As one of a Japanese tank fan, I didn't know nothing about the button at the back of the tank !. Right now we have Type95 tank almost ready to ship to Japan from England after the restoration has been finished. Hoping your Ha-Go will back to life again in the near future !.👍

I've never really had a compelling reason to visit Australia until I stumbled across this channel. You've got some mighty interesting machines in that museum of yours.

That tank is a work of armored art. A world treasure.

For some reason I find these tanks really cool. They seem like a really good design for the era and for what they wanted to do with it.

Great video! Hey I am familiar with the Ha-Go here at the Oregon Military Museum. They are taking special safety precautions during their restoration efforts because the inside of the turret is normally equipped with an ASBESTOS heat shield blanket all over the inner surface of the turret. Hopefully that has been removed already on your tank, however, be on the lookout for it! Just in case it is still there. Wet removal methods within a containment bag work best to remove that stuff. Good luck in your resto! Jerry

Thanks Kurt and Jason for taking the time and sharing... do like the Wednesday & Friday videos.

This guy is really impressive - he really knows a lot about this tank!

I was just there on a visit from Canada in July. I stumbled on your museum quite by accident and, as a Japanese militaria hobbyist, was delighted at the Ha-Go and your rare artillery collections. I was excited to hear that the Type 95 is high on your restoration list!

Ac-1 and AC-IV chillin in the background

I am at at wonder if the surname of Jason is Encyclopedia-Britannia. His knowledge and passion he shared with us is extraordinary. Why would you want Saturday night's lotto numbers when you can watch and learn so much about the history of the collection, The Australian Amour and Artillery Museum has. Thank you Jason and Kurt.

You Aussie folk are the best Thank you

I can't wait to see this beauty restored.

Looking forward to watching the restoration.

Thank you so much for this and whilst I'm sure I'm not the only one who suggested you do this kind of video, it warms my heart you guys are getting these beautiful old war machines out to the world.

Fantastic piece of history. Good luck on the restoration ! What a nice little tank.

Fascinating, thanks. I hope you guys make plenty more of these and cover everything you have, tanks, artillery and more

Great overview of a fascinating little vehicle.

What a treat, what a beauty. Thank you gentlemen.

Thank you to all at Aus Armor. Every episode is totally interesting. Jason, your knowledge of tanks and other equipment is amazing. Please start a series showing the collection you have. I’d love to travel there to see your museum in person, but I don’t see it happening any time soon so I’ll enjoy it through your videos. Cheers from Georgia, USA!

Cant wait to follow this project!! Japanese armor is too rare these days and there is a lot to be learned about their tactics and equipement!!

Looking forward to seeing the restoration of this tank,, its only small won't take long 😂

Great!! Just great!! Can’t wait to see the resto on this one 👍👍👍👍😁

I can't wait to see this on Workshop Wednesdays! My favorite tank. An underappreciated vehicle

Outstanding close look at the tank collection. Thank you

The Japanese made the most of their light tanks. In the beginning of the war they caught the Allies unprepared, so these small tanks were effective against infantry and small field guns. During the battle of Singapore the Japanese used their tanks pretty effectively during the “push” down the peninsula on their way to the city.

Excellent video and presenter. Well done! Thank you very much for posting this.

Great video, looking forward to seeing many more

Ah..facts. Love it. Great film guys.

How knowledgeable is Jason 👍👍👍

Great explanation and I enjoyed seeing the 75mm artillery gun in the background.

I really enjoyed this video, thanks! An amazing museum.

