172K views · 3.4K reactions | Small tank. Big story. 殺 Meet the Imperial Japanese Army’s Type 94 tankette - a small, lightly armoured machine that was cramped, exposed, and never meant for frontline combat… yet ended up seeing plenty of it. So how did this uncomfortable little vehicle wind up in the Australian War Memorial’s collection? Watch to find out. Accession number: REL/16287 | Australian War Memorial | Facebook

The Type 74 from Japan- Fourteen years to develop 😲 so essentially obsolete by the time it entered service. Some 893 were produced, and while it was due to be replaced by the more modern Type 90 with the end of the Cold War the Type 74s remained in service until at least 2006, in fact you can still see some of the modified variants still in service now. The video shows the hydropneumatic suspension in use which can be adjusted to suit the type of terrain being crossed. Operated either by the co