that Chinese Communist Party tried to cover up problems of quality, corruption and flaws in relation to T- 59 modified tanks (T-59G) resulting in casualties in target shooting test in Bangladesh.
On 5 May 2024, The newly delivered T- 59 modified tanks (T-59G) to Bangladesh were tested in Chattogram for target shooting, resulting in casualties. The CCP and Bangladeshi militaries strictly blocked the news, involving the CCP's large-scale corruption of the military of the Belt and Road countries. Experts of People's Republic of China (PRC) are going to blame Pakistan-made ammunition for the accident, and cover-up the fatal flaws of Chinese T-59G tanks.
Here is the CCP's report translated by Dr Li-Meng Yan, with original contents in Chinese of Lude Media.
Technical team work on site in Bangladesh
As soon as the accident occurred, Norinco’s First Department of Military Affairs reported it to the relevant departments of the company in a timely manner, and communicated with domestic factories in China, including 447, 803 and other departments, as soon as possible.
- A Chinese working group was set up on site to conduct on-site investigation and recording.
- The situation is as follows:
1. The tank was checked internally and no fire was found. The tank's three defense systems are not activated and the inside of the tank is clean.
2. Only photos can be seen of the injured personnel in the tanks. The fragments of the gear plate and bolt body that caused casualties were left at the scene and photographed.
- The Bangladeshi operator violated target practice requirements and failed to install the right artillery protective plate.
3. The tank bolt body is stuck and cannot be opened at present, and the state of the steel bottom for ammunition firing cannot be seen. - (This fault phenomenon has happened when the Bangladesh side using the third batch of T-59G tanks provided by us in 2022 during daily target training in Chittagong in February this year. - During the tank shooting, 2 of the 6 tanks suffered from this type of failure. The bolt body became stuck after firing.
- The faulty tank could not be rectified in the field. The Bangladeshi side deliberately sent the faulty tank to the 902 workshop and asked Chinese experts to help solve the problem. Even though the team used special tooling and other technical measures, it was impossible to open the bolt body and take out the bottom of the bomb.
- Therefore, we sent a 447 artillery disassembly expert to work in Bangladesh in mid-April, preparing to complete the disassembly of the turret and artillery in late May 2024.
- After the jamming failure occurred in March 2024, the Chinese expert team informed the 902 Factory that the cause of the failure was not the tank problem, but the jamming caused by the use of Pakistani ammunition, and there was a risk of future use.
- The Chinese side reminded Bangladesh of the ammunition issue. 902 Factory also reported to the Armored Bureau via phone simultaneously).
4. The on-site Chinese working group, with the cooperation of Bangladeshi personnel, used on-site iron wire testing, and basically found that the stuck steel bottom had holes underneath, and the iron wire could easily pass through. The steel bottom of the Pakistan artillery used has been penetrated and holes have appeared.
5. Ten sets of AP (armor-piercing ammunition) steel bases already used by the Bangladeshi side were sampled on site. The steel numbers were exactly the same and indistinguishable.
- China has asked Bangladesh to seal some of the unused ammunition together with the first three items and send it to the 902 factory, waiting for further instructions from China.
After one day of research, the Chinese domestic opinions on the three issues raised by Bangladesh are as follows:
1. Cause of the accident:
- Domestic experts have initially judged that the damage caused by the accident must have come from the ammunition.
- And due to the problem of the ammunition, it also caused serious ablation and further damage to the inside of the artillery.
- The following method is planned:
1.1 Send the tank to the 902 Factory, and China and Bangladesh will jointly open the bolt. If the bolt cannot be opened, the gun must be disassembled and the stuck steel bottom must be removed.
- Then, without ammunition, check whether the bolt opening action is normal to determine whether the performance of the gunpowder is normal.
1.2 Observe the stuck steel bottom to determine the condition of the cartridge case, including cracks and deformation.
- (Based on the position of the jet airflow at the end of the run at the scene, it should be that there are cracks in the upper right and lower right sides of the steel bottom of the cartridge case.)
- To be specific, you need to open the bolt body and observe the condition of the steel bottom.
1.3 The penetration of the steel bottom is a serious ammunition accident.
- It is recommended that foreign parties immediately stop using this batch of ammunition.
