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Type 4 70 mm AT rocket launcher, disassembled. The launcher was made in two parts that were joined in the middle, similar to the US 3.5-inch rocket launcher. It was designed to be fired by a soldier while prone. The weapon itself had a bipod similar to the one on the Type 99 LMG. The gunner lay with his body at approximately a 45-degree angle ...
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.
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.
The Type 4 40cm rocket was restricted to launch via standardized fixed wooden troughs which were largely constructed by Japanese Army garrison toops, and not steel tubes like the Type 4 20cm rocket mortar. During 1945 construction of the fixed wooden launchers outpaced actual production of the Type 4 40cm rocket.
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 first units were used successfully during the Battle of Peleliu in 1944. [3] The 20 cm naval rocket was a ...
25 mm Rocket Gun Launcher; 80 mm Anti-Tank Rocket Launcher; 100 mm Anti-Tank Rocket Launcher; 120 mm Rocket Launcher; 120 mm Six-Rocket Launcher; 200 mm Rocket Launcher Model 1; 200 mm Rocket Launcher Model 2; 200 mm Rocket Launcher Model 3; 450 mm Heavy Rocket Launcher; Type 6 Ground Use Bomb Projection Rocket Launcher Model 11
The first prototype was completed in late 1944 and taken to the Imperial Japanese Army Academy for testing. Although testing indicated that it would be an effective weapon, it was expensive to produce, and the Japanese Army Technical Bureau shifted its attention to self-propelled multiple rocket launchers instead, which were easier to produce ...
The MXY-7 Navy Suicide Attacker Ohka was a manned flying bomb that was usually carried underneath a Mitsubishi G4M2e Model 24J "Betty" bomber to within range of its target. . On release, the pilot would first glide towards the target and when close enough he would fire the Ohka ' s three solid-fuel rockets, one at a time or in unison, [4] and fly the missile towards the ship that he intended ...