This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Type 74" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR(January 2022) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
Main battle tank
Type 74
Type 74 on the open day of a JGSDF base in Itami City, October 2005
Type
Main battle tank
Place of origin
Japan
Service history
In service
1975–2024
Production history
Designer
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Designed
1962
Manufacturer
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Unit cost
350-400 Million Yen (~3.2 - 3.6 Million USD)
Produced
1975–1988
No. built
873
Specifications
Mass
38 tonnes (42 short tons; 37 long tons)
Length
9.41 m (30 ft 10 in)
Width
3.18 m (10 ft 5 in)
Height
2.25 m (7 ft 5 in)
Crew
4
Armor
189–195 mm (7.4–7.7 in)[citation needed]
Main armament
M68[i] 105mm L/51 rifled gun 55 rounds
Secondary armament
M2HB 12.7 mm machine gun 660 rounds Type 74 7.62 mm machine gun 4,500 rounds
Engine
Mitsubishi 10ZF Model 21, 10 cylinders diesel, 21.5 L 750 hp (560 kW)
Power/weight
19 hp/tonne
Suspension
hydropneumatic
Operational range
300 km (190 mi)
Maximum speed
53 km/h (33 mph)
The Type 74 (74式戦車, nana-yon-shiki-sensha) is a main battle tank (MBT) of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF). It was built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries as a supplement to the earlier Type 61. It was based on the best features of a number of contemporary designs, placing it in the same class as the US M60 Patton or German Leopard 1. Like these designs, it mounts the M68 rifled 105 mm gun. The design did not enter widespread use until 1980, by which point other Western forces had introduced more capable designs.
It was followed by the heavier Type 90. Both the Type 74 and Type 90 are supplemented and will be eventually replaced by the new-generation Type 10 tank.
Cite error: There are <ref group=lower-roman> tags or {{efn-lr}} templates on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=lower-roman}} template or {{notelist-lr}} template (see the help page).
The Type74 (74式戦車, nana-yon-shiki-sensha) is a main battle tank (MBT) of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF). It was built by Mitsubishi Heavy...
The Type 72Z tank (also known as the T-72Z and the Safir-74, and the Al-Zubair I in Sudan) is a highly modernized version of the Type 59 and T-54/T-55...
74 may refer to: 74 (number) one of the years 74 BC, AD 74, 1974, 2074 The 74, an American nonprofit news website Seventy-four (ship), a type of two-decked...
high priority in designing the Type 10. A Ministry of Defense assessment found that C4I upgrades to existing Type74 and Type 90 tanks were not feasible,...
replacement for the Type 61 and to supplement the then current fleet of Type74 tanks, and entered service in 1990. After the adoption of the Type74, the Japanese...
The Type74 (74式車載7.62mm機関銃, Nanayon-shiki Shasai Nana-ten-rokuni-miri Kikanjū) is a fixed mount variant for AFV use, including the Type74, Type 90 and...
The Short Admiralty Type74 was a single-engined biplane tractor seaplane with non-folding wings, which saw service with the Royal Naval Air Service during...
more sophisticated fire-control type system and an upgrading of the main armament to increase its velocity. Stridsvagn 74 was used in the Swedish Army armoured...
Coaxially mounted to the cannon is a Type74 7.62 millimeter caliber machine gun. The turret also mounts a single Type 79 Jyu-MAT missile on each side of...
Type74, the TK-X MBT began between 1976 and 1977, which became the Type 90 tank. The Type 90 was to have replaced the Type74 outright as the Type 74...
PLA adopted the Type74 flamethrower, a copy of the Soviet LPO-50. It was later used in the Sino-Vietnamese War. LPO-50 and Type74 flamethrowers were...
variants comprise the Lotus Types 46, 47, 54, 65 and 74, and were produced between 1966 and 1975. The name was later revived in the Type 121 Europa S, a sports...
last Vulcan flying was a Type74 with Imperial Airways. It crashed in July 1928 while on a test flight from Croydon Airport. Type 61 - first production version...
The Type 69 (Chinese: 69式; pinyin: Liùjiǔ shì) and Type 79 (Chinese: 79式; pinyin: Qījiǔ shì) are Chinese first generation main battle tanks. Both were...
number of Type 59 tanks and Safir 74 conversions in service as of 2023 Myanmar − At least 25 Type-59D in service as of 2023. North Korea − ~175 Type 59s delivered...
(1968–74), Hannover, West Germany (1974–75), Emden, West Germany (1975–78), Puebla, Mexico (1970–80), and Jakarta, Indonesia (1972–80), the Type 181 shared...
The Type 16 Maneuver Combat Vehicle (16式機動戦闘車, Hitoroku shiki kidō sentōsha) is a wheeled armored fighting vehicle of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force...
74 Geminorum (f Geminorum) is a K-type giant star in the constellation Gemini. It is located about 640 light-years from Earth based on its Gaia DR3 parallax...
the same "Type74" designation as the Lotus Europa Twin-Cam and was commonly called the `Texaco Star'. The Formula 3 engines in the two Type74 Texaco Stars...
Global Information
