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Originally Posted by Jaakko
[-Did the Albanians have their Type-59 tanks (unit 019 updated in any way at any point? As it is in the game, they remain significantly less effective than the T-55 (017) and T-54 (014 & 015), with less effective ammo, less fire control value and no stabilizer value. This is important due to the relatively significant numbers in which the tank was exported to Albania (721 according to SIPRI).
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I will try to check but I would suspect they did not bother.
While stabilization systems of that era had some marginal usefulness it was something you could do without, many western tank designs lacked them well into the 60's and did just fine.
In a third world setting it was probably better not having them, what limited maintenance resources were available would better spent ensuring others more vital systems (engine etc.) were properly cared for.
The only worthile change would be adding a LRF and a digital ballistic computer. I suspect they could have afforded that only recently, if at all.