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Weapons · Japan · 1939-1945

Type 99 Rifle (Arisaka)

infantry rifle

The bolt-action Type 99 replaced the older 6.5mm Type 38 with a more powerful 7.7mm round and was Japan's standard infantry rifle through most of the Pacific war. Late-war 'last ditch' models, made as raw materials ran short, dropped features like the anti-aircraft sights and monopod but remained mechanically sound. About 3.5 million were produced across nine arsenals in Japan, Manchuria and Korea.

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caliber7.7x58mm Arisaka
weight3.79 kg
actionbolt-action
produced~3,500,000

Pacific, China, Burma and India

Japanese Type 99 carbine, Fort Lewis Military Museum, Fort Lewis, Washington, USA. Part of a display of the weapons of the Korean War.
Japanese Type 99 carbine, Fort Lewis Military Museum, Fort Lewis, Washington, USA. Part of a display of the weapons of the Korean War.Joe Mabel · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source
The sight tower of an early Arisaka Type 99 rifle (antiaircraft sights intact, deployed).
The sight tower of an early Arisaka Type 99 rifle (antiaircraft sights intact, deployed).WardenWolf · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source
This is a full view of the Type 99 Arisaka's bayonet
This is a full view of the Type 99 Arisaka's bayonetThe original uploader was BenDibble at English Wikipedia. · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source

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