Type 89
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Type 89 may refer to:
- Type 89 (Tank Destroyer)Type 89 (Tank Destroyer)The Type 89 tank destroyer is a Chinese armored vehicle that entered service in 1988. Armed with a 120 millimeter smoothbore gun, it was intended to combat newer generations of Western and Russian main battle tanks that were equipped with composite armor and 120 and 125 millimeter caliber guns...
, a Chinese tank destroyer - Type 89 Chi-Ro, a Japanese World War II medium tank
- Type 89 Grenade DischargerType 89 Grenade DischargerThe , inaccurately known as a knee mortar by Allied forces, is a Japanese grenade launcher or light mortar that was widely used in the Pacific during the Second World War.-Background:...
, a Japanese World War II grenade discharger - Type 89 machine gunType 89 machine gunType 89 refers to two families of unrelated Imperial Japanese Army aircraft machine guns. The first family is the recoil-operated Vickers gun. The Type 89 FIXED gun was a license-built Vickers E class gun chambered for the Type 89 cartridge . It was used in synchronized applications in fighter...
, a Japanese World War II machine gun - Howa Type 89Howa Type 89The , referred to as the , is a Japanese assault rifle used by the Japan Self-Defense Forces, the Japan Coast Guard's Special Security Team units, and the Special Assault Team. It was never exported outside of Japan due to its strict anti-hardware export laws...
, an assault rifle - Norinco Type 89 IFVNorinco Type 89 IFVThe Norinco Type 89 tracked armoured fighting vehicle is a Chinese armoured personnel carrier. It was developed from the earlier export market Type 85 AFV vehicle. It entered service in the late 1990s and was first shown publicly in 1999. There are approximately 1,000 in service...
, a Chinese infantry fighting vehicle - Mitsubishi Type 89 IFVMitsubishi Type 89 IFVThe is a Japanese infantry fighting vehicle that entered service with the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force in 1989. The vehicle was adopted at a low rate with 58 vehicles in service , with a total of 70 produced by 2005...
, a Japanese infantry fighting vehicle - Type 089 "Shi Lang"-class aircraft carrier, based on the Admiral-Kuznetsov—class VaryagSoviet aircraft carrier VaryagVaryag was to be an Admiral Kuznetsov class multirole aircraft carrier of the Soviet Union. She was known as Riga when her keel was laid down at Shipyard 444 in Nikolayev December 6, 1985. Design of the carrier was undertaken by the Nevskoye Planning and Design Bureau...
, see Future Chinese aircraft carrierFuture Chinese aircraft carrierSince the 1970s, the People's Liberation Army Navy has expressed interest in operating an aircraft carrier as part of its blue water aspirations, and press reports have frequently quoted senior Chinese military officials as expressing an intention to build aircraft carriers...