The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Type 97 Aircraft Machine Gun. All steel rectangular riveted box construction body with a drilled air cooled barrel jacket and a left hand cocking handle. The feed block is fitted but the front top cover on the receiver and the breech block are missing. Overall surface rust.
This type of weapon was basically a copy of the Vickers Class E gun and usually fitted in fixed positions in Japanese Navy aircraft.
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 97 Aircraft Machine Gun. A licenced copy of the Vickers Class E machine gun, firing a 7.7 mm x 56 mm rimmed round. All steel rectangular riveted box construction body with a drilled air cooled b
Japanese Browning Type I Aircraft Machine Gun. Rivetted steel rectangular box section receiver with an air cooled barrel that is covered with a drilled jacket. The top plate is marked with the Nagoya
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
Vickers Mk I* Aircraft Machine Gun. Rectangular steel box section construction with an air cooled fluted barrel jacket that has three rows of nine louvres near the receiver body and a cut out front pa
The MG 08/15 Maxim aircraft machine gun is a short recoil operated, air cooled, full automatic, belt fed weapon. The operating system uses a two part toggle lock connected by a hinge which is located