page_title: Type 2 Ho-I
section_title: Design
hierarchical_section_title: Type 2 Ho-I / Design
caption_attribution_description: 日本語: 二式砲戦車 ホイ English: Imperial Japanese Army Type 2 gun tank Ho-I.
context_page_description: The Type 2 Gun tank Ho-I Support Tank was a derivative of the Type 97 Chi-Ha medium tanks of the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II. Similar in concept to early variant 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.
context_section_description: The 1941 prototype model, known as the Experimental Type 1 Ho-I, used the Type 97 Chi-Ha chassis. The production model utilized the chassis of the Type 1 Chi-He, which was itself a modified Type 97 Chi-Ha hull.
  The main armament of the Type 2 Ho-I was a Type 99 75 mm tank gun, and secondary armament was a single 7.7 mm Type 97 Light Machine Gun in the hull. The short barreled 75 mm Type 99 Gun was mounted in a fully rotating enlarged three-man gun turret used for the Type 97 Shinhoto Chi-Ha tank.
caption: Type 2 gun tank Ho-I, side view
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