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The Type 88 was superior to the Type 11 in accuracy and range of fire. [7] The Type 88 75 mm AA gun entered service between 1927 and 1928, and was deployed to virtually every anti-aircraft field artillery unit as protection against medium level aircraft attacks. Although it was a difficult and expensive weapon for Japan to produce with its ...
The Type 99 88 mm AA gun (九九式八糎高射砲, Kyūkyū-shiki hassenchi Koshahō) was an anti-aircraft gun used by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. The Type 99's number was designated for the year the gun was accepted, 2599 in the Japanese imperial year calendar (1939 in the Gregorian calendar ).
As of 2021, the active modelgun manufacturers in Japan are Marushin, Tanaka Works, HWS (Hartford Work Shop), KSC, CAW (Craft Apple Works), Tanio Koba, Elan and Hobby Fix. Among them, Marushin and HWS also offer modelgun kits for sale. There are two other companies producing modelguns outside Japan: HawSan and Denix.
The Type 88 surface-to-ship missile (88式地対艦誘導弾, SSM-1) is a truck-mounted anti-ship missile developed by Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in the late 1980s. It is a land-based version of the air-launched Type 80 (ASM-1) missile ; in turn it was developed into the ship-launched Type 90 (SSM-1B) missile .
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The Type 88 number was designated for the year the aircraft was accepted, which was the year 2588 in the Japanese imperial year calendar, or 1928 in the Gregorian calendar. [2] The basic design was modified into the Type 88 Light Bomber that was used in combat over China in the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Type 88 was built in large numbers ...
A former owner of a pet shop and mahjong parlors in Japan has invested his way to eight figures — and earned the nickname Japan’s Warren Buffett. At 88, Shigeru Fujimoto of Kobe, often seen in ...
TOKYO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden is seeking to revive interest in a plan to build the first high-speed rail in the U. S. using Japanese bullet trains, with sources saying he is ...