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Continuing our Japanese tank line is the Type 89 I-Go Ko, a modification of the Japanese Empire’s first series-produced tank.
Development of the Type 89 I-Go series tanks began back in 1927, when the Empire was considering what would be the better choice; To buy tanks from Europe or try to produce their own. It turned out that with the help of the technologies and lessons learned from European tank designs, Japan was capable of creating its own armored vehicle and putting it into series production.
The Type 89 I-Go medium tank went into its first battles in Manchuria in the beginning of 30s, after which, thanks to the experience gained from these operations, some very noticeable modernizations were made to its base model. By that time, the primary manufacturer of the Type 89 I-Go was the Mitsubishi company, so the Type 89 I-Go Ko version was entirely made by the engineers of that company. The base model’s tracks were replaced with more durable small-link tracks. Its frontal armor plate was made as a single attached part and the gun mantlet and its armor were changed. One interesting change was that the observation instruments were additionally armored and partially moved to new positions. This is because the Chinese infantry, possessing no anti-tank measures, had learned how to fire through the observation ports with their rifles and machine guns, killing the Japanese crews.
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In spite of the work done, the tank still had many flaws: weak armor, excessively complicated controls and low speed. These flaws subsequently caused serious problems in the battles of Khalkhin Gol and, of course, the large-scale wars on the Pacific. On the other hand, the Japanese tank designers gained valuable experience in developing, manufacturing and modernizing their own tanks.
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In War Thunder, the Type 89 I-Go Ko will be the first vehicle in the Japanese medium tank line. It is fully expected that the battle strategy on this tank will be very similar to that of the reserve tanks of other countries, but with its own flair – the tank’s 57 mm Type 90 cannon (the same as on the Chi-Ha) has interesting ballistics which require the gunner to take a rather high vertical lead. Shells fired over a great distance fly along an extremely steep trajectory, and that means that an experienced gunner can hit an opponent in cover or can fire from behind a hill. In addition, although the Type 89 I-Go Ko’s shells have weak penetration, they contain a significant weight of explosives, thanks to which their post-penetration effect is perhaps the best of the rank.
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Players who want to research Japan’s medium tank tree will be trying out the Type 89 I-Go Ko first of all. Keep an eye on our news and don’t miss the launch of Japanese tanks in War Thunder!
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Comments (109)
This tank is now one of the oldest looking tanks in the game. The little tail for the help to go over trenches, these small tracks from a FT-17. The suspension looks more like the same of the vickers mk I. It will for me a history lesson of tank development when i drive the Type 89B.
Uhm... isn't the hull machine gun supposed to be on the left side?
Its nice that the dev team continue to add new vehicles , but i think that adding a new battle type will be a lot better . The world war feature ? it has been canceled or delayed? . Anyway nice tank , good job to 3d modeler
Dev team who prepare vehicle models have nothing to part of the dev team who is preparing World War mode.
They are probably waiting for ships to come out
Looks like a WW1 tank. Will we get late WW1 Tanks?
We do not plan to add any WW1 tank. If you check them, you will notice that all of them are really weak and will not fit to the War Thunder battlegrounds.
Stona_WT, Ok thanks. At least we can drive these things around with the British Symbol on them to make them look like they were in WW1. Actual some WW1 tanks did fight in WW2 so. yea.
One derpy tank to rule them all ...
Now I just want to watch volleyball.
This tank.....ITS TOO CUTE -3-
now people are going to start doing girls und panzer stuff with the new Japanese tanks
All we need is the B1 and we can have the whole Oorai team now. :D Panzer IV, STuG III, 38(t), Type 89, M3 Lee... could do the whole battle with Pravda then!
The hull model is wrong, this hull is more likely a Type89 Ko early version, the driver seat should be on the right side of the tank in the Type89 Otsu instead of on the left
and even the suspension is from the Type89 Ko early type
So for weak armor we have shells with a lot of HE filler?
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