Key facts
- Type
- Main battle tank
- Place of origin
- Japan
- Designer
- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries / Japan Ministry of Defense Technology Research and Development Institute
- Manufacturer
- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
- Unit cost
- JPY¥800 Million (2009)
- Produced
- 1990–2009
- Mass
- 50.2 tonnes
- Length
- 9.76 m
- Width
- 3.43 m
- Height
- 2.34 m
- Armor
- Modular ceramic composite armour
- Main armament
- Rheinmetall 120mm L/44 smoothbore gun with automatic loader
- Secondary armament
- M2HB 12.7 mm machine gun, Type 74 7.62 mm machine gun
- Engine
- Mitsubishi 10ZG32WT 10-cylinder, two-stroke cycle, 1,500 hp/2,400 rpm diesel 21.5 litre
- Power weight
- 30 hp/tonne
- Transmission
- Mitsubishi MT1500 automatic transmission (4 forward gears, 2 reverse gears )
- Suspension
- hydropneumatic
- Operational range
- 350 km
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Encyclopedic overview
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The Type 90 tank (90式戦車, Kyū-maru-shiki-sensha) is a main battle tank (MBT) of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF). It was designed and built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries as a replacement for the Type 61 and to supplement the then current fleet of Type 74 tanks, and entered service in 1990.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Type 90 Tank” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.