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  Japanese ZH-29 Copy by Tokyo Gas & El...

  Japanese ZH-29 Copy by Tokyo Gas & El...

  The Japanese military experimented with self-loading rifle designs through the 1930s, and had 4 major rifles in testing during that period. One was a new design by Kijiro Nambu, one was a Pedersen copy made by the Tokyo Army Arsenal, one was a gas operated toggle locking rifle by the Nippon Speci...

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  Type 92 Japanese HMG

  Type 92 Japanese HMG

  The Type 92 was the final iteration of a machine gun that began as the Model 1897 Hotchkiss HMG made in France. The Japanese army purchased many of these guns, and then produced their own slightly refined version. These in turn were replaced by the updated Type 3 (1914) heavy machine gun, and fin...

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  Japanese Type 1 Paratroop Folding Rifles

  Japanese Type 1 Paratroop Folding Rifles

  Before standardizing on the Type 2 paratroop rifle (a 7.7mm Arisaka that broke in half at the chamber), the Japanese military tested a variant of the Type 38 carbine with a folding stock retrofitted into place. Very few of these were made.