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Type 98 Ke-Ni
The (also known as Type 98 Chi-Ni〔) was designed to replace the Imperial Japanese Army's Type 95 Ha-Go light tank, Japan's most numerous armored fighting vehicle during World War II.
Although designed before World War II, production did not start until 1942 and only about a hundred were produced by the end of the war.
==History and development==
The Type 98 developed in 1938 was a light tank with the same weight as the earlier Type 95, but with thicker armor. The prototype of the new Type 98 tank was completed by Hino Motors〔Zaloga (Japanese Tanks) p. 18〕 in 1939, but it did not enter production at the time. This can be attributed to the adequate performance of the aging Type 95 against obsolete tanks of National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China forces.〔Zaloga (Japanese Tanks) p. 12〕
With the start of World War II, the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff quickly realized that the Type 95 design was vulnerable to .50 caliber machine gun fire and attempted to develop a light tank with the same weight as the Type 95, but with thicker armor.〔 A production contract for the Type 98 was awarded to Hino Motors and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, with a total of 104 Type 98s are known to have been built, 1 in 1941, 24 in 1942 and 79 in 1943.〔Zaloga (Japanese Tanks) p. 17〕 By the end of the war, the Imperial Navy had priority on steel for warships and aircraft construction, leaving the Imperial Japanese Army at the bottom of the list for raw material to build tanks with.〔Zaloga (Japanese Tanks) pp. 3 & 15〕
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