{"product_id":"type-89-japanese-medium-tank-kou-gasoline-hybrid-production","title":"Type 89 Japanese Medium Tank. KOU Gasoline Hybrid - Production","description":"\u003cp\u003eIBG 1\/72\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cb\u003eType 89 medium tank \u003ci\u003eI-Go\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e (\u003cspan title=\"Japanese-language text\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"ja\"\u003e八九式中戦車　イ号\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cspan title=\"Hepburn transliteration\"\u003e\u003ci lang=\"ja-Latn\"\u003eHachikyū-shiki chū-sensha I-gō\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e) is a \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Medium_tank\" title=\"Medium tank\"\u003emedium tank\u003c\/a\u003e used by the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Imperial_Japanese_Army\" title=\"Imperial Japanese Army\"\u003eImperial Japanese Army\u003c\/a\u003e from 1932 to 1942 in combat operations of the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Second_Sino-Japanese_War\" title=\"Second Sino-Japanese War\"\u003eSecond Sino-Japanese War\u003c\/a\u003e, at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battles_of_Khalkhin_Gol\" title=\"Battles of Khalkhin Gol\"\u003eKhalkhin Gol\u003c\/a\u003e against the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soviet_Union\" title=\"Soviet Union\"\u003eSoviet Union\u003c\/a\u003e, and in the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Second_World_War\" class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Second World War\"\u003eSecond World War\u003c\/a\u003e. The Type 89B model was the world's first mass-produced \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diesel_engine\" title=\"Diesel engine\"\u003ediesel engine\u003c\/a\u003e tank. The tank was armed with a short-barrel 57 mm cannon for knocking out \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pillbox_(military)\" title=\"Pillbox (military)\"\u003epillboxes\u003c\/a\u003e and masonry fortifications, and proved effective in campaigns in \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manchuria\" title=\"Manchuria\"\u003eManchuria\u003c\/a\u003e and China, as the Chinese \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Revolutionary_Army\" title=\"National Revolutionary Army\"\u003eNational Revolutionary Army\u003c\/a\u003e had only three tank battalions to oppose them, which consisted primarily of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vickers\" title=\"Vickers\"\u003eVickers\u003c\/a\u003e export models, German \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Panzer_I\" title=\"Panzer I\"\u003ePanzer Is\u003c\/a\u003e, and Italian \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/L3\/33\" title=\"L3\/33\"\u003eCV33\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tankettes\" class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Tankettes\"\u003etankettes\u003c\/a\u003e. The Type 89 was a 1920s design medium tank, built to support the \u003cbr\u003einfantry, and thus lacked the armor or armament of 1940s generation \u003cbr\u003eAllied armor; it was regarded as obsolete by the time of the 1939 \u003cbr\u003ebattles of Khalkhin Gol, against the Soviet Union.\u003cfont size=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/font\u003e The code designation \"I-Go\" comes from the \u003ci\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Katakana\" title=\"Katakana\"\u003ekatakana\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e letter [イ] for \"first\" and the \u003ci\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kanji\" title=\"Kanji\"\u003ekanji\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e [号] for \"number\". The designation is also transliterated \u003cb\u003eChi-Ro\u003c\/b\u003e and sometimes \"Yi-Go\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eType 89A I-Go Kō\u003c\/b\u003e (\u003cspan title=\"Japanese-language text\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"ja\"\u003e八九式中戦車(甲型)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e) - The initial production model had a water-cooled Daimler-type 100 hp (75 kW) engine (\u003cspan title=\"Japanese-language text\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"ja\"\u003eダ式 一〇〇馬力 発動機\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cspan title=\"Hepburn transliteration\"\u003e\u003ci lang=\"ja-Latn\"\u003eda-shiki hyaku-bariki hatsudōki\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"margin-left:.09em\"\u003e)\u003c\/span\u003e 6-cylinder gasoline engine and mounted a \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Machine_gun\" title=\"Machine gun\"\u003emachine gun\u003c\/a\u003e on the right side of the hull. This design could attain only 15.5 km\/h, and was also limited by the severe winter climate in \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Northern_and_southern_China\" title=\"Northern and southern China\"\u003enorthern China\u003c\/a\u003e. A total of 113 tanks were produced.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eType 89B I-Go Otsu\u003c\/b\u003e (\u003cspan title=\"Japanese-language text\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"ja\"\u003e八九式中戦車(乙型)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e) - The \u003ci\u003eKo\u003c\/i\u003e was superseded in production from 1934 by the model \u003ci\u003eOtsu\u003c\/i\u003e with an air-cooled Mitsubishi A6120VD 120 hp (89 kW) \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diesel_engine\" title=\"Diesel engine\"\u003ediesel\u003c\/a\u003e engine. The improved model had a new \"asymmetric shaped\" \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gun_turret\" title=\"Gun turret\"\u003egun turret\u003c\/a\u003e complete with a \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cupola\" title=\"Cupola\"\u003ecupola\u003c\/a\u003e for the commander, and with the machine gun relocated to the left side of the hull. The multiple armor plates of the front hull were replaced by a single \u003cbr\u003eshallow-sloped frontal armor plate which provided more protection for \u003cbr\u003ethe driver. However, the major difference between the versions was the \u003cbr\u003eMitsubishi air-cooled 6-cylinder diesel engine, which had several \u003cbr\u003eadvantages: lower vulnerability to fire than a gasoline engine, better \u003cbr\u003efuel economy, and greater torque at lower revolutions. A diesel engine \u003cbr\u003ewas also preferred by the Japanese Army because more \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diesel_fuel\" title=\"Diesel fuel\"\u003ediesel fuel\u003c\/a\u003e than gasoline could be produced per barrel of oil. A total of 291 \u003ci\u003eOtsu\u003c\/i\u003e tanks were produced. The Type 89B Otsu version was the first mass-produced tank with a diesel engine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdl\u003e\u003cdd\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg 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