For transport, tanks could be loaded on train platforms like in any other army of the times. However, the Type 89 Medium tank could not keep pace with the motorized infantry, which could move at 40 km/h (25 mph) by truck. Approximately 2,300 were produced, making it the most numerous Japanese armoured fighting vehicle of the Second World War.įrom early 1930s, the Japanese army began experimenting with a mechanized warfare unit combining infantry with tanks.
It proved sufficient against infantry but, like the American M3 Stuart light tank, was not designed to combat other tanks. The Type 95 Ha-Gō ( 九五式軽戦車 ハ号, kyūgo-shiki kei-sensha Ha-Gō, also known as the Ke-Go ) was a light tank used by the Empire of Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War, at Nomonhan against the Soviet Union, and in the Second World War.
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