Colonial-Marine said:Any links to this article? Given the strategic transport requirements and the terrain Japan had to deal with in the Pacific their super-heavy tank efforts seem like quite the oddity to me. Does what little documentation that survived the war detail the intended purpose of these behemoths?
But what in China would require 100 ton tanks to deal with?jcf said:You forget the real target and prize: China.
The only real O-I is the one of the blueprints. All other variants, including those in World of Tanks, are misinterpretations from a period when the blueprints were not know yet.The Sensha blog posted an update on the O-1 in 2020, this is discussing fictional variants, some of which had cropped up in World of Tanks. As is that games want the freelanced variants are presented as if they were historic projects, even if they were not.
Fake Japanese Super-heavies
In 1939, the Imperial Japanese Army suffered total strategic defeat at the hands of the Soviet Union surrounding the village of Nomon...sensha-manual.blogspot.com
This is not for China,This is for Russia
In 1939,Japanese were beaten badly by Russia in MongoliaThis is not for China,This is for Russia
An attempt to laugh Red Army tankers into unconsciousness?