Type 92 machine gun

The Type 92 machine gun was developed for aerial use for the Imperial Japanese Navy before the World War II. It was the standard hand-held machine gun in multi-place IJN aircraft during the most part of the Pacific War. It proved to be seriously incapable of doing its job adequately, and in the aircraft produced in the later part of the conflict its place often taken by weapons such as Type 1 and Type 2 machine guns or Type 99 cannon.

Basically a copy of the ubiquitous Lewis gun, the Type 92 was fed with a drum magazine and used in a flexible mount. The main external difference between the two models was the latter's lack of casing and cooling fins around the barrel and gas piston tube.

Installations

* Aichi D1A
* Aichi D3A
* Kawanishi E7K2Collier, Basil "Japanese Aircraft of World War II" Mayflower Books (1979) ISBN 0-8317-5137-1 pp.62-63]
* Kyūshū Q1W
* Mitsubishi F1M2Collier, Basil "Japanese Aircraft of World War II" Mayflower Books (1979) ISBN 0-8317-5137-1 p.101]
* Mitsubishi G3M
* Mitsubishi G4M
* Nakajima B5N
* Yokosuka B4Y

pecifications

*Caliber: 7.7 mm
*Length: 99 cm (39 in)
*Weight: 8 kg (19 lb)
*Rate of fire: 600 rounds/min
*Muzzle velocity: 760 m/s (2,500 ft/s)

Notes

References

* Tagaya, Osamu. Imperial Japanese Naval Aviator 1937-45 ISBN 978 1 84176 385 9
* McNab, Chris. Twentieth-century Small Arms ISBN 1 84013 381 3