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An example of this competition was the Army Type 4 20 cm rocket launcher and the 20 cm Naval Rocket Launcher. [2] The Type 4 20cm rocket mortar was developed in the final stages of World War II by the Japanese Army Technical Bureau, as a low-cost, easy to produce weapon, which had an advantage of greater accuracy over conventional mortars.
The Type 4 70 mm AT rocket launcher was a Japanese rocket launcher used during the last year of World War II. It was to be used in the Japanese mainland in case of an invasion by the Allies . It was comparable to the German Panzerschreck and the American bazooka .
An example of this competition was the Army Type 4 20 cm rocket launcher and the 20 cm naval rocket launcher. [3] The 20 cm naval rocket launcher was developed in the final stages of World War II by the Japanese Navy, as a low-cost, easy to produce weapon for use by naval troops as a last-ditch weapon for the defense of Japanese occupied islands.
The Type 4 light tank Ke-Nu (四式軽戦車 ケヌ, Yon-shiki keisensha Kenu) was an innovation created to increase the number of light tanks available to front-line infantry divisions of the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II. Through the modernization of Type 97 Chi-Ha medium tanks, in which its 57 mm gun turrets were replaced with 47 mm ...
Empire of Japan: Service history; In service: 1943–1945: Used by: Imperial Japanese Army: Wars: World War II: Production history; Designed: 1944 [1] Produced: 1945 [2] No. built: 1,700 wooden launchers during 1945, less than 200 rockets starting May 1945 [3] Specifications; Mass: 220 kilograms (490 lb) Barrel length: 3.22 metres (10 ft 7 in)
The following is a list of Japanese military equipment of World War II which includes artillery, vehicles and vessels, and other support equipment of both the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA), and Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) from operations conducted from start of Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 to the end of World War II in 1945.
25 mm Rocket Gun Launcher; 80 mm Anti-Tank Rocket Launcher; 100 mm Anti-Tank Rocket Launcher; 120 mm Rocket Launcher; 120 mm Six-Rocket Launcher; 200 mm Rocket Launcher Model 1; 200 mm Rocket Launcher Model 2; 200 mm Rocket Launcher Model 3; 450 mm Heavy Rocket Launcher; Type 6 Ground Use Bomb Projection Rocket Launcher Model 11
The Type 89 grenade discharger (八 九 式 重 擲弾筒, Hachikyū-shiki jū-tekidantō), inaccurately and colloquially known as a knee mortar by Allied forces, is a Japanese grenade launcher or light mortar that was widely used in the Pacific Theater of World War II. It got the nickname the "knee mortar" because of an erroneous Allied belief ...