Are there ANY MBTs Japan could get at 9.7? From any Asian nation. I feel like 9.7 could be a very good BR if Japan got an MBT there
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M60A3 TIFCS from Thailand… yeah that’s all I can think of. The Filipino Sabrah LT maybe, but thats not a MBT.
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9.7 ? uuh, only M60A3 TIFCS comes to my mind atm. Majority of other MBTs are either top tier or nowhere near 9.7.
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DO we have ANY ideas for what japan could get from these sub-tree nations that could fill the 10 to 11 gap?
Indonesian Leo 2A4 comes to mind.
Quite a lot actually
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Not particularly. There’s some light vehicles that could go in that gap, but there will always be a gap in mainline MBTs at that range.
Would the type 4 ha to work in wt?
There was a blueprint photo showing it can depress to the roof not sure if it’s still 50+ degrees. I tried to use a ballistic calculator to see the drop range of the shell and lowest depression, came out to 7 meters I probably missed up somewhere.
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Not really, there is an obvious lack of onboard ammo storage. Not to mention, the gun was muzzle loaded, and so it needed to be positioned at a vertical angle as seen in your image, whereas a small crane would hoist the shell into the barrel.
So even though it looks pretty cool, it’s ultimately just a fancy carrier for a heavy mortar. In this photo, you can even see how the length of the “barrel” is an illusion, as there is pretty much just a bunch of metal superstructure to help guide the shell in while loading.
As a side note, when I was younger and less knowledgeable, the RTS game Men Of War: Assault Squad 2 had me under belief that the Ha-To fired rocket-assisted shells, something that it unfortunately did not have in reality.
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I’m working on this camo right now. I still need to finish the small details. The hard part is that I’m doing it on a 2D camo template in GIMP, and I have to figure out where the tiny parts are located on the template that I have to paint. (small optics, tank hatch, smoke grenades etc.)
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Looks sick, kinda hope it’s the market skin for the Stingray!
Braver than me, I hate texturing
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The Stingray has a lot of flat surfaces and large textures, which makes it easier to paint than many tanks. Now imagine doing this on a Soviet tank with tons of separate textures and ERA blocks—that’s a nightmare to paint on a 2D template like this. I already gave up doing any Oplot camo.
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Wasn’t Chi Ha LG’s ammo crate just strapped on the back by devs, even though it was not there irl (afaik)?
Devs are magicians that invent quite a lot of stuff that shouldn’t be there (prime example: armament on aircraft), and I don’t think it will be a big of a deal to put 4-5 rounds (+1 in chamber) just to have at least something. Thanks to ammo crate, it ain’t as much of a problem as it would be before.
Spicy screenshots
Sorry for your loss. Trying to use GIMP was painful.
closed again, they are never fixing the type 10 armor are they? hope we can at least get either vt4 (tt), leopard 2a4ri or at least good ifvs with (not bushmaster) guns and atgms
Every single one of those vehicles is amazing would add so much to Japan
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The Ha-Go Bulldozer has finished restoration! Revealed on August 17th, it’s first formal appearance was a supporter-only event in Gotemba City on August 24th.
The following photos come from its first public appearance alongside the standard Ha-Go at an expo in Shizuoka that happened just yesterday. The contrast between the grass and the yellow-blue paint combo is pretty cool.
It’s not just a work vehicle, but a vivid reminder of the reconstruction efforts in postwar Japan.
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Speaking of pre-JGSDF tank usage in postwar Japan, I happen to have this photo, probably pretty rare considering what’s in it.
The caption, likely written by an American occupier, claims this to be a “reconverted tank”. In reality, this is a Type 98 Ro-Ke prime mover, quite the odd sight as late as April of 1947. It seems to be getting a tow from the truck here, but I wonder if it was the Japanese or Americans operating it?
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