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For the LMG/MMG a high rate of fire is not actually ideal, the main goal is to lay consistent fire down range to keep the target suppressed for as long as possible. Take note of the M2 browning’s rate of fire vs. the nearly identical (on aircraft) AN/M2 with a far higher RoF
For those who commenting about this gun Horrible compared to other HMG, i hope you guys watch AZ Guns and forgotten weapons video, this gun may lack the typical rate of fire of standart HMG, but this gun is very accurate even in long range (and yes it came with a scope), can be fire continously without afraid of overheating and its recoil almost non existant because of its weight and small caliber ammo plus its tripod......
yeah, it seems like a well made gun for what it is, it was just really stupid of them to use those 30 round clip things even though belts were objectively better and had already existed for years at that point.
@CaptHawkeye This MG was not design to shoot at incoming angry marines. This gun was developed to counter the chinese in China downtown, not in jungles or rocky islands.
Im told the problem with them was reliability, you had to be constantly oiling it or it just wouldn't feed. The other issue being feeding itself, if you want to continuously fire on a position you need a second person to load the clips into the gun as its firing, that person could be better spent.
@@mascadadelpantion8018 Japanese light machinegun type 99, and to some degree its predecessor type 96 was prbly one of the best used by any nation in ww2
@CaptHawkeye it's a heavy machine gun with a slow fire rate, lack of stopping power and a ridiculously small magazine capacity that is incredibly prone to failures. The chauchet of WWII
@Cameron Campbell it's more for logistic and their use. Mostly because small round are much less heavy, cheaper to manufacture, and easier to handle the recoil of. Plus the fact that light project tend to tumble in soft targets.
That's how it got the nickname 'woodpecker'. When you insert a full 30-round strip the heavy end pulls it down and causes the feeding to slow down a little. The fire rate would speed up once reaches about half the strip or so.
ネプギアGO We load our own ammo for this firearm. The powered loads were all hot because she doesn’t like to fire with regular war era ammo. We did fire in multiple bursts but she does have a very slow rate of fire.
A lot of people in the comments don't seem to know much about machine guns. A low fire rate makes the gun easier to control, keeps it cooler for longer, and conserves ammo. The ammo conservation is especially important if your country has relatively limited industrial capacity and resources and can't produce ammo nearly as fast as a country like the US. It's reasons like these that I believe that the MG42's super high rate of fire was a huge liability. Not only did soldiers have to carry more ammo to keep it running as long as the MG34, but it's large consumption of ammo put more demand on Germany's factories and resources than necessary.
Easier to control? It weighs half a ton and is on a *fucking tripod* "Dont seem to know much about machine guns" while he says "the mg42s super high rate of fire was a huge liability" 😭😭😭
@@marcusfanning7513 1. As for the Type 92, I think you're confusing easier to control with difficult to carry around. Sure, it's heavy. But that weight combined with its relatively slow rate of fire and static position when firing work against the recoil, therefore making it easier to shoot. 2. As for the MG 42, it's a liability in terms of ammo conservation. Shoot long bursts as much as you want towards enemies to keep their heads down, just remember that ammunition isn't forever.
@@paleoph6168 "easier to control" implies good ergonomic function. Generally speaking with any heavy or general purpose machine gun "controllability" as in the video game recoil pattern is going to be negligible regardless of the weapon. Even the Mg42 with it being the wildest of the bunch still has little struggle in terms of "controllability" compared to the sheer concussion of 8mm mauser firing at upwards of 1000rpm beside you as long as you have a bipod to put your weight against and a somewhat heavy weapon. What makes PK pattern machine guns superior to the M240B and essentially any competition it has. Ergonomic function and ease of use which is what I would assume "controllability" implies and not the video game recoil pattern the weapon might have lmao. I dont think anyone is going to give serious consideration to "controllability" when a weapon being lightweight and handy to run around with is the difference between having a suppressive fire base and fiddling with a wieldy contraption while wading in mud and dirt. And as for the MG42, I think its pretty safe to say that if modern western armed forces are still using it to this day it was pretty far ahead of its competition. In conclusion. If its a machine gun. It needs to preform well in the role of... a machine gun... not a DMR but with 10x the weight and poor reliability. The 92 was an atrocious weapon and its users loathed it.
