The Type 92 heavy machine gun (九二式重機関銃, Kyūni-shiki jū-kikanjū) is a Japanese heavy machine gun, related to the Hotchkiss machine gun series. It entered service in 1932 and was the standard …

Two U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima use a captured Japanese Type 92 heavy machine gun against the enemy. Japan soon recognized the battlefield advantages of their new heavy machine gun in the …

Feb 17, 2017 · Full-scale production of the Type 92 delivered the Type 92 to Imperial Japanese Army units between 1932 and 1941. The Type 92 was a gas-operated, air-cooled weapon classified as a …

The Type 92 Heavy Machine Gun was Japan's most widely-used heavy machine gun in World War 2, but it had a fatal design flaw that would cost Japanese soldiers their lives.

They were made the standard heavy machine gun of the Japanese Army in 1932. They were typically crewed by twenty men and two horses; a fully assembled Type 92 machine gun could be carried, …

The standard heavy machine gun employed by Imperial Japanese forces in the Pacific War was the Type 92, commonly called the “Juki” by the combatants of both sides.

The Type 92 was developed in the 1930s as Japan's primary heavy machine gun. Firing the 7.7mm semi-rimmed round, it featured a tripod-mounted design, low cyclic rate, and extreme reliability.

The Type 92 Heavy Machine Gun (九二式重機関銃, Kyūni-shiki jū-kikanjū?) entered service in 1932 and was the standard Japanese heavy machine gun used during World War II.

*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 …

During World War II, the Imperial Japanese Army used the Type 92 Shiki Kikanju heavy machine gun as the standard heavy machine gun. It began with a design by Kijiro Nambu in 1932 and quickly went …