I don’t think it can be said for certain. I do know that no production schedule for any kind of Chi-Ri is known to have been drafted after the main project was suspended in about March 1945.
Chi-Ri II’s design date may have been very late, or perhaps as early as 1944. It would either be another abandoned project or simply too late to even be prototyped. It seems redundant as basically just a marginally larger and heavier Chi-To, although with the supercharged AL as mentioned.
I consider that it could have been planned earlier because a document from late 1944 calls the in-construction Chi-Ri “Chi-Ri I”.
Sounds like a bug report to me; I submitted one for the Ke-Ni to be renamed as “Type 98 Ke-Ni A Prototype”. If you don’t want to do it yourself, you could give me the materials and I can do it.
Okay that could actually be a really net vehicle to add and would add some variety as an actually useful pure ATGM vehicle. Someone wanna make a suggestion for it?
That is because the location of the driver’s periscopes located differently between the two tanks.
The TK-X periscopes located further out while the Type 10 periscopes are placed further in close to its turret ring. So yeah, the driver sits in the exact same location.
Are there text mentions about the inner wall between the front (driver’s area and 47mm turrets) and the center (below 150mm turret)? In these drawings there are even hatches. In game this wall could save the vehicle from large caliber rounds, which would otherwise overpressure the whole vehicle. I couldn’t find a mention about this wall in the O-I thread and now it’s closed.
There is a Gaijin account from China that states that it will not provide VT4 to Japan, and the hatred of the Chinese people towards Japan may lead to official intervention if this kind of thing happens
those guys need psychological help quite frankly, but also there is the issue why Thailand should go to china and not japan, Thailand is much more close to japan than to China, so i dont see anything wrong here tbh
Also I don’t know if anyone noticed, but the launcher is literally held down with straps. Obviously the Type 96 is primarily an APC, but the mounting is way more rudimentary than similar vehicles in the game like the M113 TOW
They can still add Thailand to Japan, just not with the VT-4. Have the Oplot as the top rank vehicle for them instead, which is still unique and it’d be a good way to add it to the game, since adding it to the Russian tree would obviously be a no-no.
I do think it’s kinda funny though, considering how barebones the Chinese tree would be without foreign vehicles. Guess they don’t want that M1A2 that they could be in line to receive.
