JAPANESE TANKS

Japan was one of the countries which develop the tank that even the world is little by themselves and which can produce it in the second world war.
But, most of the tanks were not the things which went over the toy stage by the thing which made that the Chinese army whose Japanese army is weak was attacked in the Chinese continent a purpose in the all side.
This thing was recognized far in former times to be defeated decisively in the Russian opportunity armor force (It is made to destroy it by Nazis Germany in the rest.) in Nomonhan (in the border of China and Mongolia) event in 1939 already.
But, it is defeated decisively in the opportunity armor force appropriated from the second big wartime latter half European front with being not improved at all by the bureaucratic negligence of the Japanese army and the expenses by the operations in the continent.
Though the Japanese army somewhat made a countermeasure, too, it reached a stage to go and to be silly as for the correspondence 【 the hand delay 】.
It was the general people who had the soldier sent to the front, that is, conscription done that died
Though the symbol had been already helpless even in Nomonhan event, it was type97 middle tank which was the main force on the number to the end of a war.
This country felt the sorrow of the people made to clear the incompetent aspect which it will continue to before long, and the price by following the improvement process of this tank, or it tried to make it thought 3DCG.

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Type 97 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

Type 97 improve 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

type1 middle tank 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

Type 3 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

ASSUAULT GUN TYPE1 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

Reference

The main force tank of the mechanization force (Green Arrow publication)
The battle vehicles of the empire land navy (Delta publication)
Monthly PANZER '92/7 (Sunday Art company)
Monthly PANZER '96/11 and '96/7 (Sunday Art company)
Big counterattack set gun tank force (Fiying sky publication/Takuma Kageyama)