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The Type 4 light tank Ke-Nu (四式軽戦車 ケヌ, Yon-shiki keisensha Kenu) was an innovation created to increase the number of light tanks available to front-line infantry divisions of the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II.
The Imperial Japanese Army General Staff realized that the Type 95 was vulnerable to heavy machinegun fire–0.5 in (13 mm)–so it determined the development of a new light tank with the same weight as the Type 95, but with thicker armor was needed.
America's first tank versus tank battle of World War II occurred when Type 95 light tanks of the IJA 4th Tank Regiment engaged a US Army tank platoon, consisting of five brand new M3 Stuart light tanks from "B" company, 192nd Tank Battalion, on 22 December 1941, north of Damortis during the retreat to the Bataan Peninsula in 1941. [76]
Special number 3 light tank Ku-Ro – airborne light tank carried by glider Ku-6 (early development version known as So-Ra); prototype, mockup only; Type 3 Ke-Ri – Type 95 Ha-Go tank with 57 mm main gun. Prototype failed army trials in 1943; Type 4 Ke-Nu – Ha-Go hull with a 57 mm main gun in a Chi-Ha turret
Experimental light tank Type 3 Ke-Ri; ... List of armoured fighting vehicles used by the Imperial Japanese Army in the Second Sino-Japanese War ... Japanese Tanks ...
The Type 4 Ke-Nu (四式軽戦車 ケヌ, Yon-shiki keisensha Kenu) was a light tank of the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II. It was a conversion of existing Type 95 Ha-Go light tanks, re-fitted with the larger turret of the Type 97 Chi-Ha medium tank.
Type 89 I-Go medium tanks (Type 89A I-Go Kō and Type 89B I-Go Otsu) [1] Type 92 heavy armoured car Jyu-Sokosha - tankette [2] Type 94 tankette [3] Type 97 Te-Ke tankette [4] Type 95 Ha-Go light tank [5] Type 97 Chi-Ha medium tank [6] Type 97 ShinHōtō Chi-Ha medium tank [7] Panzer I - German light tank, captured from Chinese forces; Vickers ...
The Type 98 light tank Ke-Ni (九八式軽戦車 ケニ, Kyuhachi-shiki keisensha Ke-Ni) or Type 98A Ke-Ni Ko (also known as Type 98 Chi-Ni light tank [4]) was designed to replace the Imperial Japanese Army's Type 95 Ha-Go light tank, Japan's most numerous armored fighting vehicle during World War II. Although designed before World War II began ...