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== Description ==
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=== Vehicles equipped with this weapon ===


* {{Specs-Link|cn_plz_83_130}}

== General info ==
''Tell us about the tactical and technical characteristics of the cannon or machine gun.''

=== Available ammunition ===
''Describe the shells that are available for the weapon and their features and purpose. If it concerns autocannons or machine guns, write about different ammo belts and what is inside (which types of shells).''

=== Comparison with analogues ===
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== Usage in battles ==
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=== Pros and cons ===
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== History ==
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== Media ==
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== See also ==
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{{China tank cannons}}

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 * Access to varieties of ammunition ranging from high-penetration APHE, smoke shell and up to HE-VT
 * Faster reload than non-autoloaded NATO 155 mm/Warsaw-Pact 152 mm guns
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 * Rather long barrel that reveals the vehicle's existence
 * Slow gun traverse
 == History ==

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 == Description ==
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+As the modified version for vehicular mounts, PL59A-130 (Previously Type 59-1; '''PL59A式130毫米加农炮''') was an experimental attempt to mount the workhorse of PLAGF artillery corps onto the newly developed PLZ83 SPH solely for export purpose while retaining the recoil mechanism from [[PL66 Gai (152 mm)|152 mm PL66 Gai]]. The base model, M1954 (M-46) and its Chinese licensed variant, PL59 have been the icon of the artillery corps since 1954/1959 as the replacement of previous 100 mm howitzer in Soviet Army; meanwhile, this gun would also be the longest range among any PLAGF artillery piece before the introduction of 155 mm GC-45 for more than 3 decades, which PL59 series proved their capabilities during the decade-long Sino-Vietnamese conflicts in 1980s.
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 == General info ==
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+'''''Note: based on the information of towed PL59A'''''
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 === Comparison with analogues ===
-''Give a comparative description of cannons/machine guns that have firepower equal to this weapon.''
+mm [[S-70 (130 mm)|C-70/S-70]] and [[M-65 (130 mm)|M-65]]: the trio shares same heritage from naval 130 mm; while the former shares identical penetration stats but at lower velocity, the latter achieves even higher penetration at 1000 m/s.
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 === Pros and cons ===
-''Summarise and briefly evaluate the weaponry in terms of its characteristics and combat effectiveness. Mark pros and cons as a list.''
+'''Pros:'''
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 '''Cons:'''
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 == History ==
-''Examine the history of the creation and combat usage of the weapon in more detail than in the introduction. If the historical reference turns out to be too long, take it to a separate article, taking a link to the article about the weapon and adding a block "/History" (example: <nowiki>https://wiki.warthunder.com/(Weapon-name)/History</nowiki>) and add a link to it here using the <code>main</code> template. Be sure to reference text and sources by using <code><nowiki><ref></ref></nowiki></code>, as well as adding them at the end of the article with <code><nowiki><references /></nowiki></code>.''
+As part of the program to replace already obsolete Interwar and WWII artillery pieces in Red Army service, MOTZ (Factory 172) of Perm developed two artilleries based on the same mount: M-46 and M-47 with 130 mm/152 mm respectively. Thanks to its long range among fellow Soviet howitzers at similar or even larger calibers, the gun has been the main composition of long-range artillery strikes against hostile artillery installations; meanwhile, to further increase the range of PLAGF artillery corps and replacing previous captured US and Japanese-built artillery, PLAGF introduced the M-46 and its schematics likely during the First Five-year Plan and manufactured by Factory 127 (now ''NORINCO Qiqihar Heping Heavy Industries'') by 1959 as the PL59. By 1960s, to address the suggestions from PLAGF and some flaws of PL59, Factory 127 revised the breech mechanism and utilized the mount of PL60-122 (122 mm D-74), later joining PLAGF as the PL59A as the main composition of the artillery corps; thanks to its long range and improvements of equipment with counter-battery radar, PL59 achieved exceptional efficiency during the Sino-Vietnamese conflicts where an artillery company claimed to wipe out an VPA artillery company with merely 24 shells, while serving as part of the army corps artillery with PL66-152 as the frontline fire support for PLAGF troops during the assault and the later standoffs on the borders.
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 == See also ==
 ''Links to the articles on the War Thunder Wiki that you think will be useful for the reader, for example:''
 * ''reference to the article about the variant of the cannon/machine gun;''
 * ''references to approximate analogues by other nations and research trees.''
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 == External links ==
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 * ''topic on the official game forum;''
 * ''other literature.''

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