![]() ![]() By 1991 the vehicle passed field testing and orders for the first MBT built with all Japanese parts, with the exception of the main gun, were made and first production models were completed in 1992, by the Japanese company Mitsubishi Heavy Industries under the designation Type 90 for the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force. Further prototypes mounted the Rheinmetall L44. The first prototypes were completed in 1982, first sporting a Japanese designed/manufactured main gun. Japanese Type 90 Main Battle Tank Developmentĭevelopment to replace the Type 74 with an indigenes design that could defeat the Russian T-72, started in the mid 70’s under the designation STC, which was changed to TK-X by the Technical Research Headquarters of the Japanese Self-Defence Force. ![]() It wasn’t until the mid 50’s that Japan started tank development with the Type 61 (heavily influenced by US tank design) and then the Type 74 in the late 60’s. Japanese tank development & production leading up to and during World War 2 did not yield any great successes or offer the same threat to the Allied tanks as the other Axis forces did. ![]()
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