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To: C19fan
Hesitate to disagree with you, C19Fan - but the Type 99 Nambu light machinegun was superb and more than made up for Japan's choice of 8mm pistols.

I am a particular fan of their Type 89 50mm Grenade Projector ("Knee Mortar"): fired a 1 1/4 pound spin-stabilized round with almost a pound of TNT filler and excellent fragmentation out to 325 meters accurately. According to some sources, accounted for nearly 60% of our Pacific War casualties. Darn thing could also fire their standard hand grenade by adding a screw-on booster out to 150m. We need a new version of that thing right now.

8 posted on 04/13/2017 12:11:09 PM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: Chainmail

What I remember about that was Allied soldiers took the “knee” part of it seriously and tried to fire captured examples with the thing braced against their leg. Tough way to get a broken femur.


25 posted on 04/13/2017 4:39:06 PM PDT by PLMerite (Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen)
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