Chi-Ha (Family)

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Description

Type 97 Chi-Ha with IJA officer

Vehicles

Rank I Vehicle

• Chi-Ha
• Chi-Ha (China)
• Chi-Ha Kai
• Chi-Ha Kai (China)

Rank II Vehicle

• Chi-Ha Short Gun

History

Design

The Type 97 Chi-Ha was a medium tank constructed with rivets in the armour plates. It had a crew of four with a two-men turret. The turret held the same low-velocity 57 mm gun from the Type 89. Armour was relatively thin, but quite standard at the time of 1930s, but this would become very vulnerable past 1941 when the Japanese war expands to the world.

Development

Type 97 Chi-Ha

Type 97 Chi-Ha Medium Tank

Unarmed ShinHoTo turret on Type 97 Hull

Type 97 Chi-Ha Kai

Type 1 Chi-He on left and Type 97 ShinHoTo Chi-Ha on right

Further Development

The Type 97 Chi-Ha, like the standard tanks of other countries, was used in a multitude of roles by adapting its chassis to another purpose such as the Ho-Ni assault gun series. The Type 97 Chi-Ha design was also improved upon multiple times with better armour and better guns.

Combat History

1st IJA Tank Division, night practice shooting

World War II

M4A3 tank hull side armour after 47 mm penetrations

Variants (In-Game)

Medium Tanks

• Type 97 Chi-Ha
• Type 97 Chi-Ha Kai
• Type 1 Chi-He (Successor)

Gun Tank

• Type 97 Chi-Ha Short Gun

SPG's

• Type 1 Ho-Ni I
• Type 3 Ho-Ni III
• Type 4 Ho-Ro

Media

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  Type 97 Chi-ha medium tank of IJA 11th Tank Regiment, presumably during a manuever exercise on Shumshu Island, circa 1945.

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  Japanese troops supported by armor during the battle of Bukit Timah, Battle of Singapore, 1942.

• Chi-Ha Kai Destroyed.jpg

  Battle for Iwo Jima, February-March 1945.