Japanese Type 95 Light Tank Evaluation

Allied evaluation of Japanese Type 95 light tank. (Source: U.S. Combat Bulletin No. 5.)

[@TheKsalad]

"See this hole? Shoot it. See that grate? Shoot it. See that turret? Shove a rock in it."

[@emilianoestorga7227]

"HOLDS 3 MEN, JAPANESE SIZE" i lost it

[@amortael]

I cynically think how lucky were these guys who did nothing else but taking these movies, making the narration, testing and playing with the captured stuff back home...

[@paulkosoff8851]

I like the idea of comparing, which tank is better, by drag racing :D

[@VeryProPlayerYesSir1122]

That how murica test the tanks.

[@Mr.McWatson]

"Just shoot at it's idler wheels, boys, that *might* work if you get lucky!" " Yeah... so where can I sign up for the air force?"

[@marcoalexej7118]

The US amy, telling their soilders to run up to enemy tanks and shove their canteens into their turrets.

[@Slayer_Jesse]

not so unreasonable, considering that they would most likely encounter it close up in island jungles.

[@TheCountess666]

these tanks are actually very vulnerable without close in support from troops, primarily because visibility is so limited. modern tanks still have this issue even though today's camera systems make it a far smaller problem.

[@bluenova123]

The Countess The Japanese tank was particularity bad being very vulnerable to heavy machine gun fire, which what tanks were made originally to counter.

[@iansanderson6406]

***** the Japanese tanks worked well enough for then in China/Manchuria where having a fast infantry suppression tank was more viable. Different designs for different tasks. Plus the US and Europe had Industrial capacities that outmatched Japan in both quantity and quality so it's no wonder the Japanese tank wouldn't be "up to par"

[@vroomkaboom108]

The japanese in ww2 were the walking definition of worst army ever. Everything they produced was inferior and according to casualties, they most likely couldn't hit a stationary elephant if they wanted to. no battles won, no mass damage inflicted. The only thing worse i could think of were the people dominated by them. Actually,i take what i said eralier, THEY were the walking definition of worst army ever

[@asa1250Ring]

The Japanese Army designed tanks and developed doctrines from fighting the Chinese Army. The Chinese lacked armor, artillery and effective anti-tank weapons.

[@TannyWanny]

jungle tank

[@colddrake80]

Thanks for the upload. This kind of video is quit rare.

[@Armydicked]

22DEC1941, The Philipine Islands. America went TANK to TANK with this very Tank...and we lost. And we were defeated having the BETTER TANK. I'll get to that later. Lets see how TEAM AMERICA stacks up. America's Stewart M3A1 was a relatively new design, manufactured 1941-1944. It had a crew of 4 (CDR, Gunner, Driver, Mg Gunner), it was approximately 18 tonnes. POSITIVES Terrific Armour for a Light Tank and a Great Gun. America's Light Tank was equal in firepower to Rommel's Pzkpfw III G medium tank. The M3 had 38mm upper hull armour/44mm front bottom hull armour 51mm gun mantlet and 25mm side/rear armour. Our 37mm M5 L/56.6 shot out at 884 m/s and could penetrate 53mm @ 500m or 40mm @ 1Km. OUR speed was also good 36mph road/20mph off road. [NEGATIVES?] 75miles to the tank full---I mean GOD AWFUL. The British failed using them in Operation Crusader and the Russians refused to accept any more of them. Their tiny tracks (10" wide) mean they would get stuck in a puddle of water. Worse, it only took PREMIUM Gasoline which was in very short supply, if at all (97 Octaine). The Type 95 Ha-Go was built in 1934-1945 and was armed with a 37mm Type 98 L/46 gun (645 m/s) POSITIVES: The Japanese slapped a Diesel in there and it got 400 miles to the tankful for a 7 ton tank---that's better gas milage than my 1999 Madza Miata!!! And it could travel over rough terrain [NEGATIVES:] Razor Thin Armour (6mm-20mm) and a poor gun Yes, it had a 37mm gun (all the rage since the Germans introduced their magnificant 37mm KwK 36 L/45 (762m/s) but it only put out 645m/s meaning the Japanese 37mm could only penetrate @ 25mm@500m. What did this mean? The US M3 could knock out a Type 95 at any angle from 1Km on down. The Type 95 could ONLY take out a M3 Stewart out at 500m or less and only with a lucky shot to the side or rear. Could have been worse---the French in 1940 went up against German tanks with the mighty 37mm SA 18 Puteaux L/21 (300 m/s) that could penetrate 12mm @ 500m. The French armed their Renault R-35 & Hotchkiss H35 with 1918 era SA18s that were stripped from Renault FT17 WWI tanks in storage!!! Back to the Battle: How did we lose? GASOLINE. Two Companies (approx 37 tanks) US M3 Tanks (National Guard) motor marched to where the Japanese were and were clean out of Gasoline {75 miles a tankful---thats like driving a 2005 Dodge Ram 1500 CrewSide!!! Draining all the tanks of their GAS, The Commander cobbled up a platoon of 5 Stewart M3s. Sticking to the roads, we got ambushed and the Japanese were able to work around our sides and hit us many times before we could respond. We left our flaming wrecks and retreated back to Batan. And the fate of those drained M3s? Destroyed by our own hands!!!

