Type 3 heavy machine gun

Type 3 Machine Gun
Type 3 (Taishō 14) heavy machine gun. Musée de l'Armée, Paris.
Type	Heavy machine gun
Place of origin	Empire of Japan
Service history
Used by	Japan
Production history
Designer	Kijiro Nambu
Designed	1914
Specifications
Weight	55 kg
Length	119.8 cm
Barrel length	737 mm

Cartridge	6.5x50mm Arisaka
Rate of fire	400-450 rounds per minute
Muzzle velocity	740 m/s (2,400 ft/s)
Effective firing range	4,000 m
Feed system	30 rounds strip

The Type 3 Heavy Machine Gun (三年式重機関銃, San-nen-shiki juu-kikanjuu), also known as the Taishō 14 Machine Gun,^[1] was a Japanese air-cooled heavy machine gun, based on the design of the Hotchkiss M1914. Although the Hotchkiss used 8mm cartridges, from 1914 Japan produced the Type 3 under license from Hotchkiss using the 6.5x50mm Arisaka ammunition.^[2]

A Type 3 on a makeshift anti-aerial tripod.

It used an ammo strip for loading rounds. Its tripod could be used as an anti-aircraft mounting, and special anti-aircraft sights were provided.

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Japanese Infantry Weapons of World War II

Swords

Guntō

Bayonets

Type 30
Type 2

Handguns

Rifles

Arisaka	Type 30 Type 30 Carbine Type 35 Type 38 Type 38 Carbine Type 44 Carbine Type 97 Sniper Rifle Type 99 Type 99 Sniper Rifle TERA

Other	Type 4 Automatic Rifle Type 97 Automatic Cannon Type I Type Mo

Grenade Launcher	Type 10 Type 89

Rifle Grenade	Type 100 Type 2

Rocket Launchers

Experimental Type 4
Experimental Type 5

Flamethrowers

Number 1
Number 2
Type 93
Type 95
Type 100

Cartridges

Rifle	6.5×50mmSR Type 30 6.5×50mmSR Type 38 7.7×58mmSR Type 89 7.7×58mmSR Type 92 7.7×58mm Type 97 7.7×58mm Type 99 .303 British

Handgun	9×22mmR Type 26 8×22mm Type 14 7×20mm Nambu

Firearms of Japan

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