In China, they called this the "Chicken Neck", due to the numerous cooling disks around the barrel resembling the skin folds of a poultry's outer surface of its gullet
Underrated gun. The reason it doesn't have an absurdly high rate of fire like MG 34 and especially MG 42 is because it's optimized for ground combat, unlike the German guns which must perform multiple roles including Anti-Air defense.
It largely just comes down to different countries' different philosophies on combat. The German's generally focused heavily on fire superiority throughout WW2, while the Japanese had more of a focus on marksmanship, skill, honor, things like that.
@CaptHawkeye Okay but you do realize that what you said about the germans is essentially what I said, just more detailed right? Fire superiority could be used for various purposes, including but not limited to area denial as you pointed out. My point was that if you look at the German philosophy for all weaponry in WWII, it was to have the biggest, strongest, most technologically advanced, and most scary weapons to deal with. While Japanese weapons were much more conventional/old fashioned, even for the time. Not just because of money issues, or trouble finding people who would sell to them, but because the Japanese army's philosophy on warfare was far different from really... anyone else's at the time. They had a focus on grit, heart, and the skill of the user, rather than the weapon itself. Though obviously this was an outdated way to look at warfare even all those years ago.
@CaptHawkeye Because it wasn't necessary to write as much as you are for a simple concept. The idea that Germany didn't have more technologically advanced weaponry is just stupid. The Schwerer Gustav. V-1 and V-2 rockets. Tiger I and II. I could go on ad nauseum. Yes the main ranks were built up of forces not too dissimilar from ours. But the idea that the German's were not heavily focused on technological advancement, just by looking at the difference in sheer volume/success rate of new and experimental weapon systems they designed/fielded over the course of the war is just ridiculous. They fielded several different generations of several different tanks in a way that none of the allies, bar the soviets could have matched. Yes the tactics, and the tenacity of their armored divisions were important, but part of why it was so successful, was because those tanks were ahead of the curve. I'm not going to sit here boring myself with writing much more. I made my point, and it shouldn't be such a jarring one that I have to write this much to prove it. It's pretty common knowledge, or at least it should be.
@CaptHawkeye Yes, I was making a point, and you know that I was, but you can play that angle if you want to. I already said I was going to stop. Don't try to mic drop me afterwards like you're some nostradamus in a youtube comment section.
The Woodpecker! Met with an Iwo Jimo veteran at his home 5 years ago to interview him. His time on the island was short, he was shot through the thigh by one of these bad boys and laid in a shell crater overnight until an evac landing craft rescued him
Lot of people on here very willing to pass judgement on guns that they know nothing about. It's not the greatest HMG but the engineers who built it weren't dunces, it is extremely reliable from its firing to its loading mechanism.
People: this gun WORST. It has a slow fire rate. Me: it saves alot of your ammo and can constantly shoot for along time without overheating. BRILLIANT.
Inb4 30 round clips making it useless for a HMG role. It's more of a tripod mounted sniper then a heavy machine gun. Accuracy isn't really something to worry about because the point of a machine gun is to lay down suppresive fire.
@@xxxxxx5868 Type 92's come with a crew, and the loader is gonna continuously push in strips which the machine gun will just accept without having to cycle the bolt again. So you can have an accurate and long lasting suppressive fire
@@xxxxxx5868 Same I don’t disagree with you. The gun wasn’t the worst but it was something the Japanese were stuck with since they couldn’t really divert resources to developing a new HMG during wartime. Certainly better than anything the Italians had lol
this gun is awkwardly the possibly most competent gun in the japanese small firearm list. one would probably more willing to carry this around than the stupid type 11.
The type 96 lmg was great. I don't really see the problem with their 6.5 bolt guns either, the nambu is a tiny gun but not ineffective. This HMG was effective enough.
@@thewerepyreking the nanbu had a knack for exploding in your face so I'd say it was very ineffective. The Japanese had fine weapons for fighting in that era, they did plenty well against the Chinese, British, Dutch, French etc. Its just Americans had weapons that were better than all the conventional powers.
