The tank Type 90 is a Armored vehicle Japanese in service in the Japanese Army, the jgsdf ( japan ground self-service defense forces ). This tank is regarded as intermediary between the Char Leclerc (France) and the Char M1 Abrams (the United States).

Characteristics

The tank Type 90 is produced by Japanese industrialists. Mitsubishi is the project superintendent and the manufacturer of the case, the diesel engine, the train of bearing and the automatic loading of the ammunition. NEC, Fujitsu, Nikon and Fuji collaborates for industrial development programmes called PMDT (equivalent of our military Loi of programming).

The tank Type 90 is close to Lerclerc. Thus, Type 90 was described as Leclerc or Challenger 2 or Asian Léopard .

Three men of crew, an automatic loading and oil and air suspensions are some of the common points with the tanks Leclerc, Challenger 2 and Leopard.

Type 90 presents all the functions of a tank known as of new generation: gun of 120 mm (under license Rheinmetal), a Hunter-Killer mode of engagement of the targets, a power ratio/weight thanks to a Diesel Mitsubishi of 1 500 ch, an automatic box, automatic loading for the ammunition, fire control system digitized, shielding of the composite type integral of the ceramics manufactured by Kyoto Ceramic Company.

The tank has moreover two original functions: an automatic device of alignment and a mixed, oil and air suspension on the extreme rollers and torsion bars in the medium, make it possible to vary the static angle of pitching to increase the clearance of the gun.

The frame of Type 90 was declined in the tanks of breakdown service (Standard 90 ARV) and tank layer of bridge (Standard 91 AVLB).

• the Type 90 ARV, conveys maintenance and breakdown service, equipped with a crane and a blade bulldozer being in front of the tank,
• the Type 91 AVLB: convey based on the frame of Type 90, but equipped with a bridge chisel.

This tank would be most expensive of the world: approximately 12.000.000 euros .

Armament

This tank is equipped with:

• a Canon 120 mm,
• one 1 coaxial Machine-gun of 7,62 mm concurrently to left trap door of tank on the turret,
• a anti-aircraft Machine-gun of 12,7 mm, this one on the line.

Float

Japan thus has a fleet of 900 ready tanks has to intervene, surroundings twice as much as the France or the England. This fleet consists today of tanks Type 74 and Type 90.

Since 2000, the jgsdf (forces of Japanese self-defense) has 224 tanks Type 90.

Successor

The successor of the Type 90, which will replace Type 74 and Type 90 still in service, is in preparation at the organization of the military research programs.

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