The Type 99 MBT was China's first mass-produced third-generation main battle tank. The vehicle was a replacement for the aging Type 88 introduced in the late 1980s. The Type 99 ( Chinese: 99式主战坦克 pinyin: Jiǔjiǔshì Zhǔzhàn Tǎnkè) or ZTZ-99 is a Chinese third generation main battle tank (MBT). Off-road: 54 kilometres per hour (34 mph) Probably a million bucks, easy.600 kilometres (370 mi)–650 kilometres (400 mi) There's nothing large enough to base a cheesy replica on, though, so you'd do a lot of fabrication to make a non-armored driving version.

For all that? Probably at least 50 million for an extrapolated-from-records accurate replica. The Maus is even larger and would need serious design work since much of it was never made beyond the prototype. (You can buy a T-72 for $50k or something like that if you shop around, so it's a good base, but the road wheels are just so wrong.) If you wanted a more accurate hull (.since T-72 road wheels look nothing like a Tiger) you'd need more. A nice-looking replica on top of a T-72 hull (which I've seen! movies tend to use them) would probably be at least $300k. 10 million dollars would be a start, and expect probably 20. In the end, over 5 million bucks.įigure if you're starting from blueprints and going for complete accuracy, you'd have to build a hull (probably including remaking the alloys, so there's probably 500k at least for modern Kruppstahl), and so on.

The turret had to be recast from a recreation of the original armor alloy by a foundry in San Jose.

He did have to have the tyres remade (by the original company, who still had the molds kicking around somewhere apparently), and new fabric-insulated wiring manufactured, and so on and so forth. If you wanted to build an accurate Tiger starting with nothing, figure probably at least 3 times that, since at least Littlefield had a pretty complete hull to start with. Rebuilding the Littlefield Panther cost roughly 5 million dollars.

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