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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. [1]
Pages in category "World War II infantry weapons of Japan" ... List of Japanese military equipment of World War II; 0–9. Type 10 grenade; 7×20mm Nambu; 8×22mm Nambu;
Type 11 70 mm infantry mortar; Type 94 90 mm infantry mortar; Type 96 150 mm infantry mortar; Type 97 81 mm infantry mortar; Type 97 90 mm infantry mortar; Type 97 150 mm infantry mortar; Type 99 81 mm infantry mortar; Type 2 120 mm infantry mortar; Type 98 50 mm mortar; 15 cm heavy mortar; Type 14 27 cm heavy mortar; Type 98 32 cm spigot mortar
In the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA), the term Gun, literally meaning "army", was used in a different way to the military forces of other countries. A So-Gun , meaning "General Army", was the term used in the IJA for an army group .
This is a list of the Japanese armoured fighting vehicles of World War II. This list includes vehicles that never left the drawing board; prototype models and production models from after World War I, into the interwar period and through the end of the Second World War.
Type 92 battalion gun captured and used by USMC on Saipan Type 92 battalion gun captured on Guadalcanal. The Type 92 battalion gun (九二式歩兵砲, Kyūni-shiki Hoheihō) was a 70mm (2.75 in) light howitzer used by the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. [3]
Nomenclature note: In the West, Japanese equipment is commonly referred to as "Type XX", rather than "Model XX". In the case of a firearm, "model" is a more accurate interpretation of the SHIKI (式) character, but the word "type" has become well-established by collectors for decades.
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