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Production history
Designed
1932
Unit cost
25,300 yen ($6,798 USD) in August 1939, excluding armament[1][2]
Produced
1935–1937
No. built
823[3]
Specifications
Mass
3.4 tonnes (3.35 long tons; 3.75 short tons) [4]
Length
3.08 m (10 ft 1 in) [4]
Width
1.62 m (5 ft 4 in) [4]
Height
1.62 m (5 ft 4 in) [4]
Crew
2 (commander, driver) [5]
Armor
8–12 mm (0.31–0.47 in) [6]
Main armament
6.5mm Type 91 machine gun [4]
Secondary armament
None
Engine
Mitsubishi Franklin air-cooled inline 4-cylinder Gasoline 32 hp (24 kW) [4]
Power/weight
9 hp/tonne (6.7 kW/tonne)
Suspension
2-wheel bogie
Operational range
200 km (120 mi) [4]
Maximum speed
40 km/h (25 mph) [4]
The Type 94 tankette (Japanese: 九四式軽装甲車, romanized: Kyūyon-shiki keisōkōsha, literally "94 type light armored car"; also known as TK, an abbreviation of Tokushu Keninsha, literally "special tractor"[7]) was a tankette used by the Imperial Japanese Army in the Second Sino-Japanese War, at Nomonhan against the Soviet Union, and in World War II. Although tankettes were often used as ammunition tractors, and general infantry support, they were designed for reconnaissance, and not for direct combat.[8] The lightweight Type 94 proved effective in China as the Chinese National Revolutionary Army had only three tank battalions to oppose them, and those tank battalions were equipped only with some British export models and Italian CV-33 tankettes.[9] As with nearly all tankettes built in the 1920s and 1930s, they had thin armor that could be penetrated by .50 caliber (12.7 mm) machine gun fire at 600 yards (550 m) range.[10]
^"兵器臨時定価、予価、表送付の件 Military catalogue of the Japanese military". National Archives of Japan. Ministry of the Army.
^Banking and Monetary Statistics, 1914-1941, Part I. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.). January 1943 [1943]. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
^Zaloga 2007, p. 10.
^ abcdefghTomczyk 2002, p. 55.
^Tomczyk 2002, p. 54.
^Tomczyk 2002, pp. 54, 55.
^Zaloga 2007, p. 7.
^Coox 1985, pp. 154, 157.
^Zaloga 2007, p. 12.
^Report on Type 92 from September 1945 issue of Intelligence Bulletin
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