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Light machine gun
Type 96 light machine gun
Type 96 light machine gun (without magazine)
Type
Light machine gun
Place of origin
Empire of Japan
Service history
In service
1936–1945
Used by
See Users
Wars
Second Sino-Japanese War Soviet–Japanese border conflicts World War II Indonesian National Revolution Chinese Civil War Korean War First Indochina War Vietnam War
Production history
Designer
Kijiro Nambu
Designed
1936
Unit cost
1,125 yen ($263 USD) in December 1941[1][2]
Produced
1936–1943
No. built
41,000
Specifications
Mass
9 kg (20 lb)
Length
1,070 mm (42 in)
Barrel length
550 mm (22 in)
Cartridge
6.5×50mm Arisaka
Action
Gas-operated
Rate of fire
550 rounds/min
Muzzle velocity
735 m/s (2,410 ft/s)
Effective firing range
800 m (870 yd)
Maximum firing range
3,500 m (3,800 yd) (6.5x50mm Arisaka)
Feed system
30 round detachable box magazine
The Type 96 light machine gun (九六式軽機関銃, Kyūroku-shiki Kei-kikanjū) was a light machine gun used by the Imperial Japanese Army in the interwar period and in World War II.[3] It was first introduced in 1936, and fires the 6.5x50mm Arisaka from 30-round top-mounted magazines. A combination of unimpressive ballistic performance and a lack of reliability caused the Imperial Japanese Army to try to replace the Type 96 with the Type 99 light machine gun, though both saw major usage until the end of the war.
^Military catalogue of the Japanese military Showa 16, p. 7
^Banking and Monetary Statistics, 1914-1941, Part I, p. 673
^Bishop, Chris (1998). The Encyclopedia of Weapons of World War II. Sterling Publishing. pp. 238–239.
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