Japanese develop a 44 ton battle tank
By (FINN) Frontier India News Network | March 21st, 2008 | Category: Defence Research and Development | No Comments »
Japanese Government Technology Research completed the development of a prototype of a new Type 10 tank. The new tank dubbed TK-X is lighter at 44 tons. The tank has an estimated cost of 700 million Japanese Yen.

It has Modular composite armour, side armor and Anti RPG modular composite armour for turret. It also has an active Suspension and continuously Variable Transmission. It features C4ISR, All 360°CITV and All 360°TV camera.
Tank Characteristics
Crew: 3
gross weight: about 44 t
Length: approximately 9.4 m
Width: about 3.2 m
Height: about 2.3 m