That was very interesting and informative. Thank you for taking the time and the effort to produce and present this clip.

excellent work Kurt, hats off to you sir.👌

Thanks guys. Love this. A really historically relevant & important AFV insofar as Australians are concerned. For a LIGHT tank introduced in 1935, it was well suited to purpose as illustrated by its service up until the end of 1942. As so many Japanese weapons, it's real vulnerability was being kept in service well past its obsolescence date under production pressures of war unique to Japan's situation. For all the vulnerability criticisms, as a close infantry support tank vice-versa this tank would be exceptionally well supported by infantry in close proximity. It's raison d'etre, taking out improv. bunkers and other defensive hard points such as prepared HMG positions as the Aussies use the Stuart's assigned to them at Buna did. TMK Molotov cocktails weren't exactly a thing in jungle fighting (?), and getting close enough to place a demo charge or magnetic mine or block the traverse with a "water can"... is fanciful, not disputing the hypothetical of perhaps sticking a rifle butt or spade handle in there to jam the turret traverse in the unlikely instance one could get close enough. Possibly their greatest vulnerability like the Stuart/Honey would be to light AA weapons deployed in an ad hoc AT role against their vulnerable thin armour? FI of those interested, Dragon do the three primary variants of Early, Hokuman & Late of the Ha Go in 1/35 model from a tooling produced about a decade ago. They are a fabulous fit and fun build. I have the Early.

Great video very interesting as always thanks guys

Great video!

I’m out of state for a family reunion and as I’m driving down some side roads I noticed a garage blocked off by a chain link fence. I notice a cannon in the yard behind the fence as well as a pair of M47 Pattons but what really caught my attention was a pair of Ha-Gos sitting under an awning back there too. I had to do a double take and then decided to turn back around to confirm. Blew my mind. I’ve been to plenty of museums all my life but I’ve never caught sight of any Japanese tanks and now I’m aware that there is some guy who (by the looks of things) spends his time restoring and collecting tanks and other military equipment who is just sitting on a pair of Ha-Gos in some small town in the middle of the US.

Love these great overview

Excellent, this channel is a worthy companion to the great stuff from the Bovington people.

YES MY FAVORITE TANK!!!! :D Thank you for this vidEO!

I'm looking forward to that restoration! I love this channel! New subscriber, and glad I found it!

Looking forward to the restoration vids!

Fantastic I like these informational videos, I had not heard of this tank, please keep them coming. Regards.

Very informative video. Thanks. Hope to see it restored.

Superb video, you're on a winner here. More please

Jason thank you for the great presentation of this Japanese tank, looking forward to more in the future . cheers from the USA

Um dos meus tanques favoritos, Finalmente.

cant wait !!

Nice addition mates.

Thanks for the video! Is this going to be a weekly series, going over the tanks of the museum? As I am unable to go to the museum any time soon, it would be interesting to see some of the vehicles of your collection.

It’ll be great to see it restored

Great Info.Thank-you God bless

Can't wait to watch the restro

Great but brief video Aus' Armour guys & gals, It is unfortunate to wait for more of this vehicle, but the restoration crew can only do so much with so many hands and fingers 👍😛😜 ...for those wanting a Japanese inside the hatch style, look for Potential History's video on a Ha-Go and a Chi-Ha.

WOW !! What an excellent and possibly unique subject to renovate and wouldn't it be fantastic to see this AFV actually running. Great brief and thanks for posting.

One set of tracks looks great

Thanks mate

Nice example for restoration....I need to visit

I can cut ,weld and rivet as a tradesmen kinda love things like this Love to work on something like this

Thanks for sharing! An incredibly informative video. And to keep the joke going: You should make it a runner!

5:30 AC4 in the background! Let's have a look at that one please! 😄

Decided to look up this tank because of a video game I’ve been playing (Battlefield 1943). The game models it pretty accurately except for making it much larger than it is in real life!

That's a restoration I look forward to seeing. The resto crew is more than up to the task but I imagine their fabrication skills will be put to the test on that baby.

I'm quite looking forward to seeing this vehicle be restored. The German armour is fairly well covered, but I could use some more insight into Japanese tanks.

I think it would be nice to see that tanks operating. Thanks.😁

I remember Monty, visited him and quite a few of the other vehicle and military collectors back in the late 70's and into the 80's around Sydney, Newcastle, Wollongong, Canberra etc. Tanks, ferrets, dingos, Saracens, dukw etc. Did cable lacing restoration on a few as well as other bits and pieces.

Now thats something i'd like to see in Workshop Wendesday.

