The only survivor tank with dismantled fire control system, ATGM launchers and a missile guidance system is now exhibited on the territory of the NORINCO plant in Inner Mongolia, another tank’s turret was on display at the Beijing tank museum. In April 1975, the Object 122TM project was finally closed. Despite the transition to a simpler mechanical transmission and torsion bar suspension, as well as correcting the teething issues of the first prototype, the reliability of the tank, as well as its high complexity in producatrion, still did not suit military authorities. The squadron earned its nickname after a daring strike mission on the Kalaikunda Air Force Station during the 1965 War in which F-86 Sabres from the No.14. Also, as in the previous Object 122TH design, the tank's turret had mounts for four ATGM launchers in the turret’s front. The tank received a new main gun, a domestic smoothbore 120 mm cannon.
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The second version of the tank - Object 122TM - was completed a year later. However, the tests revealed its complexity in production and extremely low reliability, and further development of the prototype was canceled. The first prototype of the Object 122TH with hydropneumatic suspension and hydraulic transmission appeared in 1970. After the Zhenbao/Damansky Island incident in 1969, the PLA army recognized the poor efficiency of the Type 59 tanks in service with China and decided to speed up work on the Object 122 project.
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In 1967 Chinese engineers began development of a new tank under the factory title Object 122.