[@jeffsteadman2794]

Thank you very much, its nice to have a complement, i enjoy tanks too. Got interested when i was 5yrs old and sat in a sherman.. sorry not my favorite tank, but got me started.. have a nice day :)

[@E1itEno2]

"Notice how low the HWHEELS go down in the ditch".....Coolhwhip...

[@sleestalk]

I like how even though they were enemy vehicles the instructional video still had an air of respecting thy enemy and even shows its pros, unlike what the army did with mg42 vids with all that its bark is worst than its bite, bs.

[@ZunaZurugi]

Yeah its importand to show the pros because the people who see it have maybe to fight it ^^

[@TheShallowCry]

You can beat a tank without know what it's good AND bad at...

[@ZunaZurugi]

Tobi Petvin Yeah but its allways usefull even its more importend for Pilots to know pros and cons of a plane.

[@ihatecabbage7270]

Cause the MG42 is a really really dangerous weapon, and the crew behind it are probably the kind of guy that are the best of the platoon to get such a good weapon. Best you say how shitty it was, German in most GI's mind is already a tough nut to crack, and let's don't say 1500 rounds per minute, faster than anything available at that time.......

[@ZunaZurugi]

Killian Billian Sowjet ShKAS used in planes was faster i believe... or equal.

[@evangraham]

Interesting, very informative

[@darklight436]

The japanese had the potential to build more advanced, destructive war vehicles. If they had only realized the huge supply of oil and tungsten they were sitting on in Manchukuo and Korea. Their experimental Ge class artillery proved to be able to pierce Sherman armor, however they could never take it to production before the war ended.

[@sirboomsalot4902]

darklight436 They made much more destructive tanks, just saved them all for the home defense

[@internetrules8522]

what would be the point tho? they were defending and attacking multiple small islands, it wasnt a large scale land war, it was mostly naval, the resources put into tanks would be much better spent on navy and aircraft

[@59Lemony]

They were still a very agrarian society and they didn't have the manifacturing capacity required for mass tank production. Steel was not enough to go by and they wanted to use most of it for building up the navy. Japanese were always the underdog against USA forces so it was interesting to see how they had to learn from being very offensive to very defensive (from banzai charges into defensive cave systems)

[@rogersun2197]

Wow, look at that suspension go up and down!

[@LeftyGuns87]

This tank has three men...Japanese size...LOL am I the only one?

[@eirvine]

Japanese people are smaller than Americans. This was even more true back in the 40's.

[@jaxativejax662]

Many light tanks of the early war period had crews of 3 including panzer 2s. Many prewar tanks ie panzer1s had crews of only 2 which meant that the commander had to be gunner, loader and commander.

