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Imperial Japanese Army Medium Tank Type 89 I-Go Kou
八九式中戦車 イ号 甲型
World War Two
Imperial Japanese Army (IJA)
1920s design medium tank, for infantry support
armed with a short-barrel 57 mm cannon
combat operations of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1932~1942)
Type 89A I-Go Kō (八九式中戦車 甲型 - The initial production model had a water-cooled Daimler-type 100 hp (75 kW) engine (ダ式 一〇〇馬力 発動機) 6-cylinder gasoline engine and mounted a machine gun on the right side of the hull. Only 15.5 km/h. 113 were built
Type 89B I-Go Otsu (八九式中戦車 乙型 - with an air-cooled Mitsubishi A6120VD 120 hp (89 kW) diesel engine (first mass-produced tank with a diesel engine). A new "asymmetric shaped" gun turret complete with a cupola for the commander, and with the machine gun relocated to the left side of the hull. 291 were built.