Japanese Tank Type 89 at Tuchiura base 2008/89式戦車土浦武器学校祭-1

[Nikitos253]

some how remainds me soviet t 28 but still amazed to see japanese tank that acutaly works

[WorstCommenter2008]

Interesting on how only the Japanese seem to care about restoring awsome tanks and keeping them in great shape... We should take all the remaining WW2 tanks and give them to the japanese õ_õ

[MrSpy3000]

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[takashi806]

Das war schrecklich

[oddballsok]

And to emphasize: I refer to the situations were troops fled their positions AT THE SOUND/sight of a tank.So not being crushed or obliterated by tank assault!!

That happened at the start phase of 1940 Sedan attacks (and boy do the Anglophiles mock the French over that , even today), yet the brits and the yanks did not fare much better in malaya and corregidorin 41 and 42 (hello! more than a year later with even less impressive jap tanks!!).

Go figure.

The victors write the history books.

[askjiir]

Cool.

[mtw56or]

man shes a beast

[binaway]

The Japanese army had great success against the Chinese with a range of very small tanks during the 1930's and got the false impression that is all they would need. The Chinese lacked anti tank guns, any tanks of their own and had virtually no ground attack aircraft. Although the Japanese did develop an aluminum block, air cooled diesel engine for for their later tanks which worked very well even if the tanks that used it weren't the best

[oddballsok]

crappy as it is, I still don't understand how it was able to push thru Malaya 42 and Philipp 41/42 if it was as crappy by those 42 standards??!?

Oh yes, some Australian/british 2 pdr guns (or 25pdr by that time?) did get to knock a few (!) out in an ambush, yet the Jap army pushed on..surely , by that time they must have known about the infamous molotov cocktail (origin Finland 39!!)..or can we thus assume the brits and yanks were just as scared of the sound of a tank as the french in 40?!

[DJonX7]

@oddballsok if all you had is a rifle, what would you do against it? tell it it sucked?

[oddballsok]

@DJonX7

My text actually concurs with your thought(s)..

a) Being a "crappy" tank (acc, to comments) it DID function well.

b) and yes, despite 2 pdr antitank guns & antitankrifles & the knowledge of petrolbombs (TWO years of use) ..the japs still raced through outnumbering allied defenses in malaya and philippines..hence >>>> these brits and yank WERE shitting their pants just as the french in Sedan "at the sound of the rattling of a tank" (see Corregidor=fortress & jap tanks ).

[DJonX7]

@oddballsok oh and this tank was made 12 years before the japanese fought any allies. go figure.

[PoetsLight]

These tanks were flimsy sheet metal.

[guamsst]

Japanese tanks were not designed to kill tanks. They were for infantry support and in much of the Pacific theatre they were effective enough. When faced with a Sherman or a good field piece they were nothing but flimsy targets. I love the American accounts of hitting them with HEAT rounds and having no effect as theround did not hit enough metal to activate. They had to switch to standard HE rounds to destroy them.

[AndrewPPalmer]

Sounds like my neighbor's Toyota.

[StarscreamLord]

It looks crappy. A redneck could build a better tank out of spare bulldozer parts.

[hyperidiot34]

@StarscreamLord dude its a world war one tank its supposed to look crappy have you seen the japanese type 10 or type 90 those arent crappy their modern tanks

[7sibley7]

@hyperidiot34

actually it is a world war 2 tank.

[MakeNine42]

the front looks like a shell magnet

[rwhendrix]

Ugly cool!

[dragonsfire2289]

a hand grenade could probably take it out from a close distance

[Grayfox988]

I bet if you stand close enough, you can pierce the side armor with a bolt-action rifle.

[SirEattonHogg]

Cool clip. Japanese armor was pretty weird when you consider that the Japanese had possibly the best fighter planes and Navy at the beginning of the WWII, along with some of the toughest infantrymen, but had such crappy tanks.  These tanks don't look much more advanced than WWI tanks. Maybe they didn't care because they knew that tanks didn't mean much in the jungle or against the Chinese who had few, if any tanks to field against them.

[hatemf23]

@SirEattonHogg I guess they look like ww1 tanks because they started developing them late, but japanese realised the need for good tanks, near the end of the war tanks with big 75 mm guns were made, and wouldve probably improved if the war went on.

[hatemf23]

@SirEattonHogg google type 4 and type 5 tanks which was actually intended to be heavier than the sherman.

[Whatever38458]

@hatemf23 by then the British Centurion and Black Prince were ready

[hatemf23]

@Whatever38458 I didnt say they would catch up to the westerners, just that they did realize its importance and were improving, but behind the rest of the world.

its like a race

[Whatever38458]

@SirEattonHogg China only had one tank formation which was the Chinese 5th Army which used Soviet T-26 tanks. However when this unit saw action in winter 1939-40 against the élite Japanese 5th Div (later instrumental in the Malay campaign and widely considered the best infantry division in Asia), they won a spectacular victory wiping the 5th Div's best two Regiments the (21st and 42nd, comprising the 21st Brigade).

[Whatever38458]

@SirEattonHogg Goes to show even the Chinese who had hardly any tanks knew more about armored warfare than the Japanese

[NoShame86]

jap tank are worthless shit, i think a m3 half track with AT gun installed would be enough to destroy this piece of shit several times over

[Whatever38458]

@NoShame86 agree totally. In fact thats what the Marines did in the Pacific.

[majmambo]

Whoa great video!

[infectedmordn]

niice to see other kinds of wwII armor than American/brittish/russian and german :)

[wakusabeh]

that tank cant kill even cockroaches..that tank is the most weakiest tank that ever build..

[britishcalifornia]

Awesome resto job, thx for uploading it!

[Zeanu]

Haha, it's so tiny.

[ktc8308]

Any new restoration project, Type 89?

[fgah]

This tank is crudely made even at pe-wwII standard.

[Zeanu]

For sure, Japanese tanks were no match for the Shermans.

[mackoyv]

fantastic!!!... i hope that there are more restorations...

[bombkiller007]

Great renovation! Thanks for sharing!!