2. Whether accident-related protective measures exist on the vehicle and why they are ineffective:
- For safety reasons, the tank factory specially designed the artillery hazard protection plate, including a latch plate on the left side and a latch cover on the right side. However, the design of the anti-hazard plate cannot fully protect against serious ammunition accidents.
- The left protective plate has already played some role in protecting the commander and gunner in serious accidents. However, in order to observe the ammunition loading position, the loader removed the aluminum plate - bolt guard plate on the right side, which ultimately caused a vicious accident.
3. Why was the re-advancement not completed?
- The problem of insufficient re-advancement. The mechanism action during artillery firing:
- After the artillery enters the chamber and closes the latch, the primer is ignited. High pressure is generated in the chamber, and the high-temperature gas pushes the artillery forward. The recoil part moves backward, and when the recoil position is reached, the energy stored in the recuperator is used to push the recoil part forward.
- During the re-advance movement, the breech block is opened by a semi-automatic machine, the cartridge is drawn out, and the barrel is drawn out to hang the bolt body.
- According to the on-site measurement, the distance before re-advance is 152mm. After analysis, this position is the starting position of the latch, which is consistent with the normal working condition of the artillery.
- At the scene, the breech block was not opened, the cartridge case was left in the chamber, and the re-advancement was not in place. It is related to the resistance encountered by the re-advance latch. The resistance comes from the compression of the latch body and the running tail by the cartridge case.
Report on the domestic processing situation in Norinco Company
1. Norinco’s regional department, quality department, representative office, first department of military affairs, and related factories established an accident investigation team.
2. The Chinese on-site working team has coordinated with the Bangladeshi side to seal up the tanks, ammunition and other materials involved in the accident as necessary and send them to the 902 factory.
3. Chinese experts will arrange on-site Chinese personnel or domestic personnel to conduct technical appraisals related to the accidental artillery. At the same time, they will prepare the procedures for technical personnel from relevant ammunition factories and steel bottom factories to go labroad, and provide certain technical support to Bangladesh when necessary.
4. China recommends that Bangladesh suspend the use of this ammunition to prevent the next injury, and that Bangladesh should request the ammunition supplier POF to conduct on-site identification and processing of ammunition as soon as possible. - Before issuing written opinions to foreign personnel in China, it is recommended that the representative office inform Bangladesh of the cause of the accident and domestic measures as soon as possible.
• (From) PRC's State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, on 7 May 2024
This news is firstly reported by Dr Li-Meng Yan in English at X and by Lude Media in Chinese at YouTube and Rumble.
According to my professional experience in China as an financial auditor previously hired by PRC's government agencies and state-owned enterprises, some of which have now been designated as military-industrial entities by US Department of Defence, the above incident was highly likely true and really. When I audited a highway project, I discovered that some project sectors were subcontracted to companies not established at the date of construction work,and records of labour work were made using pencils providing flexibility of falsifying, while bidding comparison records or records of randomly selecting samples from products to be installed for quality testing were missing. Randomly selecting samples from products delivered or to be installed matters, as cheators like employees of CCP could produce fake quality reports by testing the few good quality products not selected from products delivered or to be installed. Pakistan's National Auditor has also discovered significant problems of projects completed by PRC's companies. It is not surprised at all that CCP often installed surveillance function in the hidden part of project to compromise national security of host countries. PRC's government often paid subsidies to companies and should surely expect that compensated parties provide consideration for the subsidies, then the consideration being likely the intelligence or data collected from consumers and users of host countries as materials for cloud computing or big data analysis performed by PRC's military force and police, or loyality from host countries' government officials. You should really think twice before considering hiring, using, procuring or paying your hard-earned money for products, labour work or machines of PRC's companies.
It is further revealed by Lude Media at X in Chinese that the barrel material processing technology of CCP's Type 59 modified tank failed following Western sanctions, and it deformed after firing dozens of shells, causing air leakage to make shock waves that caused death. The Chinese Communist Party deceived the Bangladeshi military and shirked responsibility by saying that it was attributed to the use of cheap shells from Pakistan.
James shared the same thought in Chinese at X, translated as follows,
The tanks delivered by the Chinese Communist Party to Bangladesh had a serious accident. It sounded like the barrel exploded! And there was no protective plate installed. It could be a problem with the quality of the gunpowder, or it could be that explosives were put in the gunpowder! In short, I think the quality of the Chinese Communist Party’s weapons is not good.
Original report by Lude Media in Chinese at Rumble
