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Typhonis
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Stingray Light Tank | MilitaryToday.com
The Stingray lignt tank was developed by Cadillac Gage as a private venture. It entered service with the Royal Thai army in 1988. Thailand purchased a total of 106 Stingray light tanks.
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Tiamat
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Stingray Light Tank | MilitaryToday.com
The Stingray lignt tank was developed by Cadillac Gage as a private venture. It entered service with the Royal Thai army in 1988. Thailand purchased a total of 106 Stingray light tanks.www.militarytoday.com
(M1 Abrams looks at Stingray)
"I shall call him...Mini-Me."
DarthOne
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*Uses David Attenburgh voice* "And here we see the mother tank carrying her offspring upon her back as she searches the jungle for a pond full of guzzleline."
90% sure that’s ww2, the pacific theater and the destroyed tank on top is Japanese.
Gonna try and identify it.
DarthOne
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Lord Sovereign
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As much as Japanese tanks get dunked on, they were surprisingly decent vehicles for their roles on the battlefield as I understand it. Not a main battle tank, but a lighter war machine designed to trundle through the jungles of Japan’s Empire, and the small bridges and roads of it Home Islands.
Yeah, they were great for the terrain they were meant to traverse, but once they came up against actual combat tanks like the basic Sherman, they were pretty much coffins.
IIRC, their underpowered (in comparison) gun could only penetrate the Sherman's armour at pretty much point blank and suicidal range, hence why the Japanese liked ambushes and entrenchment along low walls and the like.
They were interested in Germany's tanks, especially the Tigers, but they deemed it unfeasible due to logistical issues (such as shipping tanks via submarine), cost, and how cumbersome they were in the Pacific Theater.
Lord Sovereign
The resident Britbong
To my mind these were excellent IFVs in Asian or Jungle terrain, but Japan had no familiarity with proper combat tanks (something they have rectified in the years following the Second World War). I don’t know of any attempts at building their answer to the Sherman but I reckon the Japanese ought to have at least tried.
And it was a good call with the Tigers. Getting them over would be enough of a nightmare, but they were problem children enough in much less difficult environments than the Pacific theatre.
Imagine the transmission breaking in the arse end of Burma. Good luck fixing that.
DarthOne
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That’s part of it.
As I also understand it, they didn’t up date with new tank designs thanks the Imperial Japanese Army’s completion with their rivals/ mortal enemies, the Imperial Navy, over supplies of steel.
Buba
A total creep
There was the Type 4 Chi-To Tanks that would've had 75mm Cannons and were designed to confront the Shermans. Supposedly only two were built but that was clearly a lie because you see far more of them engage Godzilla when he attacks Ginja in Godzilla Minus One.
I'm sure that the 75mm will finish it off! Banzai!!!!
That's pretty much what Japanese tanks were; IIRC they didn't keep up with tank development before and during the War, unlike the Allies, Germany, the Soviet Union, and their doctrine basically became adapted to using their underpowered tanks as infantry support, e.g. IFVs. When they realized that "oh shit, our tanks are scrap metal against actual Gaijin combat tanks", it was far too late in the War.
Trying to get German Panzers was pretty much a desperation venture which was quickly ruled out.
Hell, even Italy had better tank development pre and during the War. Italy.
Agent23
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Well, now we know what the fight with the Mauss in GuP was inspired by.
*Uses David Attenburgh voice* "And here we see the mother tank carrying her offspring upon her back as she searches the jungle for a pond full of guzzleline."