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Originally Posted by Panzerklein
Because their enemies at the start of war don't have strong armies either. China, Indochina France, South East Asia (Siam quickly become puppet of Japan to avoid being invaded) v.v... have no T-34, M4, Tiger or 203mm B4 v.v... equal tanks, field guns for land army, thus Japan don't need developed stronger armoury for land army.
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I think we went over this, but my main focus was what
happened after the Japanese army encountered American ground forces. Besides the lack of armor, which one can argue they were unnecessary in jungle warfare, the IJA never even bothered improving upon existing equipment. No semi-autos, no submachine guns, no general-purpose machineguns, all of these essentials the IJA never bothered with. That is, despite the fact that their Chinese opponents were already employing these weapons and proved to be very effective in a number of situations.
As I mentioned earlier, one has to wonder about the psyche of Japanese military developers. Aircraft sight for rifles, bayonets for machine guns, and oh this is golden, pistols that chambered 8mm...
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Originally Posted by Panzerklein
Other reason most of their industry capacity is thrown to air and naval force to against US Naval Force
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And even their aircraft development remained static. Nothing ever replaced the A6M, not the Shinden, Raiden, Shoki... etc. Whereas the FW-190 was mass produced and proved to be just as good as any Allied propellers.
- Tak