Japan's Sherman Hunter, the Chi-Ri | Cursed by Design

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Italy: I got the worst tanks! Japan: No, I got the worst tank! China: You guys got tanks?

Fun fact: The Chi-Ri is about the same size as the Tiger ll Let that sink in for a moment

"People think that Japanese tanks are incapable, which in most case is true" Cries in Chinese bought panzer 1 and 2

A crappy tank is a monster when there are no tanks or guns to oppose it. The Imperial Japanese army were brilliant about getting their "crappy" tanks into the fight. They were pretty effective in Burma and the Philippines early on.

I've always thought that one of the reasons that Japanese tanks tended to be so small and lightly armoured was the fact that their planned expansion involved a lot of island hopping. Therefore, the tanks needed to be easily transported by ship & landing craft. Additionally, there is the fact that a lot of jungle warfare would be expected, so smaller tanks would have an advantage in negotiating roads that were little more that dirt paths through dense jungle.

Guys this tank is actually goated

Well, one of things I like about Japanese tank design is that once high command realised they needed something new and sent some actual funding down to R&D after having knee-capped it almost a decade earlier the advancements came at a very high rate. Even the Type 4 Chi-To is actually pretty decent if only 'too little, too late'. Edit: Also unfortunate that the US scrapped it. It'd made a pretty cool museum piece.

I forget what exact tank it is but I met a guy who owned a tank collection and he had a Japanese tank. While he was restoring it they kept punching wholes through the armor trying to fix the bullet holes. He ended up taking a piece to a metallurgy expert and found out that parts of the tank were made of nickle

The auto loader on the Chi-Ri 2 has saved me more times than I can count on WT

What would the Chi-Ri and Chi-To's Type 5 Gun be the Equivalent too exactly my bet is on the German 75 L/70

I just love how of the tanks in battlefield V the Japanese tanks are the most op period.. I watched a type 97 take on by itself a Sherman and two LVTs and the damn thing won against the Sherman an LVT and most of the second one.. the only thing that saved the third one was some punk with a lunge mine

I also like how during the war the Germans got the memo and started adding sloped armor but the Japanese were like no fuck that

I actually like the overall silhouette. It looks pretty modern compared to some of the other early cold war. The spacious turret and the autoloader mechanism is something I like too. Plenty of room for ammo, crew and the idea of the autoloader just being there to help speed up the firing rate of the main cannon in short bursts is something I really appreciate compared to other systems where they feed straight from the ammo storage to the cannon. If the autoloader breaks for some reason, the loader crewmate can still keep the gun firing.

The Japanese weren't ignorant about tank building, they just did what they could with their limited resources.

i just thought about it, next episode of cursed by design should be “cursed by design: war thunder”

I've heard that the ho-ri with sloped armour wasn't even real and that the picture surfaced in the 70s.

the Chi-to is one of the best looking imperial japanese tanks. Then you have this chunky boi

"Sherman hunter" is only moderately better than the late Shermans

"Sherman Hunter" is an odd name for a Japanese guy.