The Chinese Tank, From Hell

Item #: SCP-4279

Object Class: Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4279, is to be kept in a 6m X 6m room with steels walls 7m thick, in site 22B. The object must be kept under twenty four hour watch at all times to prevent a containment breach.

Description: SCP-4279 is a Chinese tank model from the late 50s in perfect condition when discovered. The tank was confirmed to be a Type 59 model tank, this particular one was carbon dated and confirmed to have been made in 1972. According to the records about this tank which was discovered in 2002 stated the tank fell off a boat in a storm on it's way to Mexico in 1990. However, the location of this object was discovered at doesn't fit in. It was discovered 2 miles east of the Shinano River in Japan. When discovered the tank was moving away from the river, the JSDF encircled the, what they thought was a small invasion with tanks. When the object didn't fire, the Japanese investigated the object and discovered there was no one in there. Three minutes after they investigated, 3 tankers randomly dropped and died. The cause of death was interior bleeding. Both of them investigated the object and there elbows were blood red after they touched the object. Japanese authorities then handed SCP-4279 to the SCP Foundation.

SCP authorities, when they walk by SCP-4279's containment room, hear sounds that range from a engine firing up, to the tank firing it's large gun, however when investigating the containment room show's no evidence that the tank was active or even fired it's gun.

SCP-4279 can sometimes be spotted with ghostly figures coming in and out of the tank, mainly at night between 23:00 - 04:00. In some rare occasions, the ghostly men can be spotted around the facility within 400 ft. from SCP-4279's containment area.


Addendum

SCP Review Notes:

SCP-4279 tends to randomly move around it's containment room with no one inside the tank.

The SCP foundation discovered that this tank has a weird spell that anyone who doesn't have gloves on, and they touch this tank, the subject would begin to bleed to death within 2 minutes of touching the tank. Death then will arrive after 1 minute after subject starts to bleed to death.

Recall Protocol:

If SCP-4279 breaches containment, a Class D who is trained of the basics of driving a tank, must be sent to attempt to jump on the tank and bring it back to it's containment cell. If Class D attempts to escape in the tank. NTF has the order to jump on the tank and terminate the D Class on site, in the tank. If SCP-4279 escapes from the SCP facility, NTF must terminate SCP-4279 as soon as possible before it gets to a populated area.