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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.
Older tanks continued to be used as defensive emplacements and infantry support weapons. Advanced Japanese tank designs, which could challenge Allied tanks did not appear until the close of World War II; as with many innovative weapons projects launched by Japan in the final years of the war, production could not advance beyond either small ...
Toggle Japanese tanks and armoured vehicles subsection. 1.1 Tankettes. 1.2 Light tanks. 1.3 Medium tanks. 1.4 Heavy tanks. 1.5 Amphibious tanks. 1.6 Self-propelled guns.
The following is a list of Japanese military equipment of World War II which includes artillery, vehicles and vessels, and other support equipment of both the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA), and Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) from operations conducted from start of Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 to the end of World War II in 1945.
Main battle tank Japan: 111 [48] (10 on order budget 2024) Built by Mitsubishi. Type 90: Main battle tank Japan: 340 [49] [50] Built by Mitsubishi until 2009. Mitsubishi Type 89 IFV: Infantry fighting vehicle Japan: 70 [51] Built by Mitsubishi and Komatsu: Type 16 MCV: Wheeled tank destroyer Japan: 100 (2023) Built by Mitsubishi.
From early 1930s, the Japanese army began experimenting with a mechanized warfare unit combining infantry with tanks. However, the Type 89 Medium tank could not keep pace with the motorized infantry, which could move at 40 km/h (25 mph) by truck.
1st Tank Division (IJA) organization, 1945. The 1st Tank Division, after being relocated to Japan in 1945, consisted of a division headquarters, two tank regiments (roughly battalion-sized), one motorized infantry regiment, one motorized artillery regiment, one anti-tank battalion, one motor transport battalion, one maintenance battalion, and one engineer battalion.
The Type 2 gun tank Ho-I (二式砲戦車 ホイ, Ni-shiki hōsensha Ho-I) was a derivative of the Type 97 Chi-Ha medium tanks of the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II. Similar in concept to the early variants of the German Panzer IV , it was designed as a self-propelled howitzer to provide the close-in fire support for standard Japanese ...