We all know Japan produces armored vehicles in laughably small quantities but how good are the Type 10 MBT and Mitsubishi Type 89 IFV in terms of quality?
Type 10 and Type 89
We all know Japan produces armored vehicles in laughably small quantities but how good are the Type 10 MBT and Mitsubishi Type 89 IFV in terms of quality?
Not NATO compliant
Type 10 can use NATO standard rounds
moron
I don't know how good they are, but they're very small and cute.
they build their tanks like they build their cars and women
The type 10 is extremely good from the specs and is made so it's usable in Japan's narrow roads. 360 visual coverage for the commander, AI supported hunter killer, hydraulics for shooting from heights, improved shorter 120 mm gun with an auto loader and the fricking thing can zoom around at the same speed, front and revers.
Shame, as it's probably never going to be exported anywhere where it would see combat. It would probably be the perfect tank for all of China's neighbours that actually don't want to deal with Chinkshit/Russian trash and don't have their own production of kit, but as per usual for all things Japanese, the costs is eyewatering ($11.3 million per unit).
It's hyper specific to Japan. The only one with a mission set comparable may be the Koreans but they have their own thing and that isn't even a a 1 to 1.
Chinese and Russian tanks are larger, more firepower and significantly better protection would walk through the Jap tanks
You mean the first would collapse a bridge and fall into a river and the others would sit there with nowhere to go while the Type-10 blasts them from a mountain ridge firing from a 45% grade cliff.
It's a tank for a purpose. Same as the Merkava (no other tank is Better for Israel's use case and it's arguably the best urban assault tank).
The kanto region is all flat plains
>The kanto region is all flat plains
perfect for being sniped by tanks, TD's and ATGMs
>The kanto region is all flat plains
More like Urban sprawl
It can be flattened to plains again
It's not the 1940s. Tokyo is not built of wood anymore. You can pulverize it, sure, but you can't flatten it. And certainly not with a couple of firebombing raids.
Honestly neither Russia nor China has enough munitions to "flatten" a megacity the size of Tokyo. They could nuke it, but at that point all bets are off anyway
i don't think the japs are planning for fighting there
But they'd have to land in Japan and operate on Japanese rural mountain roads, moron.
Based on their track record of being unable to kill giant lizard monsters that destroy Tokyo every other week, I'd say they are crap.
>We all know Japan produces armored vehicles in laughably small quantities
this is a symptom of their intentionally drawn out production schedule. They do this so as to make sure that technical skills and manufacturing capability last for the lifetime of a vehicles, making the development and production of a new one much easier
No idea what the purpose or intent behind the Type 10 is. It's so thinly armoured, doesn't have APS, this thing has zero battlefield survivabilitry.
Is it for policing operations? Fighting Godzilla?
IIRC one of the design criteria for the Type 10 was a smaller size for the sake of rail transport, presumably at a cost of protection
It probably doesn't help that Japan uses a railway gauge narrower than standard, either
>It's so thinly armoured
it has modular armor for transport
>doesn't have APS
true. didn't fit the mission profile at the time they were developing the tank though. Don't forget that large parts of their doctrine involves mountain fighting. They're can get good hull-down angles thank to the hydro-pneumatic active suspension.
and to add to
, making it lighter means it can cross 85% of Japans bridges compared to the Type 90's 60% (average western MBTs would manage 40%), having your tank actually getting into useful positions was deemed to be more important which is why only the front of the turret is properly protected against 120 fire, anything else would come from the add-on protection kits
Vroom
It's the only tank that actually meets all the requirements for the new tank the brazilian army is looking to buy.
Shame we will never get them, I think they look so good.
the tonk's neat but the ifv is an incredibly vanilla 80s relic that has seen very little upgrades and paper armor
It was an Bradley contemporary when it was introduced and it's subsequen upgrades have also made it a contemporary to upgraded Bradleys.