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Posted on 10/04/2004 11:25:00 PM PDT by SAMWolf
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 are acknowledged, affirmed and commemorated.
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 The Japanese didn't embrace the tank, as it didn't have the calvary tradition that the other countries that developed the tank more extensively had. In traditional Japan Calvary was used for reconnaissance in the mountainous countryside. After World War I the Japanese acquired several different foreign tanks (French Renault FT & NCI, and Britain's Vickers 6-Ton & Medium C). After analyzing them they began to develop light and medium tanks.  Type 94 'TK' tankettes in a street of Hoihow, on the Hainan Island in 1939. The first tank designed was the Type 87 (Experimental Tank Number 1) and was produced at the Osaka Arsenal in 1927. It had a crew of 5 and had a water cooled, 8 cylinder, gasoline engine that produced 140 hp. The maximum speed was 12.5 mph. It had a 57 mm gun in a turret with two 7.2 mm MG in a turret that was located at the front and rear of the hull. In 1925 2 tank companies were established, with one established at the Chiba Infantry School to study tank tactics. In the late 1920s 6 British Carden-Loyd Mark VI MG carriers and 2 Mark VIb carriers were purchased. After trials were conducted the Tokyo Gas and Electric Industry (later Hino Motors) built a prototype. It became the Type 94 Tankette.  Tankette Type 97 Te-Ke during the victory parade in Manilla in 1942. The Osaka Arsenal in March 1927, developed the Experimental Heavy Tank I. It weighed 22 tons, with 57 mm gun in the main turret, and 2 MGs in subsidiary turrets. In 1930 the 2nd Heavy tank was developed, but it only made some modifications from the first. In 1932 the Type 91 or Type 92 was developed. The Type 95 was then developed. However, no production orders were placed. In 1929 the Type 89 (Experimental Tank Number 2) was designed. It weighed 10,000 kg and had a turret mounted 37 mm gun, a turret rear MG, and a bow mounted MG. It's engine was a 6 cylinder gasoline Daimler that propelled it to 15 mph. Mitsubishi started production on it as the Type 98 Medium tank.  Type 95 Ha-Go destroyed towards the end of the war By 1932, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries was producing an air-cooled diesel engine that was suitable for tanks. This was placed experimentally into a Type 89. This later became known as the Type 89-B. In 1933 Major Tomio Hara designed the basis of many of the suspensions of future Japanese tanks, the bellcrank scissors which had paired bogie wheels connected by a coil spring. During the 1930s the Japanese considered mechanization. Studies focused on armored cars at first, but with the terrain in Asia, it was decided to go with tracked vehicles. Ishikawaijma designed the Type 92 'combat car'.  This tank seems to have been abandoned somewhere on the edge of the airstrip. A tri-color camoflage can clearly be seen on this tank. Four tank regiments were formed during 1933-34 in Japan and Manchuria. Three of the regiments had 2 companies of 10 Type 89s each. The 4th had 3 Type 89 companies and was known as the Independent Mixed Brigade which included:
 Type 89 By 1937 Japan had approximately 1,060 tanks and 8 tank regiments. During the war in China the Japanese used the tanks as mobile pillboxes as the Chinese didn't have quantities of antitank weapons. Also air-cooled diesel engines were preferred as water was scarce in Mongolia, Manchuria, and North China. After the battle of Khalkin Gol in 1939 against the Russians and the successes in Europe by the Germans, 2 armored divisions were formed in 1940 in Manchukuo.  Type 4 Chi-To During most of the war the Japanese focused their industry on building warships and aircraft during the war years as they were the more prestigious weapons of the time. By 1945 production was to be concentrated on the defence of the Japanese homeland, and tanks finally got higher priority, but this was too late.  Type 92 Notes: The names were based on the last 2 digits of the year in the Japanese calendar. The Japanese Empire was founded in 660 B.C. (Add 660 to western calendar to get year in Japanese calendar. Sensha (from word sen which meant battle, and sha which meant wagon)
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Morning Colonel.
