Restored Ha-Go Part 3

[Kneb587]

I'm guessing that it's not supposed to smoke that much.

[TalonMercenary]

@Kneb587 It really did. The American nickname for it was "smoky" if i can remember from a book

[SpetSy]

look all that shit coming out of that shit

[askjiir]

So much smoke...

[icaruss88]

@askjiir

its to hide the tank from enemy artillery XD

[askjiir]

@icaruss88

LOL : D

[MiGFoxhound31]

Being born in 1993, this is a sight i thought i would never see, but have always wanted to see. A fully restored virtually mint condition Type 95 Ha-Go Japanses Light tank, a truely awesome tank thats 76 years old haha. If it were mine i would guard it like Fort Knox haha :DD

[Haffschlappe]

Newest Lexus Tank :)

[Fotistou94]

this tank was good in what it was designed to do, infanrty support, it wasn't designed as a tank destroyer etc..Plus in many battlefields heavier tanks would be stuck in mud and staff like that..Either way the Empire of Japan made excellent artillery and really good airforce-navy and they were also excellent when compined

[roudy1689]

here's an idea, i'm not going to refight ww2. nice machine thanks for posting (cough)

[DJonX7]

@roudy1689 u didnt fight ww2.

[cyphertek]

Small enough to store it in garage, but I don't think it will pass the emission test.

The japanese light tanks might have been useful as infantry support. The first tanks they encounter in the Pacific were not Sharmans. They faced Stuarts in the Philipines, Guadalcanal and New Guinea in 1942 before Sharmans.

[fatcat3211]

No wonder the Japanese lost.

[14DNS]

@fatcat3211 the japenes tabk are perfect for the jungle :D and not for other things :D

[rwhendrix]

Engine is in trouble. Thats probably why the guy is sitting on the back of it while trying to keep it going. The grey/white smoke is either a head gasket and or piston rings bad. The almost black smoke is too rich fuel, bad carburator float or choke.

[hatemf23]

gets out alot of smoke for a little tank

[silver760]

that engines wanked,so much for a resto on the engine!

[macnutz]

The Japanese tanks were small, low powered, poorly armored, with small guns. They were built to be infantry support tanks not battle tanks. The Chinese had little or no armor so the Sherman was the first tank the Japanese fought against. As other commentors have said, the Japanese tanks were to the Sherman what the Sherman was to the Tiger, burning scrap metal.

Most of the US tank loses at Tarrawa were due to artillery not Japanese tanks.

[NoShame86]

I think it's more like M3 Stuart to a Tiger

[macnutz]

Yeah, it's hard to say. To the Germans the Sherman was a Ronson. Easy to light, every time.

The only advantage the Sherman had was the numbers it was produced in.

[slitor]

Hell, i would have made the comparison M3 Stuart to the Tiger.

The Japaneese were doomed to loose, they didnt have a single effektive infantry AT weapons.

They did have the type 97 with the 47 mm gun, which could easily take out an M3 Stuart but had difficulties with the sherman

But AT capibilities wasnt a concern because they didnt excpect the american would land tanks that was bigger then the light-class.

[macnutz]

Yeah, the Japanese did have some good AT weapons but not on their tanks. Their tanks were glorified armoured cars with tracks.

[slitor]

Good AT weapons? what were those?

[macnutz]

None. I realized my mistake as soon as I posted that comment. There were a number of US tanks taken out by Japanese artillery but not specific AT weapons. In deed the Japanese never developed an effective anti-tank weapon.

[slitor]

The US should be glad that the German Japanese alliance wasn't much of an alliance at all.

Only until the very end did they pass on technology to the japs.

I mean, take the panzerfaust, the later version could be made out of a cardboard material and had a much improved range.

The ten men it took to take out one tank could be a one man to take out a tank.

[skeilak]

I may be wrong, but I believe the Japanese did field a high velocity 57mm AT Gun, derived from an anti-aircraft gun, (as were most successful AT Guns) which the Marines encountered during the last years of the war. In fact, I recall the Japs even prototyped a new "heavy" tank which mounted this weapon in early 1945. Too little, too late, of course, but they were aware of their shortcomings.

[macnutz]

You're right but as you say, too little, too late. The high velocity 57mm was still underpowered. They could have make use of some German 88s.

[Shchetchynianin]

@macnutz Japs have purchased 1-2 tigers AFAIK

[Bander1]

@macnutz

Actually not really, the Soviets in 1939 at Khalkin gol near Mongolia were the ones whom the Japanese fought a real open field tank to tank battle.

Soviet BT-5 and T-26s vs. Japanese Type 89s. Basically the USSR whipped Japan's ass(the Japanese were unlucky that Zhukov was the commander of the Soviet forces in this battle).

[macnutz]

@Bander1 In deed, I had left the Russians out of my thinking

[Shchetchynianin]

@Bander1 well actually Zhukov has came to 'command' when the battle was over. If he was the commander, there would have been such slaughter of Soviet forces, as it was at Battle for Berlin, when he sent tank divisions into urban warfare saying to his inferior commanders "Do not fear, not be cowards, we gonna tell about the fear only to our grandchildren"...

[vietpridewoldwide]

@macnutz This tank is small because it is a light tank. Check out the japanese heavy tank

[hardcorecrusher12]

i wanna one of this i wana shooth with it i wanne kiss it so fucking beoutuful tank!! wy the shoot never with those tanks??

[Lockbar]

The US code name for this jap tank was "smokey".

[type3899]

九五式軽戦車 ハ号 これからも大切にして頂きたいものであります。

[hi5719]

その通りですね。

[calimar28]

Did a Sherman ever take these on? Definate easy win for a Sherman, thats for sure. And I bet 20 of these at the same time could not take on a German Tiger tank...seriously. Anyway, much respect for this tank, thanks for posting.

[Elchupucabra]

Yes, these tanks saw action against the M4 Sherman medium tank. The results were the same as pitting the Sherman 1vs 1 against a Tiger or Panther.

[m1rock]

heh. Yep. The result was the Sherman punched though these tank like scrap paper.

[balongaboy]

hell yes the sherman usually pounded them to dust. ive actually see pictures of a sherman carrying a destryed smaller jap tank on its back

[castercamber]

Sherman tanks were knocked out by Japanese tanks on occasion. Tarawa, I believe, was one place. There was alot more to fear from Jap anti-tank guns, which were very effective, especially on Okinawa.

[6TheMaharlikA9]

Ha-Go muffler smoke of everyone!

[britishcalifornia]

Just imagine taking on a Sherman with this!!

[Elchupucabra]

I'd rather not think of taking on a Sherman in one of those , just as I wouldn't want ot be in a Sherman versus a Tiger. Ouch.

[takerikusentai]

煙がすごいな～

[sonodaotaku]

you guys are in Oregon right? It would be so awesome to see this in person.