The Type 91 was completed in 1932, and as a result was sometimes known as the Type 92. The Type 91 had either seventeen or eighteen road wheels on each side, carried in pairs and supported by a two-stage leaf spring suspension system. The rear turret was located behind the engine compartment. The main turret carried one 70mm L/18.2 cannon and a 6.5mm machine gun, while two more machine guns were carried in front and rear turrets, giving the Type 91 a total of three machine guns. It carried its guns in three independent turrets, all on the centre line. The Type 91 Heavy Tank was developed from the Tank Number 1 of 1927 (Dai-chi Osaka Sensha, First Osaka Tank). The Type 91 Heavy Tank was one of a series of experimental multi-turreted heavy tanks designed in Japan between 1925 and the end of the 1930s, none of which entered production. More on the Type 91 Experimental Heavy Tank So in this order, all single prototypes (these could be heavy Japanese reserve level or the starter tier 1 tanks): The Type 91 was a multi-turret (as the O-I is speculated, which had me wondering if at some point one of the multi-turret experimental tanks was pulled from mothballs and showed up in Asia somewhere as a propaganda / disinformation campaign for a "super heavy tank") prototype that followed the Experimental tank No.1, 1927, that eventually led to the Type 95 ĭo you have more about the Type 91? It looks interesting! Ground Power is another good Japanese mag. He gets some cool old original photos from soldier's albums in Japan (estate sale type stuff). It has 140 types of Japanese armored vehicles including swamp tanks, artillery observation platforms, and early tanks. for what good it'll do ya! :) I picked it up in Akihabara. Per Zaloga the "best amphibious tank of the war" (Zaloga, Japanese Tanks 1939-1944) A rarer one is the shot of a Ka-Mi converted into an anti-air platform. Most shots show it landing or on land without pontoons. That's a relatively common shot of a Ka-Mi tank.
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