[@AngryPenguin22]

hahah yeah man i had to rewind that a few times

[@johnnybloggs2494]

Lefty Guns It's the truth. East Asians on average ARE shorter than whites. What's inappropriate about that? Or incorrect about it? It's true even now.

[@mikewolf417]

Good info on a enemy tank and if you are a grunt you want to know the weak points and putting the info out that you can disable the turret by putting a canteen or bayonet under the lip of the turret is useful knowledge because during close quarters combat anything is helpful to neutralize a enemies capability which is paramount to survival, especially if the GI had no friendly tank around to knock out this tank and a 37mm or a machine gun could do great damage to buddies in the field. Any info is important in combat.

[@summer20105707]

It looks roughly equal to the Panzer 1, French H35 or some of the Italian tanks.

[@TanitAkavirius]

designed in the same period too

[@ambasutori9053]

summer20105707 probably better than the panzer 1, maybe equal to the H35, Altough I think the Ha - Go has the better gun and is faster.

[@Tap0k]

That's really quite cool. Great and simple vid that gives a lot of useful information on abilities and weak points. Probably did a lot of good in the days of the war. Might also be useful to us gamers! haha.

[@redreaper-xe6so]

wonder how well that bell-crank suspension would work...

[@iac4357]

@ 00:50 seconds, the bracket would shatter from a rifle bullet ? Don,t know about that, but good luck hitting that spot on a moving tank. That happens to be moving ACROSS your FOV !

[@commandplay]

nice upload

[@redreaper-xe6so]

The panzer 4 is easier to maintain, but they were using Tigers to plug gaps in their lines. A panzer 4 doesn't have the same shock value or overwhelming firepower. Germany was undone more by the fact that their industry could never handle a long war. No matter what type of tanks they build, it'd still never be enough. And the Panzer 4 was needlessly complicated--lots of roadwheels and sharp angled welds, a complex engine, etc. pz5 was a much better vehicle, but its drive system had issues.

[@redreaper-xe6so]

@SpenzOT look at the thickness of the armor. it is 12mm over the front and sides. You can penetrate it with .30-06 fire or any sort of antitank weapon (.50BMG would easily slice through it)

[@RedShocktrooperRST]

True. Then again, the Type 95 was vulnerable to anti-tank rifles like the Boys. And of course us Americans just skipped the whole "AT Rifle" thing straight to the "HEAT warhead projector".

[@SupesMe]

Geez, Compared to this a Sherman is like a King Tiger! The Tankers in the pacific must have been Saying "I don't know what those guys in Europe are complaining about? The Sherman is a GREAT tank!" :)

[@janflorovic5880]

47mm Chi-Ha medium tank could own it from front. 30's tanks were knocking out Shermans. Never mind all the 75mm artillery pieces all over the island.

[@sirboomsalot4902]

The Sherman was a great tank

[@herpderpmonkey]

how does one acquire their enemy's tank unscathed?

[@cfisher2833]

The same way ISIS got the Iraqi Abrams tanks we gave them. You take over a military installation with tanks in storage.

[@T33K3SS3LCH3N]

Either by taking over a storage depot, or by taking a bogged down tank and repairing it, or by forcing one to surrender. It often happened that tanks were cut off their supply routes and ended up without fuel or broken down by mechanical issues. Usually the crew blows up their own tank then so it doesn't fall to the enemy, but sometimes that doesn't happen for one reason or another.

[@cfisher2833]

www.dailysabah.com/mideast/2014/07/03/isiss-weapon-inventory-grows

[@jaxativejax662]

Running out of fuel or mechanical breakdown. Happened quite frequently. During the first gulf war the US forces had to abandon several M1s due to this.

[@chasingcats5147]

ChappedNegroLips and even if they did, they wont even be able to operate them, let alone maintain them.

[@nakazatoGTR]

am i crazy if i say i hear the tune of three blind mice in the background?

