Type 1 heavy machine gun

Type 1
Type	Heavy machine gun
Place of origin	Empire of Japan
Service history
In service	1941-1945
Used by	Japan
Wars	World War II, Chinese Civil War, First Indochina War
Production history
Designed	1941
Produced	1941 - 1945
Specifications
Weight	36.8 kg (gun & tripod)
Length	1077 mm
Barrel length	589 mm
Cartridge	7.7x58mm Arisaka
Action	Gas operated
Rate of fire	400-450 round/min
Muzzle velocity	770 m/s (2,500 ft/s)
Effective firing range	1,400 m
Maximum firing range	4,100 m
Feed system	Metallic feed trays with 30 rounds
Sights	Blade front sight with rear peep sight, graduated from 100 to 2,200 meters, with provision for mounting a telescope.

The Type 1 Heavy Machine Gun (一式重機関銃, Iti-shiki juu-kikanjuu) was a heavy machine gun used by the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second World War starting from 1941. It was sometimes used as a light anti-aircraft gun during the war in the Pacific. It is essentially a smaller, lighter version of the Type 92 Heavy Machine Gun. It employs the same principles of operation, simply with scaled down components. The barrel is designed to be rapidly changed in the field, as a result the barrel cooling rings have been reduced in size.

References

• TM-E 30-480, Handbook on Japanese Military Forces (PDF). United States War Department. 1944. 

External links

• The New Juki (U.S. Intelligence Report)

See also