Cairns , Australia. You're welcome.

You should come here. I was in Japan last August. I valued the nice manners you display. The people are really good people there.

It was certainly captured (as towed artillery is in general is very prone to be). Taken back for evaluation most likely...why it was traded off by a collector (most likely) could be due to laws changing, regarding military hardware (even deactivated pieces)

Why can’t you visit? Half way around the world is nothing, us Aussies travel all over the world, just the same in reverse is it not?

@@johnnewman366 Traveling with chronical medical issues is just very complicated and expensive while I live on benefits. AT least for the moment it's just not in my budget, physically and finacialy, sadly. Maybe some day 😁

Obviously I was unaware of your medical issues, hope things get better for you, ok? It’s just that there are so many comments made (not specifically you), that bang on about ‘how far away Australia is’ from them. It goes both ways, us Aussies travel widely, doesn’t matter what corner of the globe, you’ll always bump into an Aussie or two. Cheers,

@@johnnewman366 Thank man, absolutly no offense taken, I just honetsly answered your question. I have family living in Tasmania and I live in the city where Able Tasman was born, so it's far away yet strikingly close in some other ways, haha 🤣

So that thing would have to be within 50 metres to penetrate a Sherman frontally. Not a very nice place to be.

​@@LafayetteCCurtisit gas small dimensions & the Japanese usually hides & camouflaged them expertly. Added with Japanese discipline, usually they were able to knock the unsuspecting Shermans at close range.

@@wisewarnanazara317 Dunno but I'm under the impression that they did that mostly with flank shots (i.e. to the Sherman's vertical sides). On the one hand, knocking out a Sherman from such a short rsnge would have been a bad idea if the surviving members of the Sherman's crew didn't panic, since now they'd know where the Japaneae bunker was and would have been able to spray it with machine gun fire even if the main gun was busted. On the other hand, Japanese antitank defence doctrine emphasised siting their AT weapons enfilade positions just like everybody else's, so I wasn't talking about either a preferred or typical scenario up there -- facing a Sherman frontally would have been a worst-case nightmare scenario.

@@LafayetteCCurtis nope. That one pic of a 47mm position with Sherman wrecks just tens of meters away should gave you the idea of how the Japanese use their anti tank guns. They were fully aware of Sherman's armour profile at that stage of the war. It is not one AT guns, but a number of various AT guns fired at once.

@@wisewarnanazara317 That picture shows the Shermans mostly side-on to the Japanese gun! I don't even understand what you're arguing against. Yes, the Japanese quickly learned the strong and weak points of the Sherman's armour, but that led them to the sensible but absolutely conventional practice (which they had already adopted even before the war) of siting their guns where they could fire at Allied tanks' sides and rear.

There is; it's a farm find and it ain't running anytime soon. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aOCgg6Z6mqvMink.html

Yes there is a video of the Type 95 Ha-Go from about 18mths agro, do a search, ok? Not currently a runner, but in that video they said there are plans (eventually) to make it a runner.

They have to remove the asbestos that’s in it before they can even start.

@@johnnewman366 thank you,I dont think i searched far enough back and must've missed it

No prob, it is there, from around late 2022. I gather it’s on the ‘to do’ list, but the two workshop teams certainly have their hands full with all the other rebuilds and restorations, which always appears to be growing all the time. Cheers,

We have the 7.7cm Fk 96 (Hamel gun) which we have done a video on.

They’re pretty close mouthed about where they acquire items, especially WW2 German parts. They have recently disclosed that they have established relationships with Panzer Farm in Poland and a similar organization in the Czech Republic. I think that a lot of parts come out of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine but you need to be alert to the opportunity and be able to make a cash transaction on the spot. The Poles and Czechs are in a position to do this. As for a Japanese anti tank gun I have no idea.

About one year ago the Museum posted a 90 minute episode about the restoration, starting from shattered armour plates. It's not a runner which is easy to understand when you see what they had to work with. There is also a separate 10 minute 'walkaround' by Jason.

I don’t think we’re talking abt the same vehicle

Glycol not only lowers the freezing point of water, it also raises the boiling point. Being 4.5 times more viscous than water, it is well suited to being used with water as hydraulic fluid. It was probably also easier for the Japanese to obtain during the war than mineral oil.

Japanese Type 95 Ha-Go

Seems there are some really wussy elements creeping into Australia's legislature. Wokism, the new global illness. (From Ireland)

I believe based off a captured Soviet model which was based on a German gun

@@tomhenry897 But one of the 3 Japanese 37mm guns were allready much earlyer a copy of the German Pak, a licenced copy.