Type-60 Roku-Maru

The Type-60 (60式戦車), also known as the Roku-Maru, is a heavy armoured fighting vehicle. It is designed for heavy battlefield support and control, and is equipped with an innovative drive system allowing for superior mobility. The tank's four vehicle treads can extend and act as legs in a "walker mode", in order to traverse rough terrain and avoid a variety of man-made or natural obstacles.

The large turret is fully capable of rotating, and is equipped with a 125mm smoothbore gun and a pair of 10-tube missile launchers. In addition to this, it also has a coaxial machine gun and a belly-mounted machine gun turret that emerges in "walker mode". Defensive measures include the tank's formidable nancrystal synthetic titanium armour and composite armour plating, soft and hard kill defensive systems and an EMP generator.

Primary
The main armament of the Type-60 is the Sukimoto Ta09 125mm smoothbore gun, newly developed specifically for the Type-60. Variant guns with longer barrels exist, but as of yet are not installed into fielded vehicles.

Using an automatic loader, the gun fires the advanced multipurpose KoTaKu round, with numerous attack modes. The KoTaKu round is capable of point detonation, delay and airburst modes through an ammunition data link and a multi-mode, programmable fuse in a single munition. It is also capable of dumb-fire or self-guided homing modes. Having one round that does the job of four simplifies logistics and allows the round to be effective against bunkers, infantry, light armour and obstacles out to 500 meters. It is also able to breach reinforced walls and defeat missile teams from 500 to 2,000 meters.

In addition to the KoTaKu round, the gun can also fire anti-armour plasma-based rounds.