The FT-17 was outdated before WWII, but if you have any tanks and the other guy has none even the FT-17 was effective.
I agree with you on the bicycle, the Japanese put them to very good use, as didi the North Vietnamese 20+ years later.
Morning Darksheare.
Morning PsyOp.
Boy ain't that one the truth!
LOL! I remember reading Sad Sack comics as a kid. Thanks for the memories.
Morning.
Nothing on the news my way by way of updates about that darn mountain.
Hiya Sam.
I read Burt Rutan's explanation of the rolling during the X1 flight. The pilot corrected for it, but the craft was so high, above 200,000 ft, that the control effectiveness was very low.
I thought you might.
Howdy ma'am
That's how I nabbed it!
I thought those would be good for a treadhead chuckle. I especially like the "arithmatic" one.
Yes it is! Unfortunately, there are so many space pic's to keep, I don't have the room.
LOL!
True.
(Maybe this will spur Nasa on to design better, more value for the money spent platforms? Hopefully. It'd be nice for them to have some friendly competition.)
Thanks..did not know that.
Guess this mirrors the foolish Spanish during their Armada period thingy...
all kinds of different scale cannon...no conformity of shot.
result...barrels plugged when fired...cannon carriages recoiled back after tearing mounts and broke cannon crews legs and arms....crushing them.
add the wood splinters fling around and concusion gradient.
Spanish probably killed 30% + of their own crews this way.
Guess they were not as organized as the English who placed pails of sand to put down on the decks.
Blood ran everywhere on Spanish ships decks..it must have been gruesome and demoralizing.
on a side note..and from my many years studying military history..it does seem that the demoralization factor is the unseen working taking the enemy down.
Ancient Kings would often crush the outlying cities and towns...letting the broken soldiers retreat to a last stand in a city.
laying seige to the city next..letting demoralization and chaos do its work.
very few situations overcame this reality...ie..unless some attacking army was severly extended themselves and unable to feed their troops.
Logistics and planning is the key to victory.
Sun Tsu: "Battles are won in the Temple...long before Generals take to the field"
Japan is a wonderous proof that Democracy is a feasible legal/socio foundation to enable a peoples to recover from detrimental leadership and be about life.
Iguess the debate in our time is if Islam can recover from that moronic book they fawn over.
They have to break with it...holding onto its tenants will only see them languish in confusion and socio detriment.
I have a bad feeling that we do not have the resolve to lay it down on them like the Japanese where confronted.
The Japanese..a proud and disciplined people saw the error of their ways..and engineered their new future.
Islam is still locked in its extortion,demand,tantraum thingy..the same axium they used to extort Papal Rome.
Corrupt Islam..and corrupt U.N.
Solomon:...."There is nothing knew under the Sun"
I have had that exact feeling in EOD, both in Korea and Vietnam.
During the Battle of Trafalgar, the HMS Victory was able to stern rake a large French ship from less than 100 yards. This means as the HMS Victory passed behind the French ship, each gun would fire as it bared straight down the deck. The French crew was lined up on their guns giving the cannon balls an opportunity to go the entire length of the French ship. Think of it as a T with the Victory being the top of the T passing accross the stalk of the T. The Victory was a 130 gun ship with the largest being 36 pounders. If you have ever seen the Constitution, it only has 24 pounders on the main deck. Also the Victory had in addition to the other guns, two 68 pound short barreled cannonades that fired canister.
To make a long story short, everyone on the gun deck of the French ship was killed or wounded. The French lost over 300 men in that one broad side. The sculpers, which were holes to allow water to wash off the deck, actually bled because there was so much blood on the deck, it ran down the sculpers. It was a bad day for the French.
Expect to see me more often in the future. DSL in and working (finally) so your threads actually LOAD UP (without me having to wait for up to 30 minutes) ..... :)
Keep up the GREAT work on these.
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Yeah. You've upgraded to DSL. It will be hard to pull you away from the computer now.
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