[@AUG351]

The armor of these Japanese tanks were so thin that a 75 mm armor piercing round could pass right through one of them. In the only tank battle of the New Guinea Campaign on Biak Island, two M4 Shermans in the 603rd Tank Battalion came head on with four Type 95's. The Shermans first fired AP, but they went right through Jap tanks, exploding in the ground behind. The Shermans then resorted to HE rounds, which did the job, blowing the turrets off the Type 95's.

[@Taxvs_]

This was only characteristic of early Japanese tanks. Later Japanese tanks had up to 3 inches of heavily sloped armor.

[@Taxvs_]

sure...

[@janflorovic5880]

75mm Sherman could pen the 1943 Panzer IV.... At least the aged Japanese tanks have an excuse

[@WildBillCox13]

Interesting that the competition between Type 95 and M3 Light tanks did not include turning radius comparisons, a performance field where the IJA AFV would be clearly superior. Still, I'd rather be a US Tanker than an IJA one.

[@Ziggy0120]

this instruction video was made in the 40's so that's kind of a giving.

[@Assassinus2]

Actually, I think the tank the Type 95 was facing off against was an M5 Stuart. But, yes, the Type 95 wasn't exactly a world-beater for armored combat, though, to be fair, it wasn't intended to be.

[@ShiNoNooby]

Exactly why the Ha-Go wasn't the only tank in the Japanese Army, you also had the Type 89 I-Go and the Type 67 Chi-Ha.

[@trilbymctip8317]

Redditor here! As a high-ranking officer of _Le Reddit Armie_ I know my share of warfare strategy.The most effective method of taking down a tank is to shove a rock in the main gun barrel. When the tank then goes to fire, the rocket hits the rock and blows up before leaving the barrel. See the 3rd Indiana Jones movie (The Temple of Doom) for an example of this. - Trilby McTip, Redditor

[@topmiacaremid7583]

Thanks. Now I can finally conquer Japan as America in CIV 5.

[@jeffsteadman2794]

Regardless of your well laid out forensic analysis your information is well said.. but you can't deny the power of simplistic Japanese engineer's .. or the power of psychological warfare ;)

[@88pie88]

@drod103164 unless the tiger runs out of ammo. About 10 shots close range

[@artificialintelligence8328]

Some Fact: Japanese tanks had such paper thin armor that US Crewmen prefered using highly explosive shells against them as armor piercing shells would have come right out on the other side.

[@Mr-Trox]

Artificial Intelligence To really get a good picture of how small that thing is, one of those things can fit onto the engine deck of an M4 Sherman, and the Sherman can still move just fine.

[@sirboomsalot4902]

Wasn't that a type 94 tankette they put on that Sherman?

[@EclipseClemens]

Agreed, light tanks have their place and are really useful. Try using a Tiger in the jungle vs 1 of these... you won't last long.

[@AppleAirsoft]

quite interesting he said it was a pritty good tank

[@ArchLich12]

"Japanese size" ah, good old casual racism gets me laughing inappropriately again.

[@johnnybloggs2494]

Rick Fister It's the truth. East Asians on average ARE shorter than whites. What's inappropriate about that?

[@artificialintelligence8328]

Well racism actually raises morale for the soldiers.

[@artificialintelligence8328]

+Smiley Face Especially if the soldiers lost friends or relatives to the enemy that is being insulted.

[@Centipede_Team]

I wouldn't have known that there were many variety of tanks in WW2 without the help of World of Tanks. Really brought some light upon my minimal knowledge of tanks. Made me into a Tank Fanatic after 1-2 years of playing WoT. I'm happy to see someone else with tank knowledge thats informing the general youtube public.

[@redreaper-xe6so]

Wouldn't say it was shit or "led the way for their surrender" but I'd definitely say it was a specialized vehicle which took up a lot of resources. The Tiger wasn't the problem. The problem was that production of tanks like the panther never reached high enough levels. And the StuG and Panzer 4 were mechanically complicated.

