The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 mark and '17.2' (December 1942). The barrel has machined cooling fins for half its length towards the muzzle. The barrel jacket has larger cooling fins from the receiver to approximately half way along the barrel. The cone shape flash suppressor is missing from the muzzle. It is fed by a Hotchkiss design 30 round ammunition strip which is lubricated by an oiler to assist with cartridge extraction.
The Japanese Type 92 Heavy Machine Gun was commonly referred to as the 'woodpecker' due to the noise it made when fired.
All blued metal construction except for the wooden downward hinging traverse handles. The receiver has Japanese characters on the top indicating the Type 92 with the serial number, the Kokura arsenal
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
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
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
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
Type 92 Heavy Machine Gun. All blued metal construction except for the wooden downward hinging traverse handles. The receiver has Japanese characters on the top indicating the Type 92 with the serial