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Tuesday, September 09, 2014 - 04:37 AM UTC
It floats, it belongs to a navy, so I'm reporting it here (sorry, Armorama). A late version of the Imperial Japanese Navy's amphibious tank.
The “Ka Mi” was the first amphibious tank used by the IJN and it was based on the Type 95 “Ha-Go”light tank. It was designed for Japanese landing forces performing amphibious invasions of Pacific islands and regular port facilities. Production of the Type 2 commenced in 1942 and a total of 184 amphibious tanks were made, although the design was too late to participate in Japan’s island-hopping campaign. When used in water, large pontoons were attached to the glacis plate and rear deck to give it a top speed of 10km/h in water. These pontoons could be shed as soon as the vehicle reached land.

This listed as item No. DRR 60609 and is to be available in October of this year. No information on price yet.
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