The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Type 92 (Lewis) aircraft machine gun. The air cooled barrel does not have the tubular steel jacket and aluminium cooling fins. The receiver has a wooden pistol grip trigger assembly and there is a leather covered spade grip at the rear. A crude bipod has been attached to the barrel for ground use. The sights are missing from this weapon.
This type of gun would have originally been fitted to Japanese Navy aircraft on a flexible mount but it has been modified for ground use with a bipod.
Type 92 (Lewis) aircraft machine gun. The air cooled barrel does not have the tubular steel jacket and aluminium cooling fins. The receiver has a wooden pistol grip trigger assembly and there is a lea
Type 97 Aircraft Machine Gun. All steel rectangular riveted box construction body with a drilled air cooled barrel jacket and a right hand cocking handle. It has been modified for ground use having a
Type 98 Aircraft Machine Gun. Tubular receiver with a wood rear cover and pistol grip. The breech is stamped with the Nagoya arsenal mark 18.7 (1943 July) and the serial number. It has a straight bar
Type 89 Aircraft Machine Gun. Plain air cooled barrel with a right side recoil piston assembly that makes the weapon look like it has two barrels. The right hand straight cocking lever is attached to
Type 92 Heavy Machine Gun. All blued metal construction except for the wooden downward hinging traverse handles. The receiver is marked with the serial number, the Kokura arsenal triple ring trade mar
Type 92 Heavy Machine Gun. All blued metal construction except for the wooden downward hinging traverse handles. The receiver is stamped on the top with three Japanese characters indicating Type 92 an