The Type 11 Light Machine Gun (一一年式軽機関銃) was a Japanese machine gun produced after the First World War. Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links Type11LMG.JPG Source http://www. ... The word caliber (American English) or calibre (British English) comes from the Italian calibro, itself from the Arabic quâlib, meaning mould. ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ...
Based on a French design, the Type 11 was the first light machine gun that Japan produced. The Type 11 used a magazine that held six ammo clips as used for the Type 38 Rifle. However, this led to a loading mechanism that was so complicated that it caused lots of trouble in action. Type 38 Rifle Type service rifle Nation Japan Era Russo-Japanese War - WW2 History Date of design 1905 Production period Service duration 1905 -1945 Operators Japan War service Variants Cavalry rifle Number built 3,400,000 Specifications Type Calibre 6. ...
It was available with a special mounting for anti-aircraft use.
Machineguns derive their limited armor-penetrating capability both from the single bullet's penetration ability and from the effect the repeated hits of bullets in quick succession - as is the case with a machinegun - onto the same spot have on thin steel plates.
Development of the german machineguns went towards a general purpose machinegun, therewith abandoning the differentiation hitherto between lightmachineguns carried around by the assaulting infantry and heavy machineguns that were intended as stationary support weapons.
With the occupation of czechoslovakia in 1939 the germans captured 31,204 machineguns of the types ZB 1926 and ZB 1930, mostly the latter.
The konekivääri m/09-09 (MachineGun Model 09-09) was in fact a Russian PM 1905 or PM 1910 mounted on a Sokolov carriage.
To circumvent this problem the gun crew raised and lowered the gun using an adjustor wheel while the gun was firing, causing the bullets to strike the target area with slightly differing arcs, spreading the fire over a depth.
The gun commander was responsible for observation and correction of firing, the gunner did the firing, the assistant loaded the belt into the gun and guided it during firing.
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