That Japanese Pedersen semiautomatic rifle would've given the Japanese a level firefight to the Americans M1 Garand. Also the Japanese military should've made more use of the Type 100 Submachine gun as a frontline infantry weapon. They were definitely at a major disadvantage in a gun fight against American troops in most engagements during the war.
Most are copies from Eastern European countries, such as the Infanterie Gewehr 88, Infanterie Gewehr 95 (Austro -Hungarian Empire), Schmidt - Rubin K31 (Switzerland), Gewehr 98/Kar98k, (German Empire)... Beside making copies from those countries, they did import Chinese Type 24 Mauser rifles, and locally-made Arisaka rifles,..
They were short of all sorts of minerals, steel oil, they could never make enough of whatever they chose to make. Modern war depends on economy and logistics. Or you freeze in stalingrad
They had the technology of a WW1 military, their equipment was absolutely a meme including their meme tanks, they literally had their asses handed to them by a bunch of cavalry tanks.
@@tanyeweestudent6856 yeah the British had no real Tank force in the Pacific. Japanese Tanks wouldn't survive open field combat against other ww2 (accept for Italy's "Tanks"). The Majority of Japanese Tank are used for infantry Support. And based on French Renault ww1 Tank ( Type 95 ).
@@tanyeweestudent6856 Japanese tanks were few in number and no match for Matilda or M3 tanks much less M4 tanks. Riveted hulls with thin armor and small caliber low velocity guns were decades out of date. They lacked the resources to do better. That's human resources, manufacturing capacity, and the materials needed. Japan simply bit off way more than they could chew.
Maybe 5 Polish weapons that were needed in WWII ? IT could be 10TP tank and PZL-50 , RWD-25 and prototype canons , mortars and PZInż prototype cars and trucks
Thank you for rather unknown story behind these unofficially used weapons. This is my first time to know Japanese army used small numbers of Pedersen Rifles in WW2. Originally, Pedersen Device was a conversion kit to turn bolt action Springfield M1903 to semi-auto during WW1. They were planning to deploy this when their numbers came up to 100000. But WW1 ended before that. And they were sold as the army surplus goods. This is what I have heard decades ago.
While interesting, it's easy to understand why Japan did not adopt these weapons: they COULD NOT mass produce them. They both lacked resorces and specialized equipment. They kept using metal clips (Type 92 HMG for example) to avoid wasting ammo they could not efficiently supply, unless strictly necessary (belt fed MGs on planes). Italy did the same exact thing.
They didn't lack the equipment nor the technology. Japan was already a much advanced nation by then. The Mistsubishi "Zero" for instance was a fighter plane to contend with and they had the means and knowledge to build air carriers, cruisers and submarines therefore making a smg or even a battle rifle was within their capacity but the old school military cadre entrenched at the top didn't think much of semiauto rifles and smg's, so their soldiers didn't have them when they needed them most.
@@chapiit08 100% wrong: 1. Having the knowledge doesn't mean mass production is feasible 2. Italy had a working jet-fighter (Campini-Caproni C.C.2) in 1941, yet no mass production occured 3. Japan High Command kept using "old doctrines" because lacked funds and resources to waste on experimentation 4. No mass production = no specialized equipment/workers/resources (again, to be wasted on experimentation)
@@chapiit08 I saw a documentary in which a Japanese said the Zero was the greatest acrobatic plane of its time but in hindsight a terrible fighter. The Zero had been made extremely light to save as much weight as possible as Japanese engines of the 1930s and very early 1940s had many issues and were underpowered. Zero also had no armor or self sealing fuel tanks. It was very well used at the start of the war when allied pilots tried to dogfight but once they realized all they had to do was boom and zoom it was all over.
I think by the end of the war japan mainly focused on its homeland defence arms otherwise they still had occupied and hold many territories with resources example malaysia and Vietnam which had the rubber, oil, and metals needed for production.
