List of Japanese armoured fighting vehicles of World War II
Depot for IJA 4th Tank Division with Type 1 Chi-He and Type 3 Chi-Nu tanks, 1945
Japanese tanks and armoured vehicles
This is a list of the Japanese armoured fighting vehicles of World War II. This list includes vehicles that never left the drawing board; prototype models and production models from after World War I, into the interwar period and through the end of the Second World War.
Tankettes
Type 97 Te-Ke tankette in China
- Type 92 Jyu-Sokosha
- Type 94 tankette Tankette
- Type 97 Te-Ke Tankette
Light tanks
- Type 95 Ha-Go Light tank
- Type 98 Ke-Ni Light tank
- Type 2 Ke-To Light tank
- Type 4 Ke-Nu Light tank
Medium tanks
Photo of Type 1 Chi-He on left and Type 97 Shinhoto Chi-Ha on right
- Type 89 Chi-Ro (I-Go) Medium Tank
- Type 97 Chi-Ha Medium Tank
- Type 97 Shinhoto Chi-Ha improved Medium Tank
- Type 97 Command Tank Shi-Ki
- Type 1 Chi-He Medium Tank
- Type 3 Chi-Nu Medium Tank
- Type 4 Chi-To Medium Tank
- Type 5 Chi-Ri Medium Tank
Heavy tanks
- Type 95 Heavy Tank
- Super-Heavy tank O-I
Type 2 Ka-Mi tanks on an IJN 2nd class transporter
Amphibious tanks
- SR I-Go Amphibious Tank (prototype)
- SR II Ro-Go Amphibious Tank (prototype)
- SR III Ha-Go Amphibious Tank (prototype)
- Type 1 Mi-Sha Amphibious Tank (prototype)
- Type 2 Ka-Mi Amphibious Tank
- Type 3 Ka-Chi Amphibious Tank
- Type 5 To-Ku Amphibious Tank
Self-propelled guns
Type 1 Ho-Ni II
- Type 1 Ho-Ni I 75 mm Tank Destroyer
- Type 1 Ho-Ni II 105 mm SPH
- Type 2 Ho-I Gun Tank
- Type 3 Ho-Ni III Gun Tank
- Type 4 Ho-Ro 150 mm SPH
- Type 4 Ha-To 30 cm SP Heavy Mortar Carrier
- Type 97 Shinhoto Chi-Ha Short Barrel 120 mm Gun Tank
- Type 5 Na-To 75 mm SP Tank Destroyer
- Type 5 Mortar Launcher Tok
Experimental tanks & self-propelled guns
Experimental IJN Long Barrel 120 mm SPG being demonstrated to US Army personnel, post-surrender
- Experimental Tank Number 1 - Type 87 Chi-I
- Experimental Type 91 Heavy Tank
- Experimental Medium Tank Chi-Ni
- Experimental Medium Tank Type 98 Chi-Ho
- Experimental Ji-Ro (a/k/a Ji-Ro Sha) 10 cm SPG
- Experimental Hi-Ro Sha (a/k/a Hiro-sha) 10 cm SPG
- Experimental Type 98 Ta-Se 20 mm Anti-Aircraft Tank
- Experimental Type 98 20 mm AAG Tank twin Type II 20 mm guns
- Experimental Light Tank Type 3 Ke-Ri
- Experimental Flying Tank Ku-Ro
- Experimental Type 2 Ku-Se 75 mm SPG
- Experimental Type 4 Ho-To 120 mm Self Propelled Howitzer
- Experimental Light Tank Type 5 Ke-Ho
- Experimental Type 5 Ho-Ru 47 mm SP Gun (similar to the German Hetzer)
- Experimental Type 5 155 mm Ho-Chi SP Gun
- Experimental Long Barrel 120 mm SPG
- Experimental Type 5 Ka-To 105 mm Tank Destroyer
- Type 5 Ho-Ri 105 mm SP Gun Tank (similar to the German Ferdinand/Elefant)
- Type 5 Ho-Ri II 105 mm SP Gun Tank (similar to the German Jagdtiger)
Armored vehicles
Side view of Type 1 Ho-Ha armoured half-track
- Sumida Amphibious Armored Car (Experimental)
- Type 95 So-Ki Armored Railroad Car
- Sumida M.2593 (variants: Type 91 So-Mo Armored Railroad Car & Sumida Model P Armored Car)
- Type 2592 Chiyoda armored car
- Type 93 Armoured Car a/k/a Type 2593 Hokoku, Type 93 Kokusanor or "Type 92" naval armored car
- Type 98 So-Da Armored Ammunition Carrier
- Type 100 Te-Re Observation Vehicle
- Type 1 Ho-Ki Armored Personnel Carrier
- Type 1 Ho-Ha Half-Track Armoured Personnel Carrier
- Type 4 Chi-So Armored Tracked Carrier
- Type 4 Ka-Tsu Amphibious Armoured Launch/Personnel Carrier
- Type 4 Ka-Sha Amphibious Tank (design only)
Other vehicles
SS-Ki of the 5th Independent Engineer Regiment using its crane
- Armored Engineer Vehicle SS-Ki
- Armored Lumberjack Ho-K
- Lumber Sweeper Basso-Ki
- Armored Recovery Vehicle Se-Ri
- S B tracked swamp vehicle (prototype)
- F B tracked swamp vehicle
- T B tracked swamp scout vehicle
- Type 94 Disinfecting Vehicle and Type 94 Gas Scattering Vehicle
- Type 97 "Pole Planter" and Type 97 "Cable Layer"
- Type 95 Crane Vehicle Ri-Ki
- Type 97 Disinfecting Vehicle and Type 97 Gas Scattering Vehicle
- Type 97 Mini Engineer Vehicle Yi-Go a/k/a Type 98 Ya-I Go
- Type T-G "bridge layer"
Imported tanks and armored vehicles (including captured types)
A IJN Vickers Crossley armored car in Shanghai
- Austin Armoured Car
- Vickers Crossley Armoured Car
- Wolseley Armoured Car
- British Light Tank Mk IV
- British Medium Whippet Mk A
- Renault FT "Ko-Gata Sensha" Light Tank
- Renault NC27 "Otsu-Gata Sensha" Light Tank
- Carden-Loyd Mk.VI
- Captured Stuart M3 Light Tank
- British Universal Carrier
- American M3 Half-track
- Dutch Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car
- Vickers 6-Ton
- Austin-Putilov
See also
References
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- Tomczyk, Andrzej (2002). Japanese Armor Vol. 1. AJ Press. ISBN 83-7237-097-4.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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