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Join our squadron.īack in August, an image began circulating on social media, purporting to show a full-sized replica of a Chinese Type 99-A main battle tank on the back of a tractor trailer.

✈︎ Don't miss our best-in-class military coverage. But these aren't exactly your run-of-the-mill main battle tanks: they're dummies. Two tank sightings about one month (and thousands of miles) apart are pretty unsettling indicators of U.S.-Chinese relations at the moment.

The two "tanks" are likely training vehicles meant to familiarize the American and Chinese armies with each other's tanks.

About a month later, a remote-controlled target tank resembling the American M1A2 Abrams tank surfaced at an arms show in China.

In August, a model of a Chinese Type 99-A main battle tank was spotted in the U.S.