They had the resources to produce a freaking world's 2nd best navy, and millions of type 99 chrome lined rifles. They had the resources to have 2 different main calibers for the infantry, 3 different main lmgs, etc.
@@denisiodiderotti._.6962 actually, these projects were transported by Japanese submarines but these were sunk by US naval forces on their way back to Japan, Japan designed their own prototypes based on the engineering drawing, the IJA also bought two tiger tanks for research but two of these have never been landed on Japan, and the IJA produced their own tanks like the Chi-Nu and Chi-To and one incomplete prototype of the Chi-Ri.
I have a complete machine shop including CNC lathes , mills and laser cutter . Auto firearms are easy ... and particularly with a tubular receiver like the Nambu or American grease gun .
The Type Hei automatic rifle (that you've labelled "Shisei Type Hei") was not developed in 1934! It was a modification of the standard Type Hei self-loading rifle and was developed during the war by Dr. Masaya Kawamura. The Nambu Type II was chambered only in 8mm Nambu and was NOT adopted in 1936! It was developed as a PROTOTYPE in 1935 but some of them were later pressed into service during World War II as an emergency measure due to a lack of SMGs available. The reason it wasn't adopted fully is because there were faults inherent in the design, such as placing the recoil spring around the barrel, which is a pretty terrible idea. So really it was not superior to the Type 100 at all. The Japanese did not purchase SMGs from Germany, they bought the SIG Model 1920 and Steyr-Solothurn S1-100 both from Switzerland. Where do you get this information from? Your videos have a lot of errors.
Listen man sometimes it can be hard to find info on this kind of stuff if the think the video is bad leave a dislike and go to a new channel. No need to stick around and write a book.
@@bock8099 I'd rather not leave a dislike, I genuinely want to know where this guy gets his info from because he says a lot of things in his videos that seem to be outright made-up.
Spot on analysis. Yes Imperial Japan produced outdated Small arms which was Very shortsighted decision for a then near future planned war with multiable nations. The Shisei Type Hei 1934 would have been the most advanced Main Battle Rifle fielded to any Army during the WW2 era. The Imperial Japanese Handguns were also considered inferior in both quality,functionality and caliber. It is known that a number of Japanese Officers carried foreign handguns ,pistols as they had to privately purchase their sidearms. As such a number of the Japanese Military Officers recognized that their Japanese made pistols were inferior to most foreign models such as the Browning M35 High Power which was also known to be owned and carried by some Imperial Japanese Military Officers. These foolish shortsighted decisions by the Imperial Japanese Command to Keep older outdated technological Small arms designs ultimately was of great benefit to the Allies as such was a factor that led to the Japanese loosing the war.
Semi auto rifles were actually not that big of an advantage as the smle was able to come closely to the garand performance yet still cost half as much to produce. The japanese needed t99s per squad OR an smg for jungle combat, preferably with a better pistol caliber.
America at the beginning of WW2 used the 06 Springfield and during the war many rear units still used it England, Germany,Italy and the Soviets used bolt actions
The Johnson was not the replacement to the brand new M1garand. The M1 was adopted in 1936 and really mass produced later on. In 1941 the Johnson rifle did compete against the M1 in weapons trials but failed. But it certainly wasn’t a replacement.
Who ever gets fire superiority first usually wins the battle. Because then the other side will get pinned down and then maneuvered against and destroyed.
I think they need to produce and deploy more type 100, makin stuff like mg 42 or m1919 rather than stripper clip machine gun, also portabale anti tank weapon like panzerfaust or zookas...
2:08 from what I read not a single Japanese Pedersen rifle was ever reliable even after so many years of tinkering. It was not a good design for an infantryman and even America adopted the Garand over the Pedersen. During the entire 1930s the Japanese military had many competitions to create a semi-auto rifle but they all failed, another design the Japanese tried to make was the Czech ZH-29. When the Second Sino Japanese War started all these semi-auto trials got ended but by the end of WW2 the Japanese had tried to reverse engineer the Garand and had a prototype called the Type 5 rifle, a Garand with a 10 round magazine that fired 7.7x58 but again it was not reliable.
