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Originally Posted by Tallor
My wikipedia searches came back empty so I must ask--what sort of tank DR would a Japanese tank have in the Burmese campaign?
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It wouldn't have been great
This is the
Type 97 medium tank, it and it's improved version below was their main tank of the war
it weighed 15 tonnes, it had 57mm gun, and it it's armour is 9-28mm thick (gun mantlet reaching 50mm)
the
improved version had a better gun and armour range of 8-33mm
Very roughly going with the Panzer 4s front armour of 280DR in HT, and the fact that its front armour was 3.1 inches thick that gives a DR per inch of 90*.
Neither tank seems to have used sloping particularly, so assuming the metal the Japanese armour was made from was roughly as protective. I'd say at it thickest (presumably from the front) I'd say the earlier Type 97 is 100DR, and the improved version is 120DR
all very back of envelope though.
*so a bit better than RHA, and I think in line with the various steels mentioned in the armour articles in Pyramid for the TL