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Type 100 submachine gun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (317 words) |
 | Japan was surprisingly late to introduce the submachine gun to its armed forces; the MP40 had been ubiquitous in the Wehrmacht since 1939. |
| The Type 100 was a well made gun, albeit with several strange features, including a complicated ammunition feed device that, for safety purposes, ensured that a round was completely chambered before firing, a complex system compounded by the curious bottle shaped round the Type 100 used. |
| Atypically for a submachine gun, a bayonet lug was fixed under the barrel. |
| Japanese Small Arms (961 words) |
| Although the Type 99 was to be the standard rifle of the Japanese Army it was never produced in sufficient quanties to meet the demand and served along side the Meiji 38th year rifle. |
| A feature unique to Japanese machine guns is sockets in the feet of the tripod which allows the crew to insert poles and carry the gun and tripod in one load ready for use. |
| This was the most common machine gun used by the Japanese during World war 2, due to a distinctive stuttering effect while firing this gun was nicknamed the wood pecker. |
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