Type 3 heavy machine gun
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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. The Type 3 heavy machine gun was in a long-line of Japanese Hotchkiss machine gun variants that the Imperial Japanese Army would utilize from 1901 to 1945.[2]
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Type 3 machine gun | |
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Type | Heavy machine gun |
Place of origin | Empire of Japan |
Service history | |
In service | 1914–1945 |
Used by | See Users |
Wars | World War I Warlord Era Second Sino-Japanese War Soviet–Japanese border conflicts World War II First Indochina War Korean War Vietnam War |
Production history | |
Designer | Kijiro Nambu |
Designed | 1914 |
Produced | 1914–1932 |
Variants | Modelo 1920 |
Specifications | |
Mass | 55 kg (121 lb 4 oz) |
Length | 119.8 cm (3 ft 11.2 in) |
Barrel length | 737 mm (2 ft 5 in) |
Cartridge | 6.5x50mm Arisaka 7×57mm Mauser |
Rate of fire | 400-450 rounds per minute |
Muzzle velocity | 740 m/s (2,400 ft/s) |
Maximum firing range | 4 km (2.5 mi) |
Feed system | 30 round Hotchkiss-style feed strip |
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