[@Evilmonkey7270]

Forget it. the 37mm is a door knocker against the tiger, even on the sides

[@commandplay]

awwwweee look at the cute tank

[@kusochappy11]

I hear the Japanese tank was made of tinplate, is that right?

[@sirboomsalot4902]

Please, give the Ha-Go a break! It was designed in 1934, and it was one of the best tanks in the world at that time. And it did what it could for over 10 years. It wasn't a bad tank at all, being obsolete is different form being bad. Also, that tank they are comparing it to? That's an M5 Stuart, 1942 tank! And it's not to much faster than the Ha-Go! Sorry for ranting, just wanted to get my point across

[@raiben4437]

Japan tanks will always be a joke

[@mollysmoshingtankcrew9441]

@@raiben4437 much like your shotty excuse for an opinion. The Type 10 and type 90 are great tanks.

[@makokun9]

And it blew up like firecrackers! :)

[@Direwoof]

obviously it would be hard to even get close to it. And the engine hatch would be locked

[@jeffsteadman2794]

Judging by your last name your of German background.. your comment was taken positively .. I know It's not a Tiger with a 88mm cannon.. but it was diesel powered like the T-34... but yeah .. it's crappy.. but it is Japanese ..they don't make junk.. just a vehicle to suit the purpose.. and they always run ;)

[@gilbertsakay2939]

too cute to play with

[@janflorovic5880]

US didn't even have a tank in 1933. The best they had in 1937 had only 16mm armour and 12.7mm machine gun.

[@wumingkkk]

They forgot the big open driver port hole is another weakness.

[@sirboomsalot4902]

wumingkkk It's closed in combat though

[@spreadeagled5654]

Those “3 Japanese sized men” would consider an American M-4 Sherman tank to be too big for them! 🇯🇵

[@mrbaywatch21]

narrator* my badd typo

[@TheGrandslam89]

Apparently these thanks could be knocked out by mass .30 cal fire and were very weak to .50 cal fire.

[@janflorovic5880]

Well they were extremely cheap. It was to replace type 89 I-go (1929 tank) due to being slow. Ha-Go whilst un impressive was deadly vs Chinese and it was very cheap machine. In 1937 it was still good enough to knock out BT-5 and BT-7's Japanese 40's tanks were left in Japan for home island defence. All the army was given was the 2000 obsolete Ha-Go's and 1000 47mm Chi-Ha's. The Shinhoto chi-Ha had 33mm frontal armour and it's gun could pen Sherman front from 500m away. Chi-Ha is 1936 design and had nearly the double amount of armour protection as the most armoured Russian tank at that time. There's a difference between being aged and being shit.

[@SuperDefender4]

+Jan Florovic Another flaw in here. First of all the part of being cheap? That doesn't really count since ALL light tanks are known to be cheap. The other nations could do it as well. The BT-5 and BT-7 tanks are also have 0 issues on attacking the Ha Go. Yet again you wrote the wrong information about penetrating the Sherman. In order to penetrate the Sherman with Chi Ha the crew members had to go in close combat in order to take a damage. That's like trying to penetrate an angled Tiger tank with a 76mm gun. Also being sht? There's a lot. The Chi Ha had a bad radio that had bad range. Also the tank didn't have a motor to control anything inside. Everything like the gun and the turret were hand cranked. So in the end the Japanese had problems of being both sht and outdated.

[@sirboomsalot4902]

Wasn't there a battle were the Japanese sent 50 Ha-Go's to destroy Russian artillary, and they destroyed 120 BT tanks and all the arty while loosing only 1 Ha-Go?

[@ambasutori9053]

Sir Boomsalot Khalkin Gol?

[@AppleAirsoft]

@barraki150 huh ?

[@redreaper-xe6so]

also actually it did quite well in deep much in Russia and sharply wooded terrain. Though its big gun would be wasted in close range. Point is, this thing's vulnerable to even .50 fire. Comical. Close-range rifle fire and rifle grenades can probably both disable it.