FIRST Greetings from America! Love your work at AusArmor, it really is amazing

That’s gonna be a fun restoration series in the future. You ought to fill up that engine full of diesel now to start loosening stuff up.

It’s interesting to point out that the interior was installed with asbestos as a head proofing material, as well as being used as a shock absorber for the crew members

There's one of these in good condition in the Tank Museum in Bovington, England. Unfortunately its hull is sealed because the Japanese lined it with the then miracle heat resistant insulation material Asbestos! So it would need to be removed in a sealed environment by guys in hazmat suits I assume, before it can be fully restored to running order. There was a privately owned one at Tankfest '22 though, and it looked quite cute running around with the Shermans, Comets, T-72s etc. The type was already outclassed by the Soviet stuff in the 1939 in the Russo-Japanese war.

im almost more excited about this than the tiger, certainly more to start with.

I didn't realize they had this museum when I was last in Cairns, would really have liked to visit it. Maybe next time.

A very nice video about a very interesting new project of the workshop in the Armor Museum. I'm looking forward to it and the new episodes. 👍 鎧博物館のワークショップの非常に興味深い新しいプロジェクトについての非常に素晴らしいビデオ。 私はそれと新しいエピソードを楽しみにしています。 👍

Thank you for showing the interior! There are very few interior shots of this tank available.

How cute, it reminds me of my lawnmower, almost as fierce too!

There's a nicely painted Type 95 at the Army Museum in Honolulu right at Waikiki Beach.

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Interesting to learn about Japanese armor. They seem to be so different from anyone else.

Interesting.

Great video. I recommend watching using the English subtitles. 🙂

I wish it could stay in it`s original state. It is much more interesting to me as it is complete as it is, the tanks life is represented while in service and after in its original state. Complete restoration is ok, to see one in running condition driving around. This one as I can tell never been painted in someones back yard. The least I would do if can get it running, weld a new floor in, some grease, and call it good. :) Thanks for the video.

I remember Mr Wedd's tank back from the 1980s, we used to clamber around inside it until he realised it was full of asbestos and we were not allowed near it again

That is correct ! The early production Ha-Go come equipped with a Type 94 37 mm gun. The late production Ha-Go come equipped with a Type 98 37 mm gun. You can distinguish between the early and late production by looking at the lenght of the fender, short fender is early production, longer fender is late production vehicle. The guns however look pretty much exactly the same but the the velocity of the Type 98 is improved, when shooting with the lastest Type 1 AP the velocity is 704 m/s.

I've studied the history of this tank and one same other, since both being captured after becoming bogged at the same location, and brought back to Australia at the same time. The other ended up at John Belfield's Melbourne Tank Museum, in Narre Warren, of which I lived just down the road from, and visited regularly. Sadly the museum is no longer, with all exhibits having been sold off.

Question - What about the asbestos lining/coating that japanese tank had inside? Has it been removed from this tank? or is this tank a public hazard?

Very informative, well done! Do you guys have any Crusader tanks in sight?

cant wait to see the vids of this one being restored what a rare tank and cool

A thank with a buzzer 🤣 that is hilarious

un blindé pas très connu en France, une belle restauration en perspective.

Cant wait for the young men and their older colleagues at the museum to restore this interesting vehicle.

There are a heap of these in Pohnpei FSM.

Cool. Reminds me of my Airfix Chi-ha

This is up near Cairns right? Great place, amazing collection. Spent hours there with my dad.

The classic Ha Go, pretty sound the year it was made, but not so much when it was needed most.

4th LIKE in THE FIRST.! minute. ! More like these,, PLEASE ya Lucky Newlywed.!

Very informative video {lesson}. Didn't their tanks such as this one, have asbestos lining the inside of the crew spaces? Just curious. I heard that somewhere else. Thanks for the view. Regards, Bert

“You know, the last time I was this close to a Japanese machine, it was shooting at me.” -Red Forman

nice japan tank and military museum

I'm surprised any WWII tank would bother to use anything less than 1/2" armor anywhere.