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Both the pistol itself, and the round it fired, are smaller than the other Nambu pistols, leading to the name "Baby" Nambu. [14] Type B Nambus were produced at the Tokyo Artillery Arsenal. [ 15 ] The first 450 models have the bottom part of the magazine made of wood, and only one diameter firing pin, but later Type Bs have the magazine made ...
The Type 94 Nambu pistol was designed by Kijiro Nambu after he retired from the Japanese army and founded the Nambu Rifle Manufacturing Company. [5] Design of the Type 94 Nambu pistol commenced in 1929 with the goal of reducing the bulk and price of previous Nambu designs. [3]
Type A 8 mm Nambu pistol: Nambu 8×22mm Nambu: 50 [15] 1925 [14] 400,000~ [16] 0.900 Reduced-cost version of Type A - Nambu Type 19 "North China" pistol [17] Pistol: Sidearm: Short recoil, locked breech: Empire of Japan: Type 14 8 mm Nambu pistol: Nambu 8×22mm Nambu: 1944 [18] 100~ 1.106 Reliability improvements of Type 14, occupied Chinese ...
Known as the Meiji 26 Nen Ken Ju (meaning 'Pistol, pattern of the 26th year of the Meiji era'), [3] the Type 26 revolver was the first indigenous revolver adopted by the Japanese military. [2] The Type 26 was produced to replace the aging Smith & Wesson New Model No. 3 [ 4 ] and was officially adopted March 29, 1894. [ 5 ]
The Nambu Type 90 was a flare gun of Japanese origin and manufactured by Nambu. It was used by the Imperial Japanese Navy [3] and came with two or three barrels. [4] [5] The Type 90 designation is from the last two digits of its year of adoption, which was 2590 (or 1930 AD) on the Japanese Kōki calendar. It first came with three barrels with ...
According to Rottman, the Type 96 was a slightly modified copy of the ZB vz.26 despite claims to the contrary, [9] while US military manuals note that the gun combined the features of both the Hotchkiss machine gun and the ZB vs. 26. [10] Ness notes that the Type 96 featured a unique bolt lock system designed by Kijiro Nambu. [11]
The development of three handguns had been promoted at the same time in parallel: .32 ACP caliber semi-automatic pistols, 9×19mm Parabellum caliber semi-automatic pistols, and .38 Special caliber revolvers. Semi-automatic pistols were completed as New Nambu M57, but both of them did not enter into mass production. On the other hand, the ...
The 7×20mm Nambu is a rimless, bottleneck handgun cartridge designed in Japan for use in the Type B or "Baby" model Nambu pistol. [1] The cartridge is a scaled-down version of the 8×22mm Nambu used in all other Nambu pistol models. It has a muzzle energy greater than that of the .25 ACP and closer to the .32 ACP.