Type 92 Heavy Machine Gun

The Type 92 Heavy Machine Gun was essentially a Type 3 Heavy Machine Gun chambered for the larger 7.7x58mm SR round; as with its cousin, it is a derivative of the Hotchkiss M1914 Machine Gun. Due to its relatively slow rate of fire, the allies nicknamed it "the woodpecker" while Chinese soldiers called it the "chicken neck" due to its appearance.

While it was extremely accurate (only weighing five pounds less than a tripod-mounted Browning M2 while firing a rifle cartridge will do that) this was to the point that it was detrimental to its function as a suppression weapon, and it depended on an obsolete loading method with 30-round feed strips that had to be inserted extremely carefully to avoid misfeeds: just to make matters worse, the Japanese were not done with obsolete features and incorporated an integral oiler into the design to ensure reliability, which in the jungles of the Pacific theatre ensured quite the opposite. It also used specially-made ammunition which did not help with logistics at all (Imperial Japan used a total of four non-interchangeable 7.7x58mm Arisaka cartridges): rifle ammo would physically fit in the Type 92 but was unable to cycle it.

Specifications

(1932 - 1941)

Type: Heavy Machine Gun*

Caliber: 7.7x58mm SR

Capacity: 30 round feed strip

Fire Modes: Fully Automatic (450 rounds per minute)

*Really the Type 92 should be considered a medium machine gun, as it fires a rifle bullet and does not have any capacity to accept a belt feed; only the enormous weight of the weapon (122 pounds with a tripod) really qualifies it as a "heavy" machine gun.

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Type 92 Heavy Machine Gun 7.7x58mm SR

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Type 92 Heavy Machine Gun.

The Type 92 Heavy Machine Gun and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
Halls of Montezuma		Imperial Japanese Soldiers		1951
Between Heaven and Hell		Imperial Japanese soldiers		1956
Merrill's Marauders		Imperial Japanese Soldiers		1962
Windtalkers		Imperial Japanese Soldiers		2002
Kokoda		Imperial Japanese Soldiers		2006
Letters from Iwo Jima		Imperial Japanese Soldiers		2006
The Good, the Bad, the Weird		Imperial Japanese Soldiers		2008
City of Life and Death		Imperial Japanese Soldiers		2009
Kokoda		Imperial Japanese Soldiers		2010
Death and Glory in Changde		Imperial Japanese soldiers		2010
Hacksaw Ridge		Imperial Japanese soldiers	In bunkers	2016

Television

Show Title / Episode	Actor	Character	Notes	Air Date
Baa Baa Black Sheep		Imperial Japanese Soldiers		1976 - 1978
Mail Call	R. Lee Ermey	Himself		2002 – 2009
The Pacific		Imperial Japanese Soldiers		2010

Video Games

Game Title	Mods	Notes	Release Date
Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault			2004
Call of Duty: World at War			2008
Call of Duty: Black Ops	As a sentry turret in zombie mode, as well as a mounted machine gun in "Victor Charlie"		2010

Anime

Title	Character	Note	Date
First Squad: The Moment of Truth			2009