List of armoured fighting vehicles used by the Imperial Japanese Army in the Second Sino-Japanese War

This is a list of armour used by the Imperial Japanese Army in the Second Sino-Japanese War.

The present list also includes other military armoured vehicles in use at the time (armoured personnel carriers, armoured cars, armoured trains, etc.).

Renault FT
Renault NC27
Type 89 I-Go medium tanks (Type 89A I-Go Kō and Type 89B I-Go Otsu)^[1]
Type 92 heavy armoured car Jyu-Sokosha - tankette^[2]
Type 94 tankette^[3]
Type 97 Te-Ke tankette^[4]
Type 95 Ha-Go light tank^[5]
Type 97 Chi-Ha medium tank^[6]
Type 97 ShinHōtō Chi-Ha medium tank^[7]
Sōkō Sagyō Ki ("SS-Ki") armored engineer vehicles^[8]
Panzer I - German tank, one captured from Chinese forces
Vickers Crossley armoured car^[9]
Wolseley armoured car^[10]
Chiyoda armored car Type 92.^[11]
Sumida M.2593 Type 91 armored railroad car So-Mo^[12]
Type 93 armoured car a/k/a Type 2593 Hokoku and Type 93 Kokusanor^[13]
Type 95 So-Ki armored railroad car^[14]
20 mm AA machine cannon carrier truck^[15]
Type 1 Ho-Ki armored personnel carrier^[16]
Improvised Armoured Train^[17]
Special Armoured Train^[18]
Type 94 Armoured Train^[19]
Type 95 crane vehicle Ri-Ki^[20]
Armored recovery vehicle Se-Ri^[21]
Type 100 Te-Re observation vehicle^[22]
Type 94 disinfecting vehicle^[23]
Type 94 gas scattering vehicle^[23]

Notes

^ Zaloga 2007, pp. 4–6.
^ Zaloga 2007, pp. 6, 7, 10.
^ Zaloga 2007, pp. 7–10.
^ Zaloga 2007, pp. 10, 13.
^ Zaloga 2007, pp. 3, 9, 10–13.
^ Zaloga 2007, pp. 11, 13, 14.
^ Zaloga 2007, pp. 13, 14.
^ Taki’s Imperial Japanese Army page: Armored Engineer Vehicle "SS"
^ Hara 1973, p. 2.
^ Taki's Imperial Japanese Army: Wolseley Armored Car
^ Taki’s Imperial Japanese Army: "Chiyoda Armoured Car"
^ Tomczyk 2002, pp. 80, 83.
^ Tomczyk 2002, pp. 79, 80, 87.
^ Taki’s Imperial Japanese Army: Type 95 Armored Railroad Car "So-Ki"
^ Taki’s Imperial Japanese Army: AA Machine Cannon Carrier
^ Taki's Imperial Japanese Army: Type 1 APC "Ho-Ki"
^ Taki's Imperial Japanese Army page: Improvised Armored Train
^ Taki's Imperial Japanese Army page: Special Armored Train
^ Taki's Imperial Japanese Army page: Type 94 Armored Train
^ Taki’s Imperial Japanese Army: Type 95 Crane Vehicle "Ri-Ki"
^ Tomczyk 2003, p. 76.
^ Taki's Imperial Japanese Army: Type 100 Observation Vehicle "Te-Re"
^ ^a ^b Taki’s Imperial Japanese Army Page: Type 94 Disinfecting Vehicle and Type 94 Gas Scattering Vehicle

References

Hara, Tomio (1973). Japanese Combat Cars, Light Tanks, and Tankettes. AFV Weapons Profile No. 54. Profile Publications Limited.
Tomczyk, Andrzej (2002). Japanese Armor Vol. 1. AJ Press. ISBN 83-7237-097-4.
Tomczyk, Andrzej (2003). Japanese Armor Vol. 3. AJ Press. ISBN 978-8372371287.
Zaloga, Steven J. (2007). Japanese Tanks 1939–45. Osprey. ISBN 978-1-8460-3091-8.