@@omni5640 I mostly agree, pretty much everything in the small arms (Japanese navy and air force were initially way better, American funds were diverted to Europe and the Japanese had great planes) department was objectively better except for maybe the American m1 flamethrower which was immediately replaced, and the BAR compared to the japanese LMGs. Early war, though, remember that Marines stormed the beaches with bolt action rifles and without much air superiority. The bastards of Bataan went through hell. Thank god for American industrial capacity, their fighting wasn't in vain. I meant the Type 14 Nambu, and I can't find anything online that mentions disastrous explosions, only reliability that was definitely worsened late-war. If you mean the Type 94, it might suck but I don't see anything about it exploding in your face, only things about accidental fires if it's not on safe, since the breech is on the outside or something
@@yamingoat it was good as a bolt action rifle but the Muricans had m1 garand, which was superior against it in the jungle. At that stage of the war, Japanese had to resort to some suicidal tactics to at least keep up with the marines, including the notorious banzai charge and boomstick.
The concept of type 92 is quite different from that of MG42. Type 92 is some sort of fast repeating sniper rifle. This is because Japanese industrial base was smaller than other countries, though human resource (number) is rich.
I don’t see exactly how this is bad, sure it’s got a slow rate of fire, but it looks like it hits like a truck and from what I’ve heard is an especially accurate and precise weapon, to the point where it came with a fucking scope.
@@klown463 Doesn't really help if there are wave of enemies, a faster fire rate is better than being able to shoot for a few minutes longer, and not to mention the M2's barrel could be changed fairly quickly. Not to mention it has much worse penetration than a .50 cal, meaning its useless against enemies behind trees, sandbags, bricks, vehicles, and light tanks, while the .50 cal can through through many light tanks at the time, bricks, thick trees, multiple sandbags, multiple bricks, etc, not to mention that the .50 cal is useful as anti air.
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@@mikkel066h but will run without the water. All day long. Get a piece of shrapnel or a bullet threw that water jacket and its over. Will overheat hella fast. The mass alone of the gun makes it more resistant to battlefield hazards.
Not really, you much better off with something with a higher rate of fire, which would allow you to suppress the enemy and prevent then from pushing, not to mention its around 55kgs, yet it shoots a smaller round than the .50. I would take a .50 over this any day because its lighter, barrel swaps are faster and easier, and you can actually go through lightly armored vehicles, trucks, cars, bricks, trees, multiple sandbags, aircraft, etc, meanwhile the 7mm round that this HMG fires cant do any of that very well if at all. If you going to have a HMG, it better either have a high fire rate or a high caliber round that can shoot down aircraft and light tanks. The german's MG42 could easily be switched into a light/medium MG and if mounted in a tripod, a HMG, which a rate of fire around 1300-1400 per minute. It might not be able to go through as many things as the .50 cal can, but its high rate of fire meant you could suppress the enemy from pushing your position, and in the case of D Day, mow down everyone in the landing craft as soon as the ramp opens within seconds. Its high fire rate also made it a somewhat effective AA gun when paired with a second MG42 against scout planes and even some fighter planes.
@@PilotTed Higher rate of fire doesn't mean you suppress people any better than a slower rate of fire. Higher rate of fire though DOES mean that you have less trigger time before you have to reload, going through ammo faster, and accumulating heat and wearing through barrels faster. And the actual practical rate of fire in an actual combat scenario would only be around 150 rpm anyway, similar to other machineguns. Just having a high rate of fire doesn't actually mean much in combat.
@@chaos2876 150 rpm??? Most people can shoot semi auto faster than that, that is literally slower than any WWI machinegun, which on average shot around 600rpm. I am sorry, but somthing shooting at 150 rpm is not going to supress the enemy as much as a machinegun shooting 700rpm, which is a pretty good speed. I dont think MGs should have anything ridiculous like over 1000, but anything under 500 is just too slow. The M4 shoots around 650 in full auto, while the M249 SAW shoots between 700-850. Also, I never said they should hold down the trigger till the ammo depletes or the barrel melts. A good MG gunner shoots a burst of around 7 seconds. I am going to give you the benefit of the doubt that the 150 rpm was referring to sustained fire, which you would be correct, as they are supposed to burst fire which allows them to sustain suppressing the enemy much longer than if they just fired all their ammo in one trigger pull.
