The JSDF was uncommonly forward-thinking when it appreciated that a traditionally high-value asset—its main battle tanks—were expensive to maintain yet unlikely to be useable in many plausible ...
It is June 12, 1944, and Japanese Imperial forces are storming northeastern India. Despite a broken wrist and other serious ...
The Japanese Ground Self Defense Force has the unusual challenge of defending an archipelago of 6,852 islands that stretches over two thousand miles. Deploying powerful Type 90 and Type 11 Main Battle ...
For all their firepower, defensive utility, and all-around menacing power on the battlefield, tanks have some debilitating weaknesses. For one thing, the maintenance and supplies required by a large ...
AUSTIN (KXAN) — The National Museum of the Pacific War, which is located in Fredericksburg, helped return a World War II-era tank to Japan following an exchange for an authentic replica of the Type 95 ...
A family in Belarus has what many tank buffs would consider the best job in the world: saving abandoned tanks and restoring them for a living. The Yakushev family has gradually turned its ...
China will stage a massive military parade next month involving tens of thousands of people in the heart of Beijing to commemorate 80 years since the end of World War 2 after Japan surrendered.