The Australian War Museum states that the armour for the Type 95 Ha-Go varied between 6mm to 12mm. So, effectively tissue paper as far as a 25-pounder, firing an 11.5kg shell with up to 900g of HE filling, is concerned.
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The Australian War Museum states that the armour for the Type 95 Ha-Go varied between 6mm to 12mm. So, effectively tissue paper as far as a 25-pounder, firing an 11.5kg shell with up to 900g of HE filling, is concerned.
Yeah that would burst them like an over ripe tomato hurled at a wall. And really no tank in WW2 would like getting slapped by a 25lb HE shell. Even if it does not go through the armour the shock damage would be unpleasant for the crew inside.
Well they have Misrata, which is over 150 miles closer to Malta than Benghazi. Of course, once North Africa is secure, their attention can turn to other places, such as seizing Rhodes and the Dodecanese, and also the Pelagie Islands, and eventually Pantelleria.
And Canada, thought it's somewhat more distant.
I don't think they'd bother with AP, HE would insta-kill it anyway. Honestly, the HE rounds would probably use the tank as shrapnel.
Well the Aussies will be fighting in Malaya.
Ah, 'tin-cans on tracks'.
Yep, though, given that the Commando and Marines have been training up for that, it will probably be their bailiwick, at least initially, since they have amphibious tanks ready to iron out the kinks for that sort of operation. Though I think with the Greek Islands, they can afford to take their time with them to a degree since they are effectively trapped right now, so they can practice getting it squared away.
I am 100% Headcanon sure that the Sherman crew found the Type 94, lashed it up, and then spent the next two weeks trying literally everything they could think of to find some way of getting it shipped back to the US.
Nah took a wrong turn in the dark and wasn't watching where they were going.
The Temuka depot of the Ministry of Works did a fine job, given the circumstances
Well yeah, a country with barely any industry, and a total population smaller than most national capitals isn't going to be producing many armoured vehicles, is it?
Did exactly what it was built for. Show the public the New Zealand government was doing all it could with what it had to defend against an unlikely Japanese landing.
New Zealand built hundreds of Universal Carriers.
New Zealand also designed a tank far superior to the Semple: The Schofield Tank. It was still total crap by mid-WW2 standards, and it never entered service, but it WAS a better design than the Semple. Still, not a bad effort for a country that had never built a tank before and was starting from scratch, during a wartime invasion threat. For comparison, just examine the crappy "armoured" vehicles the British hastily pressed into service during the post-Dunkirk invasion panic, and the Brits HAD experience building tanks & armoured cars.
Schofield tank - Wikipedia
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The final version of the Schofield would have been an acceptable light tank in 1939 or as an armoured car up to 1943.
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No, it showed why you don’t put a government minister in charge of a defence project.
~1,300 all told. Not bad really.