![]() The Type 89 was a perfectly suitable tank for its time and performed well in its intended role. If the I-Go in its heyday could be defeated by a “rifle,” then so could the BT-7. It had a maximum hull thickness of 17mm, while the well-known Soviet BT-7 tank (which was produced years later) had a hull thickness of 6-20 mm, and a turret thickness of only 10-15 mm. This fallacy can be exposed with one example: The first Japanese-designed tank to be widely used in battle was the Type 89 I-Go Medium Tank, designed in 1928 and mass produced by Imperial Japan for its ambitions of territorial expansion in places like China. Casual dismissals like “almost all Japanese tanks could be defeated by a rifle” are uninformed at best. A persisting myth, especially when it comes to Japanese tanks and other ground units of World War II and the years leading up to it is that “(Imperial) Japan made “bad tanks”.
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