Just a question - The photo of the Japanese soldier who is sitting and holding a machinegun - What is he wearing in the "pouch" on his left side ? Is this a small mortar ? Thanks
its a small katana style bayonet , the type 100 came with a bayonet for banzai charges. Although it was kinda pointless by 1942. Japanese soldiers also had bayonets for their LMG's
5. Japanese Pedersen rifle. (IJA brass would rage about "wasted ammunition"...like the U.S. Board of Officers.) 4. Shisei No. Hei-Manual, Second Model. (A Japanese SVT? Hmm.) 3. Shisei Type Hei Automatic Rifle [1934]. (The failure of Japanese logistics to supply troops in the field argues against it.) 2. Tokyo Arsenal Model 1927. (The 8mm Nambu pistol cartridge was too low powered.) 1. Nanbu IIB SMG [1936]. (See above.)
Did I miss mention of the Indian Army, a massive effort to support the Empire with the promise of consideration of independence after the war, which was quietly forgotten until forced on the politicians after VJ day
When you say “should” of used there are things like limited materials or the navy taking more steel from the army, and they don’t have same industrial capacity if they wanted it but wouldn’t be able to mass produce easily
They could of used the resources set aside for the military for these weapons. Your reasoning mostly applies to vehicles and artillery for the ground forces (not wanting to divert resources away from the navy and air force was the actual reasons for not investing into their ground forces for better vehicles and artillery). Honestly its typical thinking of Japanese higher ups and old Japanese men in positions of power. Same reason why they blundered Pearl Habour (yes Pearl Habour was a botched job, and they all knew it was a mistake long before they even attacked), and you can still see the same kind of thinking in Japanese companies today.
I don't want to be a spoilsport here but this soldier in your thumbnail doesn't seem to be Japanese at all. That big sheathed blade he carries looks like Takasago combat knife, typically used by native Formosan [Taiwanese] volunteers.
Semi auto battle rifles weren't a good investment since they could only be used for ww2. Especially since the stg44, Johnson, sks and ak47 were on the horizon of being invented. What they needed was mass produced machine guns in each squad until the latter were developed. The t99 lmg was only 1 or 2 per platoon. It was a rarity.
1. They were financially broke, so no new stuff was fast-tracked. 2. Their military services were politically deadlocked and directly competed for resources, so totally inefficient. 3. The bulk of their soldiers were barely literate farm boys inexperienced with machinery, so everything had to be SIMPLE. They never stood a chance.
The Japanese were alright with bolt action rifles I believe they needed a better heavy light machine gun if they had 30 000 mg 42 with with ammo had properly trained 3 man teams they would of brought hell to opposing allied forces. One more thing they needed was a medium tank maybe a mk 4 panzer with a 75 mm gun or 75 mm tank destroyers even on there islands if they had a dozen 88 mm German flak guns some for air craft some for landing it would of been carnage for the allies
During the interwar period of 1920-30s, all of the majo powers went into the research & development of the self-loading service rifles. But UK and Japan have eventually left the project behind. In case of Britain, their demand was too high. So none of their trial models passed their test. In case of Japan, they gave it up due their limited industrial capacity. Autoloaders are bigger eaters of ammo. And they thought they can never produce enough rounds to feed their future weapons. They have not developed any military autoloader of their own until 1964. It was called Type 64(AKA Howa Type 64). Howa is its makers's name. It is regarded pretty accurate. But its selector switch/manual safety is located on the right side of the weapon. And it must be pulled out to change the setting. Not very popular among the grunts
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That Japanese Pedersen semiautomatic rifle would've given the Japanese a level firefight to the Americans M1 Garand. Also the Japanese military should've made more use of the Type 100 Submachine gun as a frontline infantry weapon. They were definitely at a major disadvantage in a gun fight against American troops in most engagements during the war.
