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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.
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 ...
This is a list of armour used by the Imperial Japanese Army in the Second Sino-Japanese War. The present list also includes other military armoured vehicles in use at the time ( armoured personnel carriers , armoured cars , armoured trains , etc.).
This is a list of Japanese infantry weapons in Second Sino-Japanese War. ... of German PAK 35/36 captured to Chinese) ... Type 98 military sword; Infantry armor;
Japanese version of Kevlar PASGT helmet, replacing Type 66 helmet. Combat Bullet-Proof Vest Bullet-proof vest The first body armor to be fully introduced by the Japan Self-Defense Forces in 1992. It is one piece of equipment adopted as part of the combat wear set, and is modeled after the US military's PASGT. Type 2 bullet-proof vest
The earliest Japanese armour is thought to have evolved from the armour used in ancient China. [ 1 ] [ 10 ] Cuirasses and helmets were manufactured in Japan as early as the 4th century CE. [ 1 ] Tankō , worn by foot soldiers and keikō , worn by horsemen were both pre-samurai types of early Japanese cuirass constructed from iron plates ...
Ashigaru wearing armor and jingasa firing tanegashima (Japanese matchlocks). Ashigaru (足軽, "light of foot") were infantry employed by the samurai class of feudal Japan.The first known reference to ashigaru was in the 14th century, [1] but it was during the Ashikaga shogunate (Muromachi period) that the use of ashigaru became prevalent by various warring factions.
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.