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This overall design was called "shining armor" (Chinese: 明光甲; pinyin: míngguāngjiǎ). [63] There is an alternative theory that mountain pattern armour is simply a result of very stylistic depictions of mail armour, [64] but known depictions of mail armour in Chinese art do not match with mountain pattern armour either.
Chinese Type 62 light tank at the China People's Revolution Military Museum. The Norinco Type 62 is a Chinese light tank developed in the early 1960s and is based on the Type 59 with a reduced main gun caliber, lighter armour and a smaller suite of electronics and other equipment to help reduce weight. It had been upgraded to modern standards ...
Some Japanese tanks remained in use, under new ownership, postwar by both sides during the Chinese Civil War. Japanese units in China that surrendered to the National Revolution Army at the end of war turned over their armor to the Republic of China. By the time the civil war restarted the Nationalist 3rd Tank regiment based in Beijing was ...
The following is a list of military equipment of the ROC in World War II (1937–1945) [1] which includes aircraft, artillery, small arms, vehicles and vessels. This list covers the equipment of the National Revolutionary Army, various warlords and including the Collaborationist Chinese Army and Manchukuo Imperial Army, as well as Communist guerillas, encompassing the period of the Second ...
Lamellar armour reached Japan around the 5th century, predating the rise of the samurai caste. [4] Early Japanese lamellar armour, called keiko, took the form of a sleeveless jacket and a helmet. [9] The middle of the Heian period was when lamellar armour started to take the shape that would be associated with samurai armour.
Both the M3 and Type 95 light tanks were armed with a 37 mm gun, but the M3 was better armored, with 32 mm (1¼ inches) thick turret sides, [77] vs the Type 95's 12 mm thick armor; however, as the US Army's Ballistics Research Lab (BRL) found after conducting its first large study of tank vs tank warfare in 1945, the most important factor in a ...
Japanese armour was generally constructed from many small iron (tetsu) and/or leather (nerigawa) scales (kozane) and/or plates (ita-mono), connected to each other by rivets and macramé cords (odoshi) made from leather and/or braided silk, and/or chain armour . Noble families had silk cords made in specific patterns and colors of silk thread.
The term Collaborationist Chinese Army refers to the military forces of the puppet governments founded by Imperial Japan in mainland China during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. They include the armies of the Provisional (1937–1940), Reformed (1938–1940) and Reorganized National Governments of the Republic of China (1940 ...