I'm from Thailand and I really do want to see Siamese weapons of WW2
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Most are copies from Eastern European countries, such as the Infanterie Gewehr 88, Infanterie Gewehr 95 (Austro -Hungarian Empire), Schmidt - Rubin K31 (Switzerland), Gewehr 98/Kar98k, (German Empire)...
Beside making copies from those countries, they did import Chinese Type 24 Mauser rifles, and locally-made Arisaka rifles,..
อันดับ1ทุกวงการ yuo were not fighting in ww2 you came late in ww2
@@louisbeerreviews8964 We joined WW2 on 21 Dec 1941 how is that late?
@H2O Addict We helped to Japanese to conquer Burma and we also fought the french in Indochina
The USMC felt that bolt actions were good enough. that's why the first div. went ashore at Guadalcanal and thought nothing of it.
Just like Germany they had the technology but did not use it until it was too late.
They were short of all sorts of minerals, steel oil, they could never make enough of whatever they chose to make.
Modern war depends on economy and logistics.
Or you freeze in stalingrad
They had the technology of a WW1 military, their equipment was absolutely a meme including their meme tanks, they literally had their asses handed to them by a bunch of cavalry tanks.
@@tanyeweestudent6856 yeah the British had no real Tank force in the Pacific. Japanese Tanks wouldn't survive open field combat against other ww2 (accept for Italy's "Tanks"). The Majority of Japanese Tank are used for infantry Support. And based on French Renault ww1 Tank ( Type 95 ).
@@tanyeweestudent6856 Japanese tanks were few in number and no match for Matilda or M3 tanks much less M4 tanks. Riveted hulls with thin armor and small caliber low velocity guns were decades out of date. They lacked the resources to do better. That's human resources, manufacturing capacity, and the materials needed. Japan simply bit off way more than they could chew.
@trueblueprussian 23 yeah, their Air Force is considered to be superior to the U.S. during early pacific war before they ran out of resources
Maybe 5 Polish weapons that were needed in WWII ?
IT could be 10TP tank and PZL-50 , RWD-25 and prototype canons , mortars and PZInż prototype cars and trucks
Poland should have had a far better chance of fighting off the German army had they possessed an armored force before the war
The odd mixture of political favoritism and military infighting ended up neutering the possibilities for the imperial army
You've done gone and done it again buddy! Great content, thank you!
Thank you for rather unknown story behind these unofficially used weapons. This is my first time to know Japanese army used small numbers of Pedersen Rifles in WW2. Originally, Pedersen Device was a conversion kit to turn bolt action Springfield M1903 to semi-auto during WW1. They were planning to deploy this when their numbers came up to 100000. But WW1 ended before that. And they were sold as the army surplus goods. This is what I have heard decades ago.
the pedersen rifle and the pedersen device are two completely different inventions from pedersen.
The Japanese in ww2 are a great example of how much damage being closed minded can do.
While interesting, it's easy to understand why Japan did not adopt these weapons: they COULD NOT mass produce them. They both lacked resorces and specialized equipment. They kept using metal clips (Type 92 HMG for example) to avoid wasting ammo they could not efficiently supply, unless strictly necessary (belt fed MGs on planes). Italy did the same exact thing.
They didn't lack the equipment nor the technology. Japan was already a much advanced nation by then. The Mistsubishi "Zero" for instance was a fighter plane to contend with and they had the means and knowledge to build air carriers, cruisers and submarines therefore making a smg or even a battle rifle was within their capacity but the old school military cadre entrenched at the top didn't think much of semiauto rifles and smg's, so their soldiers didn't have them when they needed them most.
@@chapiit08 100% wrong:
1. Having the knowledge doesn't mean mass production is feasible
2. Italy had a working jet-fighter (Campini-Caproni C.C.2) in 1941, yet no mass production occured
3. Japan High Command kept using "old doctrines" because lacked funds and resources to waste on experimentation
4. No mass production = no specialized equipment/workers/resources (again, to be wasted on experimentation)
@@chapiit08 I saw a documentary in which a Japanese said the Zero was the greatest acrobatic plane of its time but in hindsight a terrible fighter. The Zero had been made extremely light to save as much weight as possible as Japanese engines of the 1930s and very early 1940s had many issues and were underpowered. Zero also had no armor or self sealing fuel tanks. It was very well used at the start of the war when allied pilots tried to dogfight but once they realized all they had to do was boom and zoom it was all over.
