Type 5 Heavy

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 The Type 5 Heavy is a Japanese tier 10 heavy tank.

## Tank Packages

### Type 5 Heavy

Turret: tier 10 Type 5 Heavy

Turret Armor: 280/210/200

Traverse Speed (deg/sec): 18

View Range (m): 400

Gun: tier 10 14 cm/50 3rd Year Type

Rate of Fire (rounds/min): 3.39

Penetration: 249/282/70

Damage: 600/600/770

Aiming Time (sec): 2.50

Accuracy: 0.40

Engine: tier 10 Kawasaki Type 98 V-12 1200 Kai

Engine Power (h.p.): 1200

Tracks: tier 10 Type 5 Heavy

Traverse speed (deg/sec): 22

Radio: tier 10 Type 3 Ko

Signal Range (m): 750

### Type 2605

Turret: tier 10 Type 5 Heavy

Turret Armor: 280/210/200

Traverse Speed (deg/sec): 18

View Range (m): 400

Gun: tier 10 15 cm/45 41st Year Type

Rate of Fire (rounds/min): 3

Penetration: 75/334

Damage: 1,100/750

Aiming Time (sec): 2.90

Accuracy: 0.50

Engine: tier 10 Kawasaki Type 98 V-12 1200 Kai

Engine Power (h.p.): 1200

Tracks: tier 10 Type 5 Heavy

Traverse speed (deg/sec): 22

Radio: tier 10 Type 3 Ko

Signal Range (m): 750

## Performance

### Pros

* Strong frontal armor with rather small weakspots that are resistant against most low tier vehicles. Even when unangled, Type 5 Heavy is almost immune to every standard AP ammunition (except tier 10 TD's)
* 2nd highest HP pool in the game at 2800
* Has very tough side armor, making it much more effective at sidescraping compared to other Japanese heavies
* Unlike Type 4 Heavy, hull cheeks are no longer a weakspot, which further improves Type 5's ability to angle its armor, especially when combined with it's very good side armor
* 15 cm gun has very good shell velocity (850 m/s), and decent gun handling for a howitzer
* Very good gun depression. (-10) at sides and (-8) at the front
* Huge size and mass means that the Type 5 can easily push other tanks and their wrecks around, facehug effectively and is so large that it can act as cover for smaller tanks and when destroyed as effective roadblock
* Huge ammo capacity on both guns, will never run out of ammo on battle

### Cons

* Biggest tier 10 in the game; easy to hit even at long range
* Armor is quite flat, which makes it vulnerable to tier 10 TD's and premium ammo when not angled; high armor thickness with lack of weakspots encourages usage of premium ammo
* Priority target for artillery
* 14 cm gun has poor penetration on standard and premium rounds
* 15 cm gun had its premium round penetration nerfed from 334 to 264 in recent update
* Slow rate of fire on both guns, with the 15 cm it has the second slowest reload of all single shot heavies at 20 seconds (behind 60TP)
* Weak P/W ratio and low top speed
* Huge ammorack is easily damaged from the side
* Large cupola, while not very weak, is quite easy to hit and commander can easily be knocked down if the cupola is penetrated

The Type 5 Heavy's performance is mostly identical to the preceding Type 4 Heavy. However, the Type 5 offers slightly improved mobility, slightly improved armor, and improved gun handling and reload time.