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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 War II in 1945.
Type 38 rifle. Type 44 carbine. Type 92 heavy machine gun. Type 93 150 mm infantry mortar. Type 93/Type 100 flamethrower. Hamada Type pistol. Type 94 Nambu pistol. Type 94 90 mm infantry mortar. Type 96 light machine gun.
Arisaka. The Arisaka rifle (Japanese: 有坂銃, romanized: Arisaka-jū) is a family of Japanese military bolt-action service rifles, which were produced and used since approximately 1897, when it replaced the Murata rifle (村田銃, Murata-jū) family, until the end of World War II in 1945. The most common models include the Type 38 chambered ...
5,000 m (5,500 yd) The Type 11 37 mm infantry support gun (十一年式平射歩兵砲, Jyūiichinen-shiki Heisha hoheihō) was an infantry support gun used by the Imperial Japanese Army in the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. [ 1] The Type 11 designation was given to this gun as it was accepted in the 11th year of Emperor Taishō 's ...
Detonation. mechanism. Blasting cap [1] The Shitotsubakurai (Japanese: 刺突爆雷) or lunge mine was a suicidal anti-tank weapon developed and used by the Empire of Japan during the Second World War. It used a HEAT type charge. This weapon was used by the CQC units of the Imperial Japanese Army. The weapon itself was a conical hollow charge ...
The Japanese Army, noting that grenades were short-ranged weapons, began efforts to optimize these weapons for close-in infantry fighting. After studying employment of grenades and mortars on the battlefield, the Japanese Army developed hand grenades, rifle grenades, and grenade and mortar shell dischargers (small mortars) suited to warfare in typical short-range combat environments such as ...
30-round Hotchkiss-type metal strip. The Type 92 heavy machine gun (九二式重機関銃, Kyūni-shiki jū-kikanjū) is a Japanese heavy machine gun, related to the Hotchkiss machine gun series. It entered service in 1932 and was the standard Japanese heavy machine gun used during World War II. The Type 92 was similar in design to the earlier ...
30-round, hopper system using 6x 5-round stripper clips. Sights. Iron. The Type 11 light machine gun (十一年式軽機関銃, Jyūichinen-shiki Kei-kikanjū) was a light machine gun used by the Imperial Japanese Army in the interwar period and during World War II. [3] Adopted as the Imperial Japanese Army's first light machine gun, the Type ...