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maybe, though the Japanese often used their tanks as portable artillery/bunkers, which the tiger would have excelled at.

Or the home Islands. Japan has neither the LST’s, LSD’s, or other landing craft capable of landing these tanks on a beach

Did you forget the Japanese-Soviet Non-aggression Pact, signed on 4/13/1941, which allowed the USSR to move its Siberian divisions to defend Moscow in Operation Barbarossa?

@@siberiantiger3917 but Russian would break it as soon the Germany were defeated, this non aggression pact was never to be trusted from both sites. The Russian wanted their former land back mostly Sachalin and Kuril Islands, which they did after the first Atombomb fell in Hiroshima, they needed to act as long Japan was still fighting the war. They lost it during the Japanese- Russian War in 1905. The reason why Japan never actually broke it, was simply because of the Pacific War, but they too would break it as soon the Allies in the Pacific Theatre were defeated, which never happened.

Do you really think non-aggression pacts were actually kept 😂 the soviets would never allow an imperial nation to survive on their border

Katanya beberapa awak kapal selam ada yg ikut berjuang waktu perang kemerdekaan, beberapa sakit, beberapa ditembak pejuang krn dikiria orang Belanda, makanya ada makam awak kapal selam di Indonesia

Anything remain of those bases?

Singapore was also a hub for both German and Italian submarines. One of the few places where all three major Axis nations had a military presence.

Carandini Oh cool, never knew that!

@@danubrahmanta8298 Hij zei dat verschillende onderzeeboten betrokken waren bij de strijd tegen onafhankelijkheidsoorlogen, een aantal ziekten, dat sommige krijgers door de Nederlanders werden doodgeschoten, dus er waren tombes in onderzeeërs in Indonesië

If the Japanese weren't home, Amazon would have left the order with their neighbours. Then its goodbye panzers!

Jack Bruce lol

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@@yellowjackboots2624 "koichi, which neighbour did they leave the parcel with?" "Erm, it says Burma" "Shiiiit"

>Sherman crew lands on Japanese island >All quiet >88 fires and knocks out a Sherman from bushes >What the hell! - Sherman crew > Is that a.. Tiger! - Sherman Crew >*Que Tiger Battle theme from Fury*

the US deployed M47s and M48s (as well as M551 Sheridan, and others) under the same conditions, but the mechanical record of both of those tanks were sterling, and both the US and Australia had the logistics train to support heavy armor in those conditions. The Japanese were stretched too thin by the time the Island Campaign began in depth. They might have been useful as pillboxes, though, given their toughness.

Mud would have definitely posed a problem but the Japanese really didn't fight in or from the jungle that much. Aside from the isolated sniper or two, the Japanese preferred to operate in the open, like any other army, rather than in the jungle.

Marc Conyard That's because like any good Aussie, we taught our Centurion's how to do the Aussie Crawl, ie to swim freestyle in the mud it's the only way to move around.

Despite it's size the tiger had such a big track that it's ground pressure per square in was quite light. That issue not withstanding it is questionable whether the Japanese could establish a logistical network to support a tiger. The big issue would be the deployment of tigers to the Pacific islands. I speculate that it would have been viable for the defense of the Japanese Homeland only or China

A Tiger wasn’t a Centurion. The Centurion was more advanced and reliable than the Tiger, in addition, supply and maintenance techniques available to the Ozzie’s were far more advanced and effective. Not to mention 20 years to refine doctrine, tactics and procedure, as well as arty support and air cover. But we can all admit that Vietnam Nam wasn’t really a tank war. The biggest turd in the punch bowl, would be the Japanese lack of heavy lift capacity. They could barely serve their existing island hopping and light infantry intensive military... to move a Tiger, let alone a Tiger unit and the attendant fuel and maintenance supplies was difficult for the Germans, it would have been essentially impossible for the Japanese. Further, w out proper doctrine, a Tiger, in the jungle or more common mountainous terrain, slowed and stripped of infantry, would have been relatively easy prey for the crowbar and satchel charge. Japanese Tigers would have likely been wasted as pillboxes w a mobility capacity. The Japanese would have been far better served by buying or building licensed Panzer III’s. (not the Stug. It wouldn’t adapt well to jungle warfare) The Panzer III was much better than the existing Japanese junk tanks, an established reliable design, superior to anything the Japanese would encounter in China and with the long 50mm (provided an HE shell was available) an easy equal to the M3-M5s the US favored for island warfare, and not too disadvantaged against a Sherman at close range and a side or ass shot ( kinda like the Sherman vs. the Tiger), not to mention relatively easy to transport and support. Besides it was cheap!!! Anyone disagree?

