Type 1 heavy machine gun
The Type 1 heavy machine gun was a heavy machine gun used by the Imperial Japanese Army during the later stages of the Second World War. Though seemingly intended to replace the older Type 92 heavy machine gun, the weapon never underwent the same level of mass production as its predecessor due to either material shortages or the fact that the Type 92 heavy machine gun was deemed as acceptable.
Type 1 heavy machine gun
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- Type 1 heavy machine gun
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- heavy machine gun
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- 1941
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- Empire of Japan
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• Name — Type 1 heavy machine gun • Type — Heavy machine gun • Origin — Empire of Japan • Is Ranged — yes • Service — 1942 – 1945 • Used By — Imperial Japanese Army Indonesia • Wars — * World War II • Indonesian National Revolution • Design Date — 1940 – 1941 • Production Date — 1942 – 1945 • Mass — 36.8 kg (Gun & tripod) • Length — 1077 mm • Part Length — 589 mm • Cartridge — 7.7×58mm Arisaka • Action — Gas-operated • Rate — 400–450 rounds/min • Velocity — 770 m/s • Range — 1400 m • Max Range — 4100 m • Feed — 30-round Metal feed trays • Sights — Blade front sight with rear peep sight, graduated from 100 to 2,200 meters, with provision for mounting a telescope.
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Type 1 heavy machine gun is recorded from 1941.
1941
Type 1 heavy machine gun was established or created in 1941.
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The Type 1 is essentially a smaller, lighter version of the Type 92 heavy machine gun. It employs the same principles of operation, simply with scaled down components. The barrel is designed to be rapidly changed in the field to prevent overheating, as a result the barrel cooling rings were reduced in size and the barrel jacket was done away with entirely. It was fed from 30-round brass feed strips. The overall rate of fire was higher than that of the Type 92 heavy machine gun. Like previous Japanese heavy machine gun models, the Type 1 was strip fed with 30 round strips. It was mounted in the same way as previous Japanese machine guns and issued to machine gun companies at the battalion level.
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- 1.Cita Markham 1977 pp. 65-66 .
- 2.Machine Guns.
- 3.The New Juki, Intelligence Bulletin, June 1945.
- 4.Cita Markham 1977 p. 69 .
- 5.Japanese «Catalog of Enemy Ordnance».
- 6.Philip Warner. Japanese Army of World War II. Osprey. 1973. 9780850451184.
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