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An artillery fuze or fuse is the type of munition fuze used with artillery munitions, typically projectiles fired by guns (field, anti-aircraft, coast and naval), howitzers and mortars. A fuze is a device that initiates an explosive function in a munition, most commonly causing it to detonate or release its contents, when its activation ...
The Type 97 medium tank Chi-Ha (九七式中戦車 チハ, Kyunana-shiki chu-sensha chiha) was the most widely produced Japanese medium tank of World War II, with about 25 mm thick armor on its turret sides, and 30 mm on its gun shield, considered average protection in the 1930s.
The 70 mm rocket, like the 20 cm model, used a mortar fuze. There would be no set back when the rocket was fired to arm an artillery fuze. The Japanese mortar fuze for the 81 mm and 90 mm used a shear wire to make it bore safe. The wire went through the brass body and aluminum firing pin plunger.
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]
Mk I and Mk III powders are ammunition primers, Mk II is a fuze primer Potassium chlorate Antimony trisulfide: Primer cap composition: Both-Most common mixture for fuze primers Mercury fulminate: Initiator in fuzes and blasting caps: Both: Raikoo (Thunder Mercury) Lead azide: Initiator in fuzes and blasting caps: Both: Chikka Namari: Most ...
Pages in category "World War II artillery of Japan" The following 49 pages are in this category, out of 49 total. ... Type 1 47 mm anti-tank gun; Type 10 120 mm AA gun;
The Type 4 20 cm rocket mortar (四式二十糎噴進砲, Yonshiki nijū-senchi funshinhō) was a 203 mm rocket mortar used by the Imperial Japanese Army in the final stages of World War II. Development and design
A 16th-century swivel breech-loading Japanese cannon, called an Ōzutsu (大筒, "Big Pipe"). Due to its proximity with China, Japan had long been familiar with gunpowder. Primitive cannons seem to have appeared in Japan around 1270, as simple metal tubes invented in China and called Teppō (鉄砲 Lit. "Iron cannon").