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Imperial Japanese Armed Forces. The following is a list of Japanese military equipment of World War II which includes artillery, vehicles and vessels, and other support equipment of both the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA), and Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) from operations conducted from start of Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 to the end of World ...
List of Japanese infantry weapons used in the Second-Sino Japanese War; Sugiura pistol
Japanese infantry weapons were robust and reliable, the infantry were mainly armed with Arisaka rifles and officers Nambu pistols. Nambu also designed the military’s machine guns including the squad light machine guns and the heavier machine guns found at battalion level.
Index listing of all of the known guns and related infantry small arms used by the Japanese Empire in World War 2.
Japan officially joined the conflict in 1941 but was still involved in Second Sino-Japanese War. Japanese soldiers with a Type 92 machine gunduring the 1941 Battle of Changsha. See also: List of Japanese military equipment of World War IIand List of Japanese infantry weapons used in the Second-Sino Japanese War.
According to historian Michael Haskew, “The Imperial Japanese Army fielded two prominent bolt-action rifles during World War II, the Arisaka [Meiji] Type 38 and Type 99. These were identified according to the 38th year of the Meiji period and the year 2099 of the Japanese calendar, respectively.
Infantry Weapons: Japanese infantry were equipped with weapons such as the Ariska Rifle, Type 96 and Type 99 light machine guns, and grenades. Artillery: The army used a range of artillery, including howitzers, field guns, and anti-aircraft guns. Notably, the Type 89 15cm cannon and Type 91 10cm howitzer were common.
