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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. The gun was almost always employed from a special heavyweight tripod which included holes on the front legs, allowing rods to be passed through so the gun crew could move the weapon by carrying it like a stretcher. Notably it was one of the few WW2 machine guns commonly issued with optics, with several sights being designed specifically for it.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flying Leathernecks | Imperial Japanese Soldiers | 1951 | ||
| Halls of Montezuma | Imperial Japanese Soldiers | 1951 | ||
| Between Heaven and Hell | Imperial Japanese soldiers | 1956 | ||
| Merrill's Marauders | Imperial Japanese Soldiers | 1962 | ||
| Beach Red | Imperial Japanese Soldiers | 1967 | ||
| Japan's Longest Day | Japanese soldiers | 1967 | ||
| Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence | Imperial Japanese Soldiers | 1983 | ||
| Farewell To The King | Imperial Japanese Soldiers | 1989 | ||
| Windtalkers | Imperial Japanese Soldiers | 2002 | ||
| Flags of Our Fathers | Imperial Japanese Soldiers | 2006 | ||
| Kokoda | Imperial Japanese Soldiers | 2006 | ||
| Letters from Iwo Jima | Imperial Japanese Soldiers | 2006 | ||
| Letters from Iwo Jima | Ryô Kase | Superior Private Shimizu | 2006 | |
| Imperial Japanese Soldiers | ||||
| Philosophy of a Knife | archive footage | 2008 | ||
| The Children of Huang Shi | Imperial Japanese Soldiers | 2008 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Emperor | Japanese soldiers | 2013 | ||
| The Taking of Tiger Mountain | 2014 | |||
| Hacksaw Ridge | Imperial Japanese soldiers | In bunkers | 2016 |
Television
| Show Title / Episode | Actor | Character | Notes | Air Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Twilight Zone | Imperial Japanese Soldiers | "The Last Testament" (S1E19) | 1959 - 1960 | |
| Baa Baa Black Sheep | Imperial Japanese Soldiers | 1976 - 1978 | ||
| The Cowra Breakout | Imperial Japanese Soldiers | 1984 | ||
| Mail Call | R. Lee Ermey | Himself | 2002 – 2009 | |
| The Pacific | Imperial Japanese Soldiers | 2010 | ||
| Gyeongseong Creature | 2023 |
Video Games
| Game Title | Appears as | Notes | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forgotten Hope | 2003 | ||
| Hidden & Dangerous 2 | 2003 | ||
| Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault | 2004 | ||
| Call of Duty: World at War | 2008 | ||
| Call of Duty: World at War - Final Fronts | 2008 | ||
| Call of Duty: Black Ops | As a sentry turret in zombie mode, as well as a mounted machine gun in "Victor Charlie" | 2010 | |
| L.A. Noire | Non-Usable | 2010 | |
| Red Orchestra 2: Rising Storm | 2013 | ||
| Far East War | "Type 92 Heavy Machine Gun" | 2013 | |
| Enlisted | 2021 |
Anime
| Title | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Squad: The Moment of Truth | 2009 |