The Japanese main opponents were Chinese that would fight and then retreat to new positions, they would give away land for time. They were playing the long game. There was nothing for Japanese tanks to exploit. The Japanese didn't have a lot of use for tanks in defensive island fighting. What they could have used was small mobile tank destroyers taking advantage of interior lines. But they were going to lose anyway.

Actually, the IJN was prioritized over the IJA that's why they can't produce that much of tanks.

Tanks would have not helped Japan anyway,Japan lost the war at midway when their aircraft carriers was destroyed

@@hughg.rection9673 thats irrelevant? the fuck does losing a carrier in midway does to japan having a proper tank force before they event went to war with the allies

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@@MarkFeltonProductions thank you very much but i hate the comment thats make fun of history u can see dow there so many,i love history and i hate someone making fun of it

If they wont I sure as hell will, I want my own personal tiger to drive around my farm!

I don't think they need them these days! Even compared to monsters like the Challenger 2 and Abrahms tanks, the Japanese still have access to some pretty lethal stuff if they wanted it. Their 'Type 90' is a very capable vehicle. Thankfully it seems they learned a lot from WW2 and state that they only have an army for self defence purposes now.

The Type 90 is a licensed and modified version of the Leo 2, so they already have some

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If I had more money than I could ever spend, I'd invest a lot into retrieving the original blueprints and have a new one built to original specifications. I can't for the life of me figure out why no billionarie has not done so yet.

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The vids are short, to the point, and offer cool tidbits of information. And the narrator's voice does not irritate me but is neutral.

His voice reminds me of Tim Pigott-Smith's.

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ah shame though this tiger will be the only one the next generation gets to see... the genocide continues... humanity fuck yeah!

@array s yeah... But you gotta admit some Tiger tanks actually did well in the war, One even destroyed 22 t-34's in the battle of Kursk

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I see what you did there

This goes deeper than we thought. 😮

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I forget now which book I read the account in, but there was a Sherman crew who fired on a Japanese tank and completely freaked out because it seemed like their shells weren't doing a damn thing. Finally they tried an HE round and the tank went up like a Roman candle. Afterwards, when they examined the wreckage they saw that their initial shots - all with AP - had simply been punching through one side and going out the other.

@@Carandini - As the saying goes, armor less than three inches thick only serves to detonate shells that might have passed with little damage otherwise.

japanese tanks where pretty much italien-tier tanks outdated trashcans for the middle-end of WW2 >inb4 yes, they may have better ones, but most where just thin armored... trashcans.

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@@MarkFeltonProductions :) I got a respons 😂

It was my very first book, so you are kind!

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@@changvang5907 I did......

@@changvang5907 i did, i collect all Japanese Premiums

There's in WOT too

@@changvang5907 they have same thing as a premium in World of Tanks

@@changvang5907 I've fought against it twice, so at least one person

Waqar Ahmad I remember an interesting point when I was reading about the 1911 pistols, and how the modern productions of these pistols are nowhere near as reliable as their older counterparts. You can produce every part of a machine within specifications; but when you fit these parts together and expect it to work, chances are some fine tunings are needed even if everything do fit. And that’s why just having a blueprint won’t help the Japanese produce tigers. They need to know how, and where to modify it if they ever do produce one in their own factory.

Is'nt the Chi-ri planned to mount 75 mm autoloader?

@@eugeneyesledge It certainly was a problem with production back then, as often times blueprints were made, but in production things were modified. A similar thing happened with the Saturn V F1 engines, which you would not be able to reproduce with just the blueprints alone nowadays, as many parts were hand crafted or hand modified during production. With todays computer aided and robotic design and manufacturing technology, though, you would be able to transfer a blueprint and have the parts fit together without trouble. Still doesn't mean that you won't make modifications to things, like the US did when they adapted the Rheinmetall 120mm gun for the M1 Abrams in the form of the M256, using slightly different alloy compositions to deal with somewhat higher pressures in the barrel and a different recoil system and rotating the breech block by 90°, so that it fit in the M1 turret.

@Soren G From what I understand the Chi-Ri was never planned to mount a modified Type 99 88mm gun. Instead it was planned to mount a variant of the Type 5 75mm with a loading assistance tray. The tray is the main reason why the Chi-Ri's turret was so large. Although the Chi-Ri never actually had a main gun mounted before the project was cancelled.

@@eugeneyesledge That's not true, though. Some modern 1911 productions are much more reliable and better machined than those of the past.

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It doesn't bear thinking about - imagine a few on Iwo Jima or Okinawa! Yikes!

