In this next episode of the proposed Japanese tank tech tree, we look at the first 2 tiers of the Japanese medium tanks<br /><br />Japanese tanks in this episode:<br />Type 1 Chi-He (Added in Update 1.65 "Way of the Samurai")<br />Type 2 Ho-I (Added in Update 1.65 "Way of the Samurai")<br />Type 89 I-Go (Added in Update 1.65 "Way of the Samurai")<br />Type 97 Chi-Ha (Added in Update 1.65 "Way of the Samurai")<br />Type 97 Shinhoto Chi-Ha (Added in Update 1.65 "Way of the Samurai")<br /><br />Proposed Japanese Tank Tech Tree<br />Japanese Light Tanks: https://youtu.be/a4La6cIj3U8<br />Japanese Medium Tanks (Part 1): https://youtu.be/6ZT_JiN0lFY<br />Japanese Medium Tanks (Part 2): https://youtu.be/EQn_A3aWh8I<br />Japanese Heavy Tanks: https://youtu.be/QhMx05tIZC4<br />Japanese Amphibious Tanks: https://youtu.be/4_paUh-5U30<br />Japanese Tank Destroyers & Assault Guns: https://youtu.be/w0Xxw9F-xyk<br />Japanese SPAA: https://youtu.be/Oo0tpdRt9_k<br />Japanese Premium Tanks: https://youtu.be/OxPzgNZo1wI<br /><br />Link to War Thunder Japanese ground forces forum:<br />http://forum.warthunder.com/index.php?/forum/191-japan/<br /><br />Japan ground forces forum tech tree: <br />http://forum.warthunder.com/index.php?/topic/200268-mai-waffentrager-japanese-ground-forces-tech-tree/<br /><br />Information and picture citations/sources:<br />WWII: The Directory of Weapons<br />Weapons of World War II<br />New Vanguard. Japanese tanks: 1939-45<br />http://www3.plala.or.jp/takihome/<br />http://www.weaponsofwwii.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3130<br />http://www.ww2technik.de/sites/panzer/bewaffnung%20main.htm#kanone<br />http://forum.wotlabs.net/index.php?/topic/287-penetration-data-and-expectation-of-tank-guns-used-in-service-or-tested/<br />http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/topic/51183-japanese-tank-tree-guns-discussion/page__st__300#topmost<br />http://forum.warthunder.com/index.php?/topic/190952-japanese-tank-guns-and-statistics/#entry3656677<br /><br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_89_I-Go<br /><br />http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AType_89_Japanese_tank.jpg<br />By Japan newspaper Asahi Shimbun 朝日新聞 [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons<br />This photographic image was published before December 31st 1956, or photographed before 1946, under the jurisdiction of the Government of Japan. Thus this photographic image is considered to be public domain according to article 23 of old copyright law of Japan (English translation) and article 2 of supplemental provision of copyright law of Japan.<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_97_Chi-Ha<br /><br />http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_97_Chi-Ha<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_2_Ho-I<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_97_ShinHoTo_Chi-Ha<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_1_Chi-He<br /><br />http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AChi-Nu_depot.jpg<br />By US soldier [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons<br />One of the tank depots, created in Japan after the end of WWII, with Type 3 Chi-Nu and Type 97 Shinhoto Chi-Ha on the foreground, Type 1 Chi-He, Type 97 Chi-Ha, Type III Ho-Ni III and other unidentified vehicles at background<br /><br />http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Isshikityusensya.jpg<br />This photographic image was