I think by the end of the war japan mainly focused on its homeland defence arms otherwise they still had occupied and hold many territories with resources example malaysia and Vietnam which had the rubber, oil, and metals needed for production.
They had the resources to produce a freaking world's 2nd best navy, and millions of type 99 chrome lined rifles.
They had the resources to have 2 different main calibers for the infantry, 3 different main lmgs, etc.
I really like your videos they' are interesting about World War 2🙏🏻 keep up the good job man I love the videos!
Are they all as bad as this one
Jmantime actually japan some ww2 era weapons like type 99. Also I've also heard they had prototypes for jets.
Yes, they had jets prototypes at the last months of Wwii. They never saw combat.
@@L.P.1987 I know that's why j said prototypes.
The germans gave to them some projects
@@denisiodiderotti._.6962 actually, these projects were transported by Japanese submarines but these were sunk by US naval forces on their way back to Japan, Japan designed their own prototypes based on the engineering drawing, the IJA also bought two tiger tanks for research but two of these have never been landed on Japan, and the IJA produced their own tanks like the Chi-Nu and Chi-To and one incomplete prototype of the Chi-Ri.
Well done ! Good job !
You have to take account of oiling every round in the Pedersen style rifles. The ejection is pretty violent.
Not with the type hei, it had a piston to unlock the toggle instead of it blowing straight back. No need for a fluted chamber or oiled ammunition.
AWESOME ! LOVE THAT NAMBU type ll model B , Just wish someone would reproduce it in airsoft or bb gun :-)
Any decent machinist with a lathe and milling machine could make one Bill .
@@QuantumPyrite_88.9 That`s true BUT you have to have the tools to do it :-)
I have a complete machine shop including CNC lathes , mills and laser cutter . Auto firearms are easy ... and particularly with a tubular receiver like the Nambu or American grease gun .
@@QuantumPyrite_88.9 Nice :-)
The Type Hei automatic rifle (that you've labelled "Shisei Type Hei") was not developed in 1934! It was a modification of the standard Type Hei self-loading rifle and was developed during the war by Dr. Masaya Kawamura.
The Nambu Type II was chambered only in 8mm Nambu and was NOT adopted in 1936! It was developed as a PROTOTYPE in 1935 but some of them were later pressed into service during World War II as an emergency measure due to a lack of SMGs available. The reason it wasn't adopted fully is because there were faults inherent in the design, such as placing the recoil spring around the barrel, which is a pretty terrible idea. So really it was not superior to the Type 100 at all.
The Japanese did not purchase SMGs from Germany, they bought the SIG Model 1920 and Steyr-Solothurn S1-100 both from Switzerland.
Where do you get this information from? Your videos have a lot of errors.
I should add that Kijiro Nambu did not actually design the Nambu Type II, he simply owned the company that produced it.
Listen man sometimes it can be hard to find info on this kind of stuff if the think the video is bad leave a dislike and go to a new channel. No need to stick around and write a book.
@@bock8099 I'd rather not leave a dislike, I genuinely want to know where this guy gets his info from because he says a lot of things in his videos that seem to be outright made-up.
@@paulwhaleron1600 you should leave a dislike and go to another chanel that's more your taste.
Spot on analysis.
Yes Imperial Japan produced outdated Small arms which was
Very shortsighted decision for a then near future planned war with multiable nations.
The Shisei Type Hei 1934 would have been the most advanced Main Battle Rifle fielded to any Army during the WW2 era.
The Imperial Japanese Handguns were also considered inferior in both quality,functionality and caliber.
