Comparing: Type 2597 Chi-Ha vs. MTLS-1G14

Developed by Mitsubishi from 1935 through 1937. The vehicle was mass-produced from 1938 through 1942, alongside an upgraded Shinhoto Chi-Ha for the last two years, with a total of 1,220 vehicles of both types manufactured. The Chi-Ha and Shinhoto Chi-Ha tanks were widely used by Japanese forces in China, and after Japan capitulation, these vehicles were used by both the PLA and Kuomintang forces in the Civil War of 1946.

Developed at the request of the Dutch East Indies, with a total of 125 vehicles manufactured from 1941 through 1942. Only 20 of them were ordered, and they never saw action.