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Type 99 light machine gun
Type 99 light machine gun seen at the New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.
Type
Light machine gun
Place of origin
Empire of Japan
Service history
In service
1939–1945
Used by
See Users
Wars
Second Sino-Japanese War World War II Indonesian National Revolution Hukbalahap Rebellion[citation needed] Korean War Chinese Civil War First Indochina War Vietnam War
Production history
Designer
Kijiro Nambu
Designed
1939
Manufacturer
Nambu Arms Manufacturing Company
Kokura Arsenal
Nagoya Arsenal
Unit cost
1,350 yen ($316 USD) in December 1941[1][2]
Produced
1939–1945
No. built
53,000
Specifications
Mass
10.4 kg (22.9 lbs)
Length
1181 mm (46.5 in)
Barrel length
550 mm (21.7 in)
Cartridge
7.7×58mm Arisaka
Action
Gas-operated
Rate of fire
550 rounds/min[3][4][5]
Muzzle velocity
2,346 feet per second (715 m/s)
Effective firing range
2,000 m (2,200 yd)
Maximum firing range
3,500 m (3,800 yd) (7.7×58mm Arisaka)
Feed system
30 round detachable box magazine
The Type 99 light machine gun (九九式軽機関銃, Kyūkyū-shiki Kei-kikanjū) was a light machine gun used by the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II. It was similar in design to the earlier Type 96 light machine gun, but designed to fire the new and more powerful 7.7×58mm Arisaka cartridge, which improved energy by over 50%. Other improvements included the omission of the oiling mechanism which resulted in a better all-round weapon. The Type 99 never fully replaced the previous models of Japanese light machine guns, and served alongside the Type 11 and Type 96 until 1945.
^Military catalogue of the Japanese military - Showa 16, p. 7
^Banking and Monetary Statistics, 1914-1941, Part I, p. 673
^Sayama Jiro (2000) "Primer of Rifle, Pistol and Machine Gun" p.441
^Ministry of Army (1945) "8. Specification table of weapons; Specification table of main weapons"
^Tateyama Naval Artillery School "Land Combat Reference - No. 1, Land Combat Weapon List"
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