It is known that a number of Japanese Officers carried foreign handguns ,pistols as they had to privately purchase their sidearms.
As such a number of the Japanese Military Officers recognized that their Japanese made pistols were inferior to most foreign models such as the Browning M35 High Power which was also known to be owned and carried by some Imperial Japanese Military Officers.
These foolish shortsighted decisions by the Imperial Japanese Command to
Keep older outdated technological
Small arms designs ultimately was of great benefit to the Allies as such was a factor that led to the Japanese loosing the war.
Semi auto rifles were actually not that big of an advantage as the smle was able to come closely to the garand performance yet still cost half as much to produce.
The japanese needed t99s per squad OR an smg for jungle combat, preferably with a better pistol caliber.
America at the beginning of WW2 used the 06 Springfield and during the war many rear units still used it
England, Germany,Italy and the Soviets used bolt actions
They had light machine guns
@@tomhenry897
While many soldiers used bolt action Rifles, the Garands, Johnson Rifles SVT40's were also being used.
Keep em’ coming!!!
The Johnson was not the replacement to the brand new M1garand. The M1 was adopted in 1936 and really mass produced later on. In 1941 the Johnson rifle did compete against the M1 in weapons trials but failed. But it certainly wasn’t a replacement.
the IPA lacked a large number of submachine and semi-automatic weapons so it's understandable to utilize the type 99 LMG as assault rifles
Who ever gets fire superiority first usually wins the battle. Because then the other side will get pinned down and then maneuvered against and destroyed.
darn japnese had ten time more MP than french
you had to mention than japnese grenade was fuze triggered by a fire lighter
Japanese copy of Czechoslovak ZH-29 exported to China could be added too. Also their copy of Garand.
I think they need to produce and deploy more type 100, makin stuff like mg 42 or m1919 rather than stripper clip machine gun, also portabale anti tank weapon like panzerfaust or zookas...
They haved but just for fighter and bomber plane.. see type 98 mg
Didn’t have a need for anti tank weapons above 20mm
We only fielded few tanks against them
That weapon in 1:11 is used In BF1942 and called as type 10
Nope, different rifle. BF1942 uses the Type 4 (called Type 5 ingame)
It's the Type 5 Garand man, not the Type 10.
Viktor Uliyanovic Kaczunsky no is a type 5 garand
2:08 from what I read not a single Japanese Pedersen rifle was ever reliable even after so many years of tinkering. It was not a good design for an infantryman and even America adopted the Garand over the Pedersen. During the entire 1930s the Japanese military had many competitions to create a semi-auto rifle but they all failed, another design the Japanese tried to make was the Czech ZH-29. When the Second Sino Japanese War started all these semi-auto trials got ended but by the end of WW2 the Japanese had tried to reverse engineer the Garand and had a prototype called the Type 5 rifle, a Garand with a 10 round magazine that fired 7.7x58 but again it was not reliable.
# 1: more Katanas, not every GI had the chance to get one 😉
Maybe a STG44 "Nihon no totsugeki jū" or similar
Japanese military planners were WAY too conservative in their designs and it caught up to them.
Just a question - The photo of the Japanese soldier who is sitting and holding a machinegun - What is he wearing in the "pouch" on his left side ? Is this a small mortar ?
Thanks
Intersting point, would like to know that, too.
its a small katana style bayonet , the type 100 came with a bayonet for banzai charges. Although it was kinda pointless by 1942. Japanese soldiers also had bayonets for their LMG's
These are signal flags in a case.
5. Japanese Pedersen rifle. (IJA brass would rage about "wasted ammunition"...like the U.S. Board of Officers.)
4. Shisei No. Hei-Manual, Second Model. (A Japanese SVT? Hmm.)
3. Shisei Type Hei Automatic Rifle [1934]. (The failure of Japanese logistics to supply troops in the field argues against it.)
