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Vintage Saturday: Japanese Holdouts on Mars!
Okay, it’s actually from 1940, at the Battle of Zaoyang Yichang in central China. Note the funky hopper-fed Type 11 LMG.
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Vintage Saturday: Motorized Type 38 Arisakas
If they all fire in the same direction simultaneously, that cart will exceed the maximum speed of a Type 89 medium tank. Okay, I’m exaggerating. A bit. (I know someone will chime in to defend […]
Book review
Book Review: Japanese Submachine Guns by William Easterly
Today we’re taking a look at William Easterly’s booklet “A Comprehensive Study [of] Japanese Submachine Guns: 1920 – 1945”. Talk about a subject with very little written coverage – Easterly has photos, data, and descriptions […]
Semiauto pistol
Japanese “Papa” Nambu video
In 1925, the Imperial Japanese Army adopted the Type 14 pistol, which was produced in large numbers during WWII. It looks outwardly pretty similar to a Luger, but i mechanically very different. What many folks […]
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Thanks to all our readers!
I’d like to take a moment to thank everyone who has become a part of the community we’re building here at Forgotten Weapons. We have some folks with access to great photos and documents who […]
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Vintage Saturday: Japanese ZB
Japanese troops with a ZB light machine gun in China, circa 1937
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Japanese Type 97 Naval Flare Pistol
Yesterday we received an email from a reader named Michael, asking for information on an interesting rare piece he has – a Type 97 Japanese naval flare pistol: For folks who aren’t familiar with Japanese […]
Artillery
Automatic cannon in the news
A couple piece of cannon news for you today, from fellow bloggers… Nic at The Rogue Adventurer has an interesting post on a Romanian AA cannon found being used in Libya. While it looks […]
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Vintage Saturday: Type 11 Nambu
That contemplative stare is him trying to figure out how to fire the gun, hold the hopper cover open, and load clips into the gun simultaneously with only two hands.
Light MGs
Japanese Type 11 Nambu LMG
Kojiro Nambu, one of Japan’s most prolific arms designers, developed the Type 11 light machine gun as an adaptation of his previous Type 3 HMG design. The Type 11 uses a distinctive hopper feed, and […]