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Only Japanese Special Forces Group. [27] H&K MP7: Personal defense weapon: HK 4.6×30mm Germany: Only Japanese Special Forces Group. [28] Assault rifles and battle rifles M4 carbine: Assault rifle: 5.56×45mm NATO United States: Only Japanese Special Forces Group. [29] FN SCAR: Assault rifle: 5.56×45mm NATO Belgium: Only Japanese Special ...
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.
Russo-Japanese war weapons of Japan (15 P) S. Samurai weapons and equipment (7 C, 49 P) Spears of Japan (7 P) W. Weapons of Okinawa (12 P) World War I Japanese ...
The Japanese generals had made a mistake in their assessment of the tanks used against China, a country whose army had few tanks or antitank weapons. [40] By 1937, Japan fielded 1,060 tanks in 8 regiments, but most were designed for and used in an infantry support role.
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The name tanegashima came from the island where a Chinese junk with Portuguese adventurers on board was driven to anchor by a storm. The lord of the Japanese island Tanegashima Tokitaka (1528–1579) purchased two matchlock muskets from the Portuguese and put a swordsmith to work in copying the matchlock barrel and firing mechanism.
The weapon was designed by the then-recently established Imperial Japanese Navy Technical Department, which favored the regnal era naming scheme. Design work commenced in 1919 and was completed the same year; in service 1920.
A kusarigama (Japanese: 鎖鎌, lit. "chain-sickle") is a traditional Japanese weapon that consists of a kama (the Japanese equivalent of a sickle or billhook) on a kusari-fundo – a type of metal chain (kusari) with a heavy iron weight (fundo) at the end. The kusarigama is said to have been developed during the Muromachi period.