2. Tokyo Arsenal Model 1927. (The 8mm Nambu pistol cartridge was too low powered.)
1. Nanbu IIB SMG [1936]. (See above.)
Pretty sure the Hei is pronounced Hay(Hey) but is spelled as Hei :-)
Hey e, i is pronounced as an e
Congratulations, you didn't forget any allied forces. Something which to this day is infrequent.
Did I miss mention of the Indian Army, a massive effort to support the Empire with the promise of consideration of independence after the war, which was quietly forgotten until forced on the politicians after VJ day
@@JayJayDubya Just read an article of the passing of a British army African soldier who fought in Burma. Another of the forgotten and unappreciated
What about the kiwis and Aussies my American friend,we weren't sitting on are ass eating breakfast like some in 1939.
Man the Japanese high command was really stupid😂
Look at our command then
Today here in America the Americans trooper's are having the same problems with our own political leaders who still think it's the 1970s
When you say “should” of used there are things like limited materials or the navy taking more steel from the army, and they don’t have same industrial capacity if they wanted it but wouldn’t be able to mass produce easily
They could of used the resources set aside for the military for these weapons. Your reasoning mostly applies to vehicles and artillery for the ground forces (not wanting to divert resources away from the navy and air force was the actual reasons for not investing into their ground forces for better vehicles and artillery). Honestly its typical thinking of Japanese higher ups and old Japanese men in positions of power. Same reason why they blundered Pearl Habour (yes Pearl Habour was a botched job, and they all knew it was a mistake long before they even attacked), and you can still see the same kind of thinking in Japanese companies today.
Made millions of rifles
Could have built semi autos
" should've used"
The Pedersen rifle is tops!
Good luck with oiling every single round.
I don't want to be a spoilsport here but this soldier in your thumbnail doesn't seem to be Japanese at all. That big sheathed blade he carries looks like Takasago combat knife, typically used by native Formosan [Taiwanese] volunteers.
read your comments sometime .
UA-cam doesn't notify me of most comments on my videos, only the most recent ones show up in my comment notification box.
Semi auto battle rifles weren't a good investment since they could only be used for ww2. Especially since the stg44, Johnson, sks and ak47 were on the horizon of being invented.
What they needed was mass produced machine guns in each squad until the latter were developed. The t99 lmg was only 1 or 2 per platoon. It was a rarity.
The Japanese had light machine guns
Usual nonsense.
1. They were financially broke, so no new stuff was fast-tracked. 2. Their military services were politically deadlocked and directly competed for resources, so totally inefficient. 3. The bulk of their soldiers were barely literate farm boys inexperienced with machinery, so everything had to be SIMPLE. They never stood a chance.
The Japanese were alright with bolt action rifles I believe they needed a better heavy light machine gun if they had 30 000 mg 42 with with ammo had properly trained 3 man teams they would of brought hell to opposing allied forces. One more thing they needed was a medium tank maybe a mk 4 panzer with a 75 mm gun or 75 mm tank destroyers even on there islands if they had a dozen 88 mm German flak guns some for air craft some for landing it would of been carnage for the allies
アジアの土地で大型で重量のある戦車を運用するのは豊富な後方支援がなければ難しい、また8.8cm砲は800門ほど生産を行った
Did a pretty good job with what they had
I think the first thing Japan needed to change is their fighting tactics. Banzai charges is just a waste of manpower.
During the interwar period of 1920-30s, all of the majo powers went into the research & development of the self-loading service rifles. But UK and Japan have eventually left the project behind. In case of Britain, their demand was too high. So none of their trial models passed their test. In case of Japan, they gave it up due their limited industrial capacity. Autoloaders are bigger eaters of ammo. And they thought they can never produce enough rounds to feed their future weapons. They have not developed any military autoloader of their own until 1964. It was called Type 64(AKA Howa Type 64). Howa is its makers's name. It is regarded pretty accurate. But its selector switch/manual safety is located on the right side of the weapon. And it must be pulled out to change the setting. Not very popular among the grunts
Had the industry
The generals didn’t like semi autos like many American generals and marine officers
Do you even know what your talking about
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