Crazy Japanese armoured train with an order of literally everything: the "Kwantung Army Type 93 "Rinji Soko Ressha" Special Armoured Train. They built 3 of these!
Posted by IronWarhorses@reddit | shittytechnicals | View on Reddit | 4 comments
[the full train seen from the forward 100mm artillery wagon.]()
[The combat cars literally had one of everything. Top: 100mm howitzer, middle 150mm gun, bottom 4x MG turrets. oh and each had a shit ton of firing ports as well on each side.]()
[the armoured tender locomotive (centre)]()
[Auxiliary Tender Wagon (position 6 in the train) with retractile machine gun turrets.]()
[Command Wagon (position 5) ]()
[Generator Wagon (position 7)]()
[there were 2 of these insane 4 turreted MG wagons (position 4 and 9)]()
[Light 75mm Artillery Wagon (Position 3 and 10)]()
[and the fully armoured pilot wagons at each end of the train, which of course had MG turrets.]()
[100mm howitzer turret wagon (position 2)]()
[140mm low velocity gun wagon was at the other end of the train opposite the wagon above.]()
Legocity264@reddit
This is wonderfully insane. I'm grateful to the person who took the time to individually photograph each car.
IronWarhorses@reddit (OP)
"Geman Panzerzugs are not over engineered or long enough" was the design criteria.
crzapy@reddit
Talk about a Japanese BULLET train... amiright!
IronWarhorses@reddit (OP)
YUP. they seemed to have ignored the reason why for example the Russians and almost everybody else generally kept Flak, long range artillery trains and shorter range ones separate whenever possible.
first ammo,
SECOND why not just make TWO trains doing two different jobs.
third: the train gets much longer when you do shit like this and thus more vulnerable to attack and harder to manage in general.
also the fact they used at least three different artillery pieces here. you got four 75 mm guns which fire VERY fast, a 150mm howitzer and the fully enclosed 100mm high velocity cannon which is probably an heavy AA gun. and of course putting all that IN ONE TRAIN when the Chinese forced mostly used guerilla tactics is for obvious reasons a stupid idea.