Restored japanses tanks

[Pharnakes]

Shamelessly ripped form another forum...

First tank, Type 95 Ha-Go, restored by Oregon Military Museum team.
Some restoration pics you can find here:
http://www.g503.com/forums/viewtopic...highlight=type
And final pics:
http://www.g503.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=116393
Video:
http://imageevent.com/ricklarson/videos

Second tank, Type 89 Chi-Ro Otsu, restored in Tsuchiura Training Center, Ibaragi (Japan), in 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrPSuZjfI9k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2t7JuEamio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMexC0q_fQo

 

[Britney Federline]

Man, this makes me want to pitch my China-Japan WWII game/RO mod idea again.

What are those--early war heavy tanks, or did the Japanese never make anything bigger than that?

 

[Reddog]

Japanese never even really made a proper medium tank as far as I can remember. Their armour was generally garbage.

 

[Peter.Steele]

Wow ... those almost look like tanks, only smaller.

 

[R1G4M0RT1Z]

Japanese never even really made a proper medium tank as far as I can remember. Their armour was generally garbage.

Armour looks more like 'metal' to me

 

[Colt .45 killer]

biggest gun on a japanese tank in ww2 was about 47mm as i remember, meaning that while the sherman got its booty kicked in the euro theatre, it played tiger tiger with the japanese tanks. not that japanese strategy really hinged on tanks though...

 

[Bluehawk]

Their tanks were more than adequate at dominating the future republics of the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere.

 

[American_Psycho]

Yes they crushed many unarmed chinese civilians.

 

[LukeFF]

biggest gun on a japanese tank in ww2 was about 47mm as i remember, meaning that while the sherman got its booty kicked in the euro theatre, it played tiger tiger with the japanese tanks. not that japanese strategy really hinged on tanks though...

The Type 89 had a 57mm gun.

 

[Colt .45 killer]

well i was one number off, still though the sherman was a 75mm gun.

 

[karl stiner]

its funny the Japanese never really got into tanks i think they found it a disgrace to fight inside a hunk of on metal on the ground

 

[Bluehawk]

Then why did they have such an (initially) impressive navy and airforce, if such hunks of metal were disgraceful?

 

[odin1899]

The same reason why Germany had a ****ty navy?

 

[karl stiner]

Then why did they have such an (initially) impressive navy and airforce, if such hunks of metal were disgraceful?

i said on the ground yes the Japs used to love to fly and fight in the air i had a book on Japanese kites and it said many Japanese young men fell in love with the prospect of flight when making kites, even take there Army Officer's Gunto sword with them in the cockpit a nice kite picture ohh and this is the Gunto sword http://japaneseswords.gotdns.com/ProductImages/ShortKatana.jpg