@@PilotTed The M4a1 is around 800rpm, and typical sustained bursts are 3 seconds. And you missed the part where i said "practical" rate of fire. Referring to how many rounds you're actually going to be putting downrange in a firefight at the given rate. The M4 has a fire rate of 800 rpm, but practically in an actual combat scenario, you're probably going to hold a rate consistent rate of fire of about 30rpm at max due to a plethora of reasons. And if the MG42 were to hold a 7 second burst, it would go through around 150 rounds. At max you would hold 2 second bursts for the MG42, we're talking 75 round magazines or typically around 200 round belts. Practical rof is different from mechanical rof, and its the entire reason higher rate of fire for infantry weapons is arbitrary, and generally unfavorable.
Isn’t the point of a machine gun to deliver a high volume of fire though? I mean yeah the type 92 is excellent a short extremely accurate bursts but there isn’t a huge use for that
You got this junk posted up in a bunker at hack saw ridge. I hope the crew can snipe on a tripod. The Japanese forces were most likely equipped with older water cooled machine guns procured by the colonial powers. You can't defend a sector with this.
@@derekakaderek the strips are 30 rounds and they are ejected from the gun when empty. How are you getting your hands hurt by the charging handle? The trigger is in the rear like an m2. Theres propaganda footage of the gun firing during ww2. It loads really quick.
All these people saying the big plus side of this gun is that it can fire for longer than other guns without overheating... Yes I'm sure it can fire for a long time without overheating, but I'm sure the others could fire for just as long if you fired the same amount of rounds per minute by burst firing
Actually from what I have read the name came from the American forces. Due to the slow rate of fire the 92 hmg sounded like a woodpecker bird pecking on wood.
Everybody gangster until the M2 flamethrower pull up to burn the mg position out.......Everybody gangster until theres a banzai attack to counter said flamethrower
The Type 92 was deliberately heavy in order to reduce as much recoil and vibration as possible. Everything from the barrel, bolt, and frame were constructed of dense metal in order to make the weapon as steady and stable as possible in any operator's hands. When combined with the numerous cooling fins on the barrel (reducing overheating by almost nothing), the Type 92 was the perfect long-range defensive weapon; you can keep your sightline fixated on a target without worrying about the recoil throwing you all over the place.
@@tavariskaiser6742 as Juan said not at the time for instance depending on configuration the MG-34 and it’s successor the MG-42 could be considered a light machinegun or a heavy machinegun (if mounted on a tripod) the same goes for their predecessors the MG-08 which was a water cooled heavy machinegun despite it only firing 7.92 Mauser.
The Japanese didn't cut corners with their machine guns unlike most of their other arsenal. You can fire this thing continuously until the very barrel itself wears out.
Not gonna lie this gun really isn’t a true hmg like the m2 browning or the dshk. It’s more like a medium machine gun, as it is on a similar level to other guns like the m1919 browning a4, mg42, mg34, and the maxim m1910 in terms of caliber and portability. A true Japanese hmg might be the type 93.
POV: Your at Pelilue, fighting off a Japanese counterattack that involves tanks, a mortar pit on the left, and a truck coming in with troops in the center.
