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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. [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.
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 Imperial Japanese Navy deployed the 12 Senchi 28 Rensō Funshinhō (十二糎二八連装噴進砲, "12 cm, 28 tubes rocket launcher"), a specially built rocket launcher, on a number of aircraft carriers and battleships during 1944-1945, with the type first seeing action in October 1944. It was also emplaced at Kure Navy Yard to provide ...
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 ...
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.
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 Type 91 10 cm howitzer (九一式十糎榴弾砲, Kyūisshiki Jyūsenchi Ryūdanhō) was a 105 mm (4.13 in) howitzer used by the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II as the standard Japanese light howitzer. The Type 91 10 cm howitzer was designed by the French company Schneider during the late 1920s ...