Ro-Go

Ro-Go

Ro-Go

Japan

I Rank

Battle rating:

AB	RB	SB
1.3	1.3	1.3

Class:

PREMIUM

Heavy tank

Purchase:1 370

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Description

The Type 95 Ro-Go is a premium rank I Japanese heavy tank with a battle rating of 1.3 (AB/RB/SB). It was introduced in Update 1.67 "Assault".

General info

Survivability and armour

The Ro-go is an excellently protected vehicle for 1.3. Featuring armour thick enough to stop 12.7 mm machine-gun fire from all angles (except the roof), and even anti-tank guns if angled properly. The placement of modules deep down inside the hull, where most 1.3 players would never think of shooting, makes the chance that the ammo, engine, transmission and fuel tanks get hit rather low. Even the crew inside the tank are pretty well protected by the tank's armour, and if everything fails you still have the lone machine gunner in the back turret, which means that a lot of the time you will be able to make a partial recovery from getting shredded to pieces by the waves of Pz.IIs and M2A4s.

Armour type:

• Rolled homogeneous armour

Armour	Front (Slope angle)	Sides	Rear	Roof
Hull	35 mm Front plates 25 mm (61°) Front glacis 25 mm (68°) Lower glacis	30 mm (0-56°) Top 30 + 6 mm Bottom	13 mm Top 25 mm (0-32°) Bottom	13 mm
Main Turret	30 mm (8-78°) Turret front 30 mm Gun mantlet	25 mm (8-10°) 15 mm (2-34°)	25 mm (8°) Machine gun port	8 mm
Secondary Turret #1	30 mm (0-1°) Turret front 30 mm Gun mantlet	25 mm	25 mm	8 mm
Secondary Turret #2	14-15 mm (0-3°)	25 mm	25 mm	13 mm
Armour	Sides	Roof
Cupola	25 mm	8-13 mm

Notes:

• Suspension wheels and tracks are 15 mm thick. Suspension bogies are 10 mm thick.

Mobility

Game Mode	Max Speed (km/h)		Weight (tons)	Engine power (horsepower)		Power-to-weight ratio (hp/ton)
	Forward	Reverse		Stock	Upgraded	Stock	Upgraded
Arcade	25	7	25.5	374	553	14.67	21.69
Realistic	23	7		256	290	10.04	11.37

Armaments

Main armament

70 mm Type 94
Capacity			Vertical guidance	Horizontal guidance	Stabilizer
100			-10°/+22°	±180°	N/A
Turret rotation speed (°/s)
Mode	Stock	Upgraded	Prior + Full crew	Prior + Expert qualif.	Prior + Ace qualif.
Arcade	7.44	10.30	__.__	__.__	14.72
Realistic	5.47	6.44	__.__	__.__	9.20
Reloading rate (seconds)
Stock	Prior + Full crew	Prior + Expert qualif.	Prior + Ace qualif.
5.20	__.__	__.__	4.00

Ammunition

Penetration statistics
Ammunition	Type of warhead	Penetration in mm @ 0° Angle of Attack
		10m	100m	500m	1000m	1500m	2000m
Type 95 APHE	APHE	21	20	18	16	14	13
Type 92 HE	HE	9	9	9	9	9	9
Type 3 HEAT	HEAT	80	80	80	80	80	80

Shell details
Ammunition	Type of warhead	Velocity in m/s	Projectile Mass in kg	Fuse delay in m:	Fuse sensitivity in mm:	Explosive Mass in g (TNT equivalent):	Normalization At 30° from horizontal:	Ricochet:
								0%	50%	100%
Type 95 APHE	APHE	300	4.45	1.2	14	170	-1°	47°	60°	65°
Type 92 HE	HE	348	3.81	2.0	0.1	590	+0°	79°	80°	81°
Type 3 HEAT	HEAT	200	3.35	0.0	0.1	601.6	+0°	62°	69°	73°

Ammo racks

Full ammo	1st rack empty	2nd rack empty	3rd rack empty	Visual discrepancy
100	98 (+2)	95 (+5)	1 (+99)	No

Turret empty: 95 (+5)

Additional armament

37 mm Type 94
Secondary turret mount
Capacity			Vertical guidance	Horizontal guidance	Stabilizer
50			-8°/+20°	±110°	N/A
Reloading rate (seconds)
Stock	Prior + Full crew	Prior + Expert Qualif.	Prior + Ace Qualif.
4.3	__.__	__.__	__.__

Ammunition

Penetration statistics
Ammunition	Type of warhead	Penetration in mm @ 90°
		10m	100m	500m	1000m	1500m	2000m
Type 94 APHE	APHE	34	33	27	22	17	14

Shell details
Ammunition	Type of warhead	Velocity in m/s	Projectile Mass in kg	Fuse delay in m:	Fuse sensitivity in mm:	Explosive Mass in g (TNT equivalent):	Normalization At 30° from horizontal:	Ricochet:
								0%	50%	100%
Type 94 APHE	APHE	575	0.7	1.2	9	9.4	-1°	47°	60°	65°

Ammo racks

Ammo racks of the Ro-Go.

Full ammo	1st rack empty	2nd rack empty	3rd rack empty	4th rack empty	5th rack empty	Visual discrepancy
150	146 (+4)	141 (+9)	91 (+59)	46 (+104)	1 (+149)	No

Turret empty: 141 (+9)

Machine guns

7.7 mm Type 97
Rear turret mount
Capacity (Belt capacity)				Fire rate (shots/minute)	Vertical guidance	Horizontal guidance
1,950 (20)				499	-8°/+20°	±110°

Usage in battles

The Ro-go, like most landships, is the perfect vehicle to lead an assault. The Ro-go's relatively thick armour and impressive firepower mean that the Ro-go can deal a lot of punishment to the enemy. As well, if being the spearhead of an assault isn't your style, you can always use that sweet 200 m/s to annoy enemies who think that they are safe behind buildings, walls, rocks and even hills.

Pros and cons

Pros:

• Main gun with 70 mm HEAT and the secondary with 37 mm APHE are a deadly combination
• 70 mm's HEAT velocity of 200 m/s (one of the slowest in the game) means that it can shoot enemies behind cover
• Great gun depression and good elevation
• Six crew vehicle
• The secondary frontal turret can act as a shield to absorb some hits
• Has relatively thick armour enough to stop heavy machine gun fire, and even some anti-tank weapons
• Good maneuverability for a heavy tank
• 70 mm HEAT shells excel in both penetration and damage
• Modules are very well hidden in the vehicle

Cons:

• Slow turret traverse makes the Ro-Go easy to flank
• Features only a single machine gun in a rear turret
• Two massively different trajectories for the main guns
• Back turret ammo runs out very quickly
• Very slow
• Penetration with standard APHE for both guns is lacking
• Hard to aim with HEAT

History

After World War I, the Imperial Japanese Army experimented with some possibility of multi-turreted tanks design based French Renault FT light tank. The development of the Type 95 Ro-Go heavy tank is based on the older version of the tank, the Type 91 heavy tank, which featured only a single 57 mm gun and two turrets, which both armed with a 6.5 mm machine guns. The tank had a maximum armour plate thickness of 17 mm. Although the design was not successful and soon cancelled, this project became the stepping stone to the Type 95 Ro-Go tank.

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