TheSturmovik Like they can move a tiger tank within a small tunnel network. Even if they did get it on the surface and conceal it the tank would eventually be destroyed by the constant naval bombardment since the whole island was a giant crater by the end

Dig one of them into a beachhead and you would've had quite the defense. Not to mention that and all the artillery and heavy armaments the Japanese could muster.

If frogs had wings they wouldn't bump their arses on the ground. It was never going to happen. Japanese industry was too weak. Also remember the Germans had Tigers, Panthers, and bears oh my, and it did them no good in Normandy and France.

Imagine a U.S. atomic bomb vaporizing it.

They were caught up in the same delusions as the Germans. Look at Yamato and Musashi.

Exactly my first thought was the Panzer III or even better the cheaper to build Stug III.

because they already had a shitton of light tanks that are mostly competent, they probably wanted heavier tanks to combat the soviets or if operation downfall was initiated

Buying would be faster for them, since it takes time to set up factories, get the tooling made, and train personnel to produce the tanks. So by buying them they would have tanks ready to go while they're busy setting things up to the produce them domestically. However, they probably would have a hard time producing Panthers and Tigers due to the lack of raw materials and competition with the Imperial Japanese Navy for them, esp. for steel. When it came to strategic resources like steel, priority always went to the IJN so at best the Japanese Army would have only been able to produce Tigers & Panthers in very limited numbers.

@@Riceball01 I seriously doubt that Tigers and Panther would of been suitable for the Pacific theater. Japanese tank designs are the way they are because of the local terrain. Heck I seriously doubted the heavier Japanese designs. I think the Chi-Nu was the best design the Japanese came up with that would work in the local terrain. In fact the Chi-Nu was a working design that was produced in 1944 to 1945. Problem was the Japanese kept it for home defense making it useless. The Chi-Nu was based on Chi-He so it didn't even need to wait for Germany to give technical support. It was the perfect tank to build, but the IJN needed the steel for destroyers and carriers. Tigers and Panther would be too big for SEA jungles and even in the home front, most Japanese bridges would not support them.

@@Riceball01 And the US could deal with them in the east as they did in the west.

Glad to hear

Yes, German U-boats had small bases within Japanese naval bases at Singapore, Kure and Indonesia. One U-boat actually completed a combat patrol in the Pacific.

Part of what I’ve read is that the IJN looked on the U-Boats not as an allies, but as unwanted guests.

I didn't know there was a U-boat in my nation for a while

cartmanrlsusall Irony.

The Germans were well known for putting anything they got in enough quantity into service. This is why you see Panzer 38Ts early on in the war because they got a ton of them when they took over Czechoslavakia. When they eventually conquered France they in turn put French tanks into service and when things were going well during Barbarossa, they put all sorts of Soviet equipment into service.

One can only hope!

and it was worse, probably even morse than the he-162

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@Fire Power701 @boltanadzo TV Not really, in many ways Imperial Japanese Empire, was probably better off for metals & metal bearing ores/rocks than Germany was, at least at the start of their respective hostilities. They did get some plans/details of the Tiger E/1 (H), as when combined with their improving Type 1 Medium Tank Chi-He (2601/1941) & Type 4 Medium Tank Chi-To (2604/1944) design trends, with Eatern Front combat data, lead towards the Japanese's interpretation of a Tiger, the Type 5 Medium Tank Chi-Ri (2605/1945) prototype machine. Another thing that really didn't help them was the continued heavy rivalry and hatred between the Army and the Navy, and the few things they tolerated having to share. Generally dispising being forced to if not help each other, then at least share some information enough for pre-planning purposes - you could say the Japanese Military was like two non-identicle twins who immensely disliked the other, barely communicating at all to other through the struggling War Office parent. The Japanese only really lacked rubber and oil(s), enough of a merchant fleet to transport supplies, troops and raw materials, or the need to keep producing its merchantmen. Also lacked foresight to create a back-up encryption codes & methods not related to existing systems still in or withdrawn from use, and the continued priority of aircraft, ships and ammunition over and before any vehicle & small-arms R&D. with regards strategic materials & personsal/workforce allocations. I do not mean to give offence, or the impression I support or condone what acts of horror some of its imperial troops/politicians did do.

Considering how they failed to replicate uboats and the rocket comet, it would've been impossible.

Attackment? Duh!

Interestingly, Japanese tank officers did carry their swords inside their vehicles!

Chesty Puller does not approve!

yes....

Well, where do you think George Lucas got the light sabers for his Star Wars films? You think a steel blade can stab a tank?