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Country	Japan
Type	Machine Gun
Caliber	7.700 mm
Capacity	30 rounds
Length	1,156 mm
Barrel Length	721 mm
Weight	55.300 kg
Rate of Fire	450 rounds/min
Range	800 m
Muzzle Velocity	732 m/s

Contributor: C. Peter Chen

The Type 92 air-cooled heavy machine guns were designed by Kijiro Nambu. They were made the standard heavy machine gun of the Japanese Army in 1932. They were typically crewed by twenty men and two horses; a fully assembled Type 92 machine gun could be carried, with poles, by four to six men, while the others carried the heavy tripod, ammunition, and spare barrels. During the Pacific War, Allied servicemen nicknamed them "woodpeckers" because of these machine guns' distinct sound. They were used at times as light anti-aircraft weapons. Production of the Type 92 machine gun ceased in 1941.

Source: Wikipedia.

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Visitor Submitted Comments

1. Alan Chanter says:
   8 Jan 2008 01:49:15 AM
   
   The weight of this weapon as given above is somewhat misleading. The 55 Kg guoted was in fact the total weight inclusive of a 27 kg tripod. The weight of the gun itself being approx. 29 Kg (still quite heave compared with similar machine guns of other nations)

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