[@idabagusaryayoga4540]

who's better Panzerkamfwagen 2 or Type 95?

[@andoniarmentia1024]

Ida Bagus Arya Yoga i think that almost everything is better than the type 95

[@inouelenhatduy]

oh yhea 1934 ha-go vs M3 stuart 1939-40 tank :) design

[@sirboomsalot4902]

Ha-Go, it was faster and had better armor meant than the Panzer II, and the Ha-Go's older I think

[@xmeda]

Just a light tank, not bad, but had no chance against anything bigger.

[@lucius1976]

tank race, thats nice :-)

[@dragonsfire2289]

This tank suited its roll in china and the other asian countries perfectly. Its what it was made for. Obviously it could not stand up to western medium battle tanks. However it was almost as good as the m3 stuart light tank which it faced on guadalcanal.

[@iac4357]

At video's end. Cross country sprint speed, across flat ground, doesn't factor much in actual combat. A race across broken ground, like the video's beginning is more telling !

[@aigeh1326]

Can be used in World of Tanks.

[@user-ub9jj2co6i]

少なくとも褒めてくれたww

[@babehunter1324]

@Armydicked Funny, fuuuunny as hell dude! :D

[@huy373]

Sherman Tank is the best ;)

[@Salt249]

So...we have this tank, now what do we do? We have a tank race, duh!

[@RedShocktrooperRST]

It could very easily disable a Type 95, though shooting it in a bracket that keeps the track seems like a roundabout way to do it. I'd prefer to throw open a hatch and shoot its engine out.

[@RedShocktrooperRST]

You're right, it's not junk. Junk is salvageable. And if it's a jungle tank, why was it so hard pressed to destroy a "Siberian Wasteland" tank like the T-28? The M5 Stuart was superior in armor and mobility, and had a similar gun, and is only a turret's height taller. When you compare the Type 95 to its contemporaries, it's still rubbish. You'd be hard pressed to find a tank that wasn't the Panzer I that couldn't give ANY Japanese tank thrice its weight in trouble.

[@guy111111111111]

It fits 3 men, Japanese size.

[@jmantime]

( ._.) .... well what the fuck did you expect? the Type 95 Ha-Go was like 10 years older than both of those U.S. tanks i bet the Albanians, Greeks and Yugoslavian armies would have loved to have the Type 95 Ha-Go in their armies especially since they were all lacking enough tanks when they were being invaded by Italy and Germany in 1939-1941

[@unlimitedgaming7872]

i tried to that on BF V

[@jackzero99]

A Tiger wouldn't be able to move in the jungle. Good luck transporting it there

[@yojimbo30]

if it wasn't for the weak armor it might have worked

[@janflorovic5880]

Good tank for 1933

[@titakristengco]

The japanese Type 95 Ha-Go are equivalent the their Nazi counter part the Panzer 1or 2

[@jackzero99]

So if the Germans had built an additional 4000 Panzer IVs instead of 1300 Tigers, they would have won the war?

[@nikolayilyin1819]

I am very much doubting that, I don't think anything that Germany could do past 1941 would result in their victory.

[@judithprado8873]

this must be the smallest tank in history of tanks

[@sirboomsalot4902]

Just look up the Italian L3 tankettes...

[@Romanov117]

Nope, it's the Italian CV-33.

[@patchesdf]

What a rickety looking piece of tin. If this is what the Germans fought with the war would have been over before it had a good chance to start.

[@wymynrules8565]

what you have to know is, that both nations fought on different theaters of war. the in Europe it was mostly flat or hilly land, which would be easy for a big tank to move in. The Japanese had to fight on islands that where covered with jungles. And the Japanese didn't have any experience with armored vehicles like the Germans did in WWI. They also didn't that much of their resources into tanks like they did with battle ships.

