page_title: List of Type 97 Chi-Ha variants
section_title: Other variants
hierarchical_section_title: List of Type 97 Chi-Ha variants / Other variants
caption_attribution_description: English: Side view of Type 97 GS tank fitted with rocket launchers
context_page_description: This is a list of vehicles developed from the Japanese Type 97 Chi-Ha medium tank.
context_section_description: Se-Ri
  Armoured recovery vehicle on a Type 97 chassis with a collapsible crane powered by a Type 100 240 hp diesel engine. The winch was located over the rear deck of the engine compartment. The Se-Ri also had "external stowage ranks" on each side of the hull. A machine gun turret replaced the main gun turret used on the Type 97 tank. Introduced in 1939, three were produced.
  Type 97 Chi-Yu "Mine flail tank"
  Type 97 Chi-Ha fitted with 2 revolving drums carrying rows of chains for clearing a mine-field. The prototype copied the design of the British mine flail tanks.
  Type 97 "Mine Clearing Tank GS"
  Type 97 Chi-Ha fitted with rocket launchers. First produced in 1943. A rocket would be launched with detonating cords affixed from its engine deck. The tank also had a rocket launcher at the rear MG position on the turret. It launched a Bangalore torpedo affixed to a rocket.
  Ho-K
  An armoured lumberjack vehicle on a Type 97 chassis and a steel prow mounted for creating paths through forests. Used in Manchuria to aid the fight against the Soviet Union. One group was sent to New Guinea for use in the construction of an airfield there.
  "Lumber Sweeper" Basso-Ki
  A lumberjack vehicle on a Type 97 chassis. It was used to remove severed trees and stumps generated by the work of the Ho-K.
  Type 97 Shi-Ki
  Command tank on a Type 97 chassis. It had a machine gun in the turret and a 37 mm gun on the hull. Recognized by its different sized turret with the rail-antenna, it had long-range communications and superior optics. "Mainly" used at the tank training schools.
  Type 97 Ka-So
  Command tank built to replace the older Type 97 Shi-Ki. It was based on the Type 1 Chi-He and had additional radios inside its turret. A wood dummy main gun was placed in the turret.
  Type T-G "bridge layer"
  Type 97 with the turret removed with rollers which support the "bridging span carrier" over the top of the chassis.
caption: Type 97 Mine Clearing Tank GS fitted with rocket launchers
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