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The Type 3 medium tank was a 20-ton medium tank equipped with a 75mm gun and developed by the Imperial Japanese Army to counter the US M4 Sherman medium tank. It was an uprated version of the Type 1 medium tank.

Mass production began in October 1944, and 166 were completed by the end of the war in August of the following year. They were only deployed in various parts of Kyushu and Kanto in preparation for the battle for the Japanese mainland, and were not used in actual combat.

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三式中戦車は米軍のM4シャーマン中戦車に対抗すべく開発された大日本帝国陸軍が開発した38口径75mm砲を搭載した20トンクラスの中戦車です。一式中戦車の武装強化版にあたります。

1944年10月に量産が開始され翌年8月の大戦終結まで166量が完成、日本本土決戦に向け九州・関東の各地に配備されるに留まり、実戦には投入されませんでした。