Type 2 Ho-I

Type 2 Ho-I
Type 2 Ho-I gun tank
Type	Infantry support tank
Place of origin	Empire of Japan
Service history
Used by	Imperial Japanese Army
Production history
Produced	1944
No. built	31[1]
Specifications
Mass	16.1 tons
Length	5.73 m (18 ft 10 in)
Width	2.33 m (7 ft 8 in)
Height	2.58 m (8 ft 6 in)
Crew	5
Armor	12–50 mm
Main armament	75 mm Type 99 Gun
Secondary armament	1 x 7.7 mm Type 97 machine gun
Engine	Mitsubishi Type 100 air cooled V-12 diesel 240 hp (179 kW)
Power/weight	14.9 hp/tonne
Suspension	Bell crank
Operational range	100 km
Maximum speed	44 km/h (27 mph)

The Type 2 Gun tank Ho-I (二式砲戦車 ホイ, Ni-shiki hōsensha Ho-I) was a derivative of the Type 97 Chi-Ha medium tanks of the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II. Similar in concept to the early variants of the German Panzer IV, it was designed as a self-propelled howitzer to provide the close-in fire support for standard Japanese medium tanks with additional firepower against enemy anti-tank fortifications.^[2]