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U.S. Navy. Via Francillon (1979)
| Ammunition type |
7.7 x 58 SR with AP, ball, HE, incendiary, or tracer rounds |
| Projectile
Weight |
0.4 ounce or 11.3 grams (AP) 0.35 ounce or 9.8 grams (incendiary) |
| Velocity | 2660 feet per second 811 meters per secod |
| Range | 1970 feet 600 meters |
| Rate of
fire |
900 rounds per minute |
| Weight |
28 lbs 12.7 kg |
| Gun power |
16 |
The Type 89 Model 2 machine gun was used as a fixed weapon on Japanese fighters throughout the war. The original Type 89, manufactured from 1930 to 1940, was a license-built copy of the Vickers E gun
rechambered for the improved 7.7 x 58 SR Type 89 cartridge. During
1938-1940 the Japanese heavily revised the design as the Type 89 kai or Model 2, which was manufactured from 1940 on.
The gun had a short recoil toggle locked action
and was
fed from a disintegrating metal link belt. It synchronized well but was
also used as a wing gun and, as the Te-1, as a remote-controlled tail
gun in the Ki-21 Sally.
References
Williams and Gustin (2003)The Pacific War Online Encyclopedia © 2007, 2009, 2013 by Kent G. Budge. Index
