Type 98 (20 mm)
| This page is about the Japanese cannon Type 98 (20 mm). For other uses, see Type 98 (Disambiguation). |
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Description
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Vehicles equipped with this weapon
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Naval vessels:
General info
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Available ammunition
- Default: API-T · HEFI-T · HEFI-T
- Type 100 AP-T: API-T
- Type 100 HE-T: HEFI-T
| Penetration statistics | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ammunition | Penetration @ 0° Angle of Attack (mm) | ||||||
| 10 m | 100 m | 500 m | 1,000 m | 1,500 m | 2,000 m | ||
| HEFI-T | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | |
| API-T | 48 | 45 | 35 | 26 | 19 | 14 | |
| Shell details | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ammunition | Velocity (m/s) |
Projectile mass (kg) |
Fuse delay (m) |
Fuse sensitivity (mm) |
Explosive mass (TNT equivalent) (g) |
Ricochet | ||||||
| 0% | 50% | 100% | ||||||||||
| HEFI-T | 950 | 0.13 | 0.04 | 0.1 | 6 | 79° | 80° | 81° | ||||
| API-T | 928 | 0.16 | - | - | - | 47° | 60° | 65° | ||||
Comparison with analogues
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Usage in battles
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Pros and cons
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History
While the Imperial Japanese military often looked to Great Britain and Germany for inspiration and licenses for weapons prior to World War I, the Treaty of Versailles forbidding the further existence of a domestic arms industry in Germany caused Japan to look to France instead for small arms and artillery. The 13.2mm Hotchkiss Mle. 1930 was built under license and adopted by the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1933 as the Type 93 in the anti-aircraft role and the Type Ho 13 mm by the Imperial Japanese Army. Further development of the Type 93 created the Type 98 20 mm AA machine gun, a scaled-up model that became the main anti-aircraft gun of the IJA during World War II. First seeing combat during the Soviet-Japanese border skirmishes in the late 1930s, the Type 98 was adopted in the year 2598 on the Japanese calendar (1938 using the Western Gregorian calendar).
The Type 98 made up about 80% of the IJA's anti-aircraft gun inventory and was the gun used for their self-propelled anti-aircraft designs such as the Isuzu Type 94 AA machine cannon carrier truck, the Type 98 AA half-track, and the Type 98 Ta-Se and So-Ki designs based on the Type 98 Ke-Ni light tank. The Imperial Japanese Army's coastal forces also used the Type 98 on their Motor Torpedo Boats.
Media
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See also
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External links
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| Japan naval cannons | |
|---|---|
| 20 mm | JM61 · Type 98 |
| 25 mm | 25 mm/60 Type 96 |
| 37 mm | Type 4 · Type 11 pattern 1922 |
| 40 mm | 40 mm/62 Vickers |
| 57 mm | Type 97 |
| 75 mm | Type 88 AA |
| 76 mm | 3-inch/40 Type 41 · 8 cm/40 3rd Year Type · 8 cm/60 Type 98 |
| 100 mm | 100/65 mm Type 98 mod A |
| 120 mm | 120 mm/45 3rd Year Type · 120 mm/45 10th year type |
| 127 mm | 5 inch/40 Type 89 · 127 mm/50 3rd Year Type |
| 140 mm | 140 mm/50 3rd Year Type |
| 152 mm | 6-inch/45 Type 41 · 15 cm/50 Type 41 |
| 155 mm | 155 mm/60 3rd Year Type |
| 200 mm | 20 cm 3rd year type No.1 |
| 203 mm | 20 cm/45 Type 41 · 20 cm/50 3rd year type No.2 |
| 356 mm | 36 cm/45 Type 41 |
| 410 mm | 410 mm/45 Type 3 |
| Foreign: | |
| 20 mm | 20 mm/70 Oerlikon Mk.II (USA/Britain) |
| 40 mm | Bofors L/60 Mark 1 (USA) · Bofors L/60 Mark 2 (USA) · Bofors L/60 Mark 3 (USA) |
| 47 mm | 3 pdr QF Hotchkiss (Britain) |
| 76 mm | 3-inch Mark 10 (USA) · 3 inch Mk.33 (USA) · 3-inch Mk.34 (USA) |
| 120 mm | 4,7-inch/40 Armstrong (Britain) |
| 127 mm | 5 inch/38 Mk.12 (USA) |
| 305 mm | 12-inch/45 Vickers (Britain) · 12-inch/50 Vickers (Britain) |
| Japan anti-aircraft guns | |
|---|---|
| 20 mm | Type 98 Anti-Air Gun |
| Foreign: | |
| 12.7 mm | M2HB (USA) |
| 20 mm | Rh202 (Germany) |
| 35 mm | Oerlikon KDA (Swiss) |
| 40 mm | M2 Dual Automatic Gun (USA) |
