Re: [OT] Sea Leopard

>>Tremble in fear, Chi-ha, tremble in fear...
>
>Ummm.... is this an Aussie thing, or am I going to get ridiculed by
everyone

>for not getting the reference?

The type 97 (ie vintage 1937) Chi-Ha and the improved new turret version
Shinhoto

 Chi-Ha was the best tank in widescale production the Japanese had in
WW2. On
a 
good day, it was nearly as good as an M3 Stuart, which is to say, not
very.

See 
http://www.wlhoward.com/japan.htm
or
http://users.swing.be/tanks/edito/japonais.htm
for japanese tanks.

Chi Ha
http://users.swing.be/tanks/engins2/244.html

Shinhoto ie "New Turret" Chi Ha
http://users.swing.be/tanks/engins2/245.html

Maximum armour: 25mm. 

Compare with Sentinel:
http://www.overkill82.freeserve.co.uk/Sentinel.html
or
http://users.swing.be/tanks/engins2/576.html

Maximum armour: listed as 65mm (though rather more from my own
examination of
the one in the Australian War Memorial)

According to http://salts.britwar.co.uk/salt7.htm
A UK 2 lb would go through 40mm at any range it could hit at.
A 17lb would go through rather more - at least 100mm, often twice that.
" many sources credit the 17-pdr firing APDS with 231mm penetration at
1000
yards
 on armour sloped at 30 deg, but it seems tolerably obvious that this
figure
really 
refers to armour at 0 deg. "

The Chi-Ha's gun would penetrate 10mm with luck ( 57mm gun not designed
for
penetrating armour)
, and the Shinhoto's 47mm gun a maximum of 55 mm at zero range.