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The 6.5×50mmSR Arisaka (designated as the 6,5 × 51 R (Arisaka) by the C.I.P. [1]) is a semi-rimmed rifle cartridge with a 6.705 mm (.264 in) diameter bullet. It was the standard Japanese military cartridge from 1897 until the late 1930s for service rifles and machine guns when it was gradually replaced by the 7.7×58mm Arisaka.
6.5×42mm, also known as 6.5 MPC (Multi Purpose Cartridge), centerfire rifle cartridge; 6.5×47mm Lapua, smokeless powder rimless bottlenecked rifle cartridge; 6.5×50mmSR Arisaka, Japanese military cartridge; 6.5×52mm Mannlicher–Carcano, Italian military cartridge; 6.5×53mmR, Dutch and Romanian military cartridge
However, while on par with the Norwegian and Italian 6.5 mm military cartridges of the time, the 6.5×50mm was not as powerful as several others in use by other nations. The Type 38 at 128 cm (50.4 in) was the longest rifle of the war, due to the emphasis on bayonet training for the Japanese soldier of the era, whose average height was 160 ...
Unlike those, the Type I was designed from the ground up for Japanese forces. It was based on the Type 38 rifle and utilized a Carcano action, but retained the Arisaka/Mauser type 5-round box magazine. [6] It was chambered for the 6.5 x 50 mm cartridge. [1]
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The Type 3 heavy machine gun (三年式重機関銃, San-nen-shiki juu-kikanjuu), also known as the Taishō 14 machine gun, [1] was a Japanese air-cooled heavy machine gun. The Type 3 heavy machine gun was in a long-line of Japanese Hotchkiss machine gun variants that the Imperial Japanese Army would utilize from 1901 to 1945.
The 6.5 mm (.264 caliber) has been extremely popular in Europe and especially in the Scandinavian countries and this trend continues today. [5] The 6.5×52mm Carcano, 6.5×53mmR (.256 Mannlicher), 6.5×54mm Mannlicher-Schönauer, 6.5×55mm Swedish Mauser, 6.5×58mmR Krag–Jørgensen and the 6.5×58mm Portuguese are among these cartridges of originally military European origin.
5mm Bergmann; 5mm Clement; 5 mm/35 SMc; 6 mm caliber; 6 mm XC; 6.5-06 A-Square; 6.5-284 Norma; 6.5×58mm Vergueiro; 6.5mm Bergmann; 6.5mm Creedmoor; 6.5mm Grendel; 6.5mm Remington Magnum; 6.5×25mm CBJ; 6.5×47mm Lapua; 6.5×50mmSR Arisaka; 6.5×52mm Carcano; 6.5×53mmR; 6.5×54mm Mannlicher–Schönauer; 6.5×55mm Swedish; 6.5×57mm Mauser; 6. ...