The Type 10 tank is armed with a 120 mm smoothbore gun, developed by Japan Steel Works. This company also license-produces the Rheinmetall 120 mm/L44 gun for the Type 90 MBT. Autoloader is located in ...

Original Japanese army requirement was for 600 of these tanks, however only about 340 were built due to high unit price. This tank was never exported, as at the time Japan laws did not allow export of ...

As a nation that produced exceptionally poor tanks during World War II, Japan during the postwar period had quite a reputation to overcome. Wartime tanks such as the Type 97 “Chi-Ha” were a decade or ...

ENIWA, Japan — The dozens of Type 90, or “Kyumaru,” tanks rumbling through recent shooting drills on Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido exemplify the challenge its arms makers face both at home and ...