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Revision as of 14:53, 9 December 2017
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.
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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First Squad: The Moment of Truth | 2009 |