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Middle tank Type 97 The main force
tank of the big Japanese empire army in type97e middle
tank the 2nd world war.
Incidentally, only the army is not, and even the Marine
Corps are being used for most AFV.
This tank is the thing developed as a heat support tank
which originally acted together with the infantryman
force.
It was the time when there was only Mk.1 tank place in
the case of the 1st great war if an experience was still
said when Type97 middle tank was developed.
But, the development of the tank that an encounter car
battle is possible proceeded in each country.
Therefore, 97-type carried 75mm Mountain Gun, and the
Japanese army should have secured the fire power if it
was designed by Type97 improvement-type specification of
inserting 97-type middle tank in the bottom from the
beginning or it concentrated on the infantryman support.
Gun tank which actually carried 75mm Mountain Gun on
Type97 middle tank and Type1 middle tank is being made.
But, it thinks about nothing, there is an origin of the
various evil in having equipped the gun of the gun body
of 57mm caliber of the improvement type of the short gun
equipped with 89-type middle tank of the (it think about
bullet fee) predecessor.
It became a thing with the tank that a dead body was
exposed to a waste in each front in the Type97 without
increasing thicknesses though there was a thickness of
armor 【 only maximum 25mm 】 and it was pierced easily
in the Russian army in Nomonnha event.
After all, a Type97 tank was the tank used only in the
weak guerrilla (the Chinese army in those days) and the
colony garrison (the ground army of each place in Asia of
the outbreak of war beginning) place.
It is only that it was equipped with this tank prior to
the world in the good place be diesel engine.
A diesel engine has the characteristics that it doesn't
catch fire easily even if there is little consumption of
the fuel and (Moreover, the gasoline which is the fuel of
the aircraft isn't consumed, and it is finished.), a
bullet hit it.
Only, it was the northern east of China whose it is cold
in the use schedule area at the time of this tank, and an
engine was being refrigerated from water's being hard to
obtain, too, by air.
It is said that an engine is etched well, and there is a
tank in the Type97 being used in the southern force.
Crew:4
Weight:15.0t
Length:5.52m Width:2.33m Heigth:2.23m
Engine:170PS/2000rpm
Armor:(Hull)Front:25mm Side:25-20mm Rea:r20mm (Turret)Front:25mm
Side:25mm Rear:25mm
Armament:Type97 57mmTank Gun*1/Type97hevy MG*2
Speed:38km/h
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Middle tank Type 97 improve The
Japanese army was destroyed in Nomonhan event because the
tank gun of the gun body which was the main gun of the
tank in the Type97 and which is short by 57mm couldn't
pierce armor of the Russian tank at all.
And, it was really helpless in the M3 light tank as well
in the great war beginning.
The tank developed in a hurry so that this might improve
it is Type97 Improvement type .
It is changed into the turret which the gun of the short
barrel of 57mm of the Type97 tank was piled to, and the
thing which the new turret which the gun of the long
barrel of 47mm whose first spead is high was carried on
was carried on and which was done is the only change
Because the diameter of the turret ring was increased, a
cap for the front machine guner disappears as a change
point on the body side.
The appearance time of Type97 tank Improvement typei was
March, 1942, and the mass production of the M4 Sherman
tank equipped with 75mm gun in America this 1 month ago
had begun, and it had already been the improvement of the
hand delay at this moment.
Crew:4
Weight:15.8t
Length:5.52m Width:2.33m Heigth:2.28m
Engine:170PS/2000rpm
Armor:(Hull)Front:25mm Side:25-20mm Rea:r20mm (Turret)Front:25mm
Side:25mm Rear:25mm
Armament:Type1 47mmTank Gun*1/Type97hevy MG*2
Speed:38km/h
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Middle tank Type 1 It is the type
which an engine was replaced , this body making by
welding, the thickness of the armor are increased with as
for Type97 tank Improvement type.
Originally, before the second world war begins, it is the
tank that the number of the necessity had to be equal.
But, a trouble occurred in succession by a suspension
just like the Type97 not standing up to weight by
increasing the thicknesses of armor in 1-type middle
tank.
1-type (1-year-type = japan Emperor year for 2501-year =
A.D. for 1941-year) or 1944 A.D. actually came, and it
was put to practical use.
Though it was late here, there was no great difference
with the Type97 fundamentally, and didn't influence the
war situation at all.
Crew:5
Weight:17.2t
Length:5.73m Width:2.33m Heigth:2.38m
Engine:240PS/2000rpm
Armor:(Hull)Front:50mm Side:25-20mm Rea:r20mm (Turret)Front:50mm
Side:25mm Rear:25mm
Armament:Type1 47mmTank Gun*1/Type97hevy MG*2
Speed:44km/h
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Middle tank Type 3 The final
development type of the tank is this type3 middle tank in
the Type97.
An improvement point from 1-type middle tank is type3
75mm tank gun 2-type which is unusually carried on the
huge turret.
The about same fight power in a type M4 Sherman 75mm gun
which was a finally serious pending question, and the
catalog specifications was decided to have it by this.
But, type3 middle tank was the stuff which could show
only the performance which was actually greatly inferior
to M4, the Sherman.
First, the biggest 3-type middle tank problem is that it
was the tank of urgent making.
The Japanese army should have produced more powerful
type4 middle tank or type5 middle tank with the
possibility that it is equal to the German type Tiger1
more than the origin in the large size .
But, it is the tank which endured the problem that the
Japanese army varied because of the delay of this
development and which was used.
Crew:5
Weight:17.2t
Length:5.73m Width:2.33m Heigth:2.61m
Engine:240PS/2000rpm
Armor:(Hull)Front:50mm Side:25-20mm Rea:r20mm (Turret)Front:50mm
Side:25mm Rear:25mm
Armament:Type3 75mmTank Gun*1/Type97hevy MG*2
Speed:39km/h
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Assult Gun Type1 (novel edition) It is
the self propelld anti tank gun that Takuma Kageyama
appears in the written imagination battle notes novel
"big counterattack set gun tank force".
Though it is really another tank with type1 gun tank
which exists, it is the most powerful, and this tank has
actuality as a plan that a tank is improved in the
Type97.
So, it tried to create this tank with 3DCG.
Crew:5
Weight:17.2t
Length:6.35m Width:2.33m Heigth:2.61m
Engine:240PS/2000rpm
Armor:(Hull)Front:25mm Side:25-20mm Rea:r20mm (Turret)Front:80mm
Side:25mm Rear:25mm
Armament:Type99 88mmTank Gun*1/Type97hevy MG*2
Speed:39km/h
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