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An example of this competition was the Army Type 4 20 cm rocket launcher and the 20 cm Naval Rocket Launcher. [2] The Type 4 20cm rocket mortar was developed in the final stages of World War II by the Japanese Army Technical Bureau, as a low-cost, easy to produce weapon, which had an advantage of greater accuracy over conventional mortars.
An example of this competition was the Army Type 4 20 cm rocket launcher and the 20 cm naval rocket launcher. [3] The 20 cm naval rocket launcher was developed in the final stages of World War II by the Japanese Navy, as a low-cost, easy to produce weapon for use by naval troops as a last-ditch weapon for the defense of Japanese occupied islands.
The Type 4 70 mm AT rocket launcher was a Japanese rocket launcher used during the last year of World War II. It was to be used in the Japanese mainland in case of an invasion by the Allies . It was comparable to the German Panzerschreck and the American bazooka .
Introduced in 1999, it is the only domestically produced submachine gun of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force. It is derived from the Uzi. [6] Assault rifles and battle rifles Howa Type 89: Assault rifle: 5.56×45mm NATO Japan: Service rifle, entered service in 1989. Howa Type 64: Battle rifle: 7.62×51mm NATO Japan: Service rifle, entered ...
The Type 89 grenade discharger (八 九 式 重 擲弾筒, Hachikyū-shiki jū-tekidantō), inaccurately and colloquially known as a knee mortar by Allied forces, is a Japanese grenade launcher or light mortar that was widely used in the Pacific Theater of World War II. It got the nickname the "knee mortar" because of an erroneous Allied belief ...
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]
The bombs and the booster were placed at the end of the trough and a wooden spacer was placed between the booster and the bomb. [1] After a few seconds, the booster burnt out and dropped away while the bomb continued on its course. The Type 10's range was limited to 1,200 m (1,300 yd).
In the center of the nose cap, there was a socket for a blasting cap that was electrically ignited by an umbilical cord that attached to the booster through a hole in the adapter sleeve. [ 3 ] Type 21/Type 22 rocket-bombs were launched from crude V-shaped metal troughs similar to those used for the 19 cm rocket motors.