[@KeluMocy]

The Germans fought in comparable tanks. Panzer I&II and the Czech-made Panzer 35&38. Keep in mind, those light tanks were not designed to fight other tanks, but rather as infantry support. Also, the Pacific and SEA theaters were not really tank-friendly. But yeah, since 1939 the development of the tank in the West went into overdrive and Japan couldn't keep up.

[@jaxativejax662]

It\s Japanese not German. The Japanese had acute material shortages during WW2 especially steel and didn't place a high priority on tanks as they weren't very useful during amphibious campaigns.

[@AUG351]

Actually, while fighting against the Chinese in an urban environment and against the British early in the war, Japanese tanks were quite effective in an infantry support role against an enemy who had few anti-armor capabilities. The Type 95 or Type 97 were never designed with the thought of battling something like a Sherman in mind. Late in the war the Japanese developed a few medium tanks designed to counter the Sherman, such as the Type 3 Chi-Nu or Type 4 Chi-To, armed with 75 mm guns and thicker armor. Although by the time they reached the production phase it was already too late. None of them ever saw combat, sitting in the home islands waiting for the final invasion that never came.

[@sirboomsalot4902]

LOL German tanks made at the same time as this were even less effective than this

[@iknowmy3tables]

"hold three men.. japanese size" lol, although he means Japanese men are shrimpy it also implies Americans are fat

[@jeffsteadman2794]

yeah.. just like your size ;)

[@user-zr3pz6rp6v]

meat can with oriental flavour

[@texas9ish]

this tank holds three men... Japanese size- lol

[@Armydicked]

@drod103164 Worse, Baby!!! There you are, feeling all superior and shit in your Japanese Type 95 light tank, you've got a full belly of rice and fish and you got a 37mm round in the oven because, well, you're bad-ass and looking for bear. Then you see this nice JS III coming at ya!!! That's RIGHT, SLICK!!! Your 37mm gun up against a 122mm gun and your mighty 12mm armour against the soviet's 200mm!!! It happened, it was called battle of Manchuria 1945 and yes, it was a tad one sided!!!

[@conservativemike3768]

It was good enuf for 1930s China ops and against 2nd hand colonial equipment in 1941, but after that it was time to trade it in for a newer model… which never arrived because Japan was bankrupt by 1942.

[@gp1585]

The average height of a Japanese male is 5'5. I wouldn't say its racist its just a fact.

[@panzercat39]

nothing like some good ol' fashion racism.

[@rafaelvillegas2295]

Was not a macht for the Sherman....oh..boy...they paid dearly...

[@joshelliott9350]

The only Army I'm joining, is Le Reddit Army.

[@TallThoma5]

*salutes*

[@redreaper-xe6so]

A Sherman or Lee could though.

[@Hsutheguard]

This tank gave so much troubles for the National Revolutionary Army...........

[@jeffsteadman2794]

Achtung Hochspannung :/

[@01998]

LOS TANQUES JAPONESES SOLO SE COMPARABAN CON LOS ITALIANOS, POR SU MALA CALIDAD, ERA UN TANQUE DEBIL, PERSONALMENTE CREO QUE SU FUERTE ERAN LOS AVIONES Y BARCOS, SUS TANQUES ERAN INEFICACES CUANDO SE ENFRENTABAN A TANQUES AMERICANOS O INGLESES.

[@SpenzOT]

It was considered one of the best light tanks in the world....when it was first built. By WW2 is was hopelessly obsolete against any army that had even the slightest bit of anti-tank weaponry. Just look at all those weak points. Thin, flat armor and plenty of rivets. LOL on the turret weakness. I never knew it even had that despite all the tank books I have read. Amazing video.

[@guy111111111111]

Awwww shnap.

[@12ock]

@iknowmy3table hahahahaha

[@supremesoldier354]

@TheTristan2012 no type 95 was a peice of shit even if its a jungle tank a rifle can take out the damn thing

[@therocketman321]

LOL I love how they raced it against a stuart tank, and not a Sherman. Gotta love good old WW2 propaganda.

[@snuppssynthchannel]

still a crappy tank, but not a bad machine then! :)