Type 10 (10式戦車, Hitomaru-shiki sensha) is a next generation main battle tank of JSDF produced by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries for the Japan Ground Self Defense Force. It is the latest Main Battle Tank currently used to fight in the New World.
Description[]
While on Earth, the Type 10 was made to replace the Type-90 Main Battle Tank, and was designed to accommodate upgrades that the Type-74 and Type-90 can't accommodate. Also, the primary objective of the development of the Type-10 is that it can be deployed anywhere in Japan. Size and weight reductions have made Type 10 now six metric tonnes lighter than Type 90, weighing only 44 tonnes. 84% of Japan's 17920 bridges are passable for the Type 10, compared to only 65% of passability of Type 90 and 40% of mainstream western main battle tanks.
For more detail, see: Type 10
Specification[]
- Type: Main Battle Tank
- Weight: 40 tonnes
- Length: 9.485 meters
- Width: 3.24 meters
- Crew: 3
- Armor: Nano-crystal steel, modular ceramic composite armor, light-weight upper armor.
- Armaments:
- Main Weapons: 120 mm Smoothbore gun with Automatic Loaders
- Secondary Weapons: 12,7 mm Machine gun, and 7,62 mm Machine gun
- Engine: 4-stroke V8 Diesel Engine, 1200 hp/2300 rpm
- Transmissions: Automatic transmissions (4 forward gears, 2 reverse gears)
- Power: 30 hp/Tonne
- Suspension: Hybrid, Hydropneumatic and Torsion bar suspension
- Speed: 70 km/h
- Acceleration: 0-200 meters in 20 second
Service History[]
The first deployment of the Type-10 in the New World is in the Topa Kingdom wherein it fought and killed the Demon Lord Nosgorath as part of Operation Momotarou.
It showed again its superiority against its enemies in the Gra Valkas Invasion of Mu when it destroyed more than half of the tanks of the GVE's 4th Armored Division during the Ambush at the Hollow Mountains. The GVE tanks were no match against the HEAT and SABOT rounds of the Type-10 MBT. Additionally, on the Battle of Hollow Mountains, Type 10 along with Type 90 are closing Gra Valkas 4th Armored Division escape route.
Trivia[]
- Its main gun is designed and made in Japan by Japan Steel Works, compared to the Type-90 whose gun is the German designed Rhienmetall Rh-120 L/44.
- Aside from the standard NATO HEAT and SABOT rounds, it can also fire a special SABOT round specifically designed for the Type-10