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Japanese Whippets. Near the end of World War I, the Japanese showed an interest in armored warfare and tanks and obtained a variety of models from foreign sources. These models included one British Heavy Mk IV and six Medium Mark A Whippets, along with thirteen French Renault FTs (later designated Ko-Gata Sensha or "Type A Tank").
List of Japanese tanks and armoured vehicles of the WWII period. ... Download as PDF; Printable version; ... List of Japanese armoured fighting vehicles of World War II;
O-I was the designation given to a proposed series of Japanese super-heavy tanks designed during World War II. The vehicle was planned to be very heavy and have a crew of 11. The complete history of the O-I is unknown, due to the “obscure” nature of the project and the limited documentation that survived post-war. [2] [3]
Japan built the Type 95 heavy tank in 1934, which was the final version of the Japanese multi-turreted designs, that had started back in 1931 with the prototype 18-ton Type 91 heavy tank. [31] Modeled from German and Italian tank designs, the Type 95 featured three turrets; the main armament being a 70 mm cannon with a 6.5 mm machine gun also ...
Type 89A I-Go tank of a SNLF unit. Type Ka Kijusha (a/k/a Type Ka machine gun car) (Carden Loyd tankette) Type 92 heavy armoured car ; Type 94 tankette; Type 97 Te-Ke tankette; Type 95 Ha-Go light tank; Type 89 I-Go medium tank (Chi-Ro) Type 97 Chi-Ha medium tank; Type 97 ShinHōtō Chi-Ha medium tank (Kai; improved)
This is a list of the Japanese armoured fighting vehicles of World War II. This list includes vehicles that never left the drawing board; prototype models and production models from after World War I , into the interwar period and through the end of the Second World War.
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. [1]
Type 4 15cm self-propelled gun Ho-Ro, side view. The hull selected was a modified Type 97 Chi-Ha medium tank chassis. [3] On to this platform, a Type 38 150 mm howitzer [4] based on a design by the German arms-manufacturer Krupp was mounted, but dated from 1905 and had been withdrawn from service as being obsolete in 1942. [5]