People down playing this Weapon must not know about the dreaded 'Wood Pecker'. These things were deadly and often accented with bursts of LMG fire. Long range, slow firing- these things could hold whole companies and plunging fire over hills made he marines pay dearly across the islands
@@tactical12 i mean i am talk of the people judge this weapon bad cause of reload system look and fire noise they are annoying and act like if they know how make an better weapon
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Actually this gun has a 308 insert in the chamber and is shooting 308. I have had issues not getting enough gas for proper recoil. After using a bore scope it was discovered that a lot of the lands and groves were gone and it was a smooth bore and along with the smaller 308 bullet I am not getting enough gas for proper recoil. I have my barrel at the machine shop as I write. The machinist has bored out the original Japanese barrel and is going to turn down a 1919 browning machine gun 308 chrome lined barrel and press fit it in the original Japanese barrel then pin it in. When its done I will take a video of it shooting. I am keeping my fingers crossed it will work. Glenn
To begin with, the type 92 is not that much slower than the M17 or M60 and rate of fire is overrated anyway, it comes at a price. You burn through ammo at a crazy rate so you have to allocate additional squad members as ammo carriers, barrel overheats quickly and has to be swapped out constantly (remember the asbestos gloves) and is less accurate, especially with a poorly trained gunner. The real advantage of the MG42 was how easy it was to move around and walking fire is perfectly doable. (I base that on personal experience with the MG3 which is essentially a MG42 rechambered for 7.62 Nato)
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Hello everyone. I've noticed how much my videos are blowing up right now. I haven't posted in awhile but will record a video with another Japanese Machine Gun soon. If you want I will also keep posting more videos. Subscribe so you can be notified when more of my videos come out. Thanks!
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Edward Chang This is my dads account and doesn’t log on to it much. And I’m his son replying from my account. This video has been up for almost 2 years and it struggled to get 1,000 views. In 5 days it’s gone over 200k views. Since you commented it has gone up 20k views. We are completely lost for words! But because of this we plan to make more videos of other cool weapons and other things!
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While its RoF might be slow, i distinctly recall that Type 92 can fire constantly for a long time with out over heating.
Yeah the horrendously low rof and strangely small caliber that it shot provided for slow, but accurate and long periods of sustained fire
With lots of jamming
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For the LMG/MMG a high rate of fire is not actually ideal, the main goal is to lay consistent fire down range to keep the target suppressed for as long as possible. Take note of the M2 browning’s rate of fire vs. the nearly identical (on aircraft) AN/M2 with a far higher RoF
@@judgemental9253 yeah but like 50 cal tho
For those who commenting about this gun Horrible compared to other HMG, i hope you guys watch AZ Guns and forgotten weapons video, this gun may lack the typical rate of fire of standart HMG, but this gun is very accurate even in long range (and yes it came with a scope), can be fire continously without afraid of overheating and its recoil almost non existant because of its weight and small caliber ammo plus its tripod......
yeah, it seems like a well made gun for what it is, it was just really stupid of them to use those 30 round clip things even though belts were objectively better and had already existed for years at that point.
I like the type 99 machine gun
@CaptHawkeye This MG was not design to shoot at incoming angry marines. This gun was developed to counter the chinese in China downtown, not in jungles or rocky islands.
Every machine gun overheats, the question is just "when". The Hochkiss-HMG could fire 1000 rounds before you had to change the barrel.
Im told the problem with them was reliability, you had to be constantly oiling it or it just wouldn't feed. The other issue being feeding itself, if you want to continuously fire on a position you need a second person to load the clips into the gun as its firing, that person could be better spent.
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And they apparently used to put scope on this thing during war
An interesting scope at that, both magnified and not
That's one upside of the low fire rate I suppose.
@@todo9633 basically Japanese were given crappy guns and Innovative soldiers found a really good way to use this thing
@@mascadadelpantion8018 Japanese light machinegun type 99, and to some degree its predecessor type 96 was prbly one of the best used by any nation in ww2
I think you've mistaken it with the Type 96 and 99 LMG, this has periscope sight and AA sight
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From his grave?
@@Jomster777 you should've stayed down *boom* go back playing bingo, in HELL!
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@@gosth81 yes
Look at that firing rate, about 100 rounds every 2.5 years
Ahahah
its not that slow, more like 4 years
@@きぶ-q8c too logic
a 7.7mm machine gun that use 30 rounds strip-fed with the weight and firing rate of the M2. No wonder why they always use banzai charge tactic.
MG42：
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“Heavy machine gun.” “Heavy” is putting it lightly. It’s a mini artillery piece.
the weight of an artillery piece without any of the stopping power
@CaptHawkeye what
@CaptHawkeye it's a heavy machine gun with a slow fire rate, lack of stopping power and a ridiculously small magazine capacity that is incredibly prone to failures. The chauchet of WWII
@Cameron Campbell it's more for logistic and their use. Mostly because small round are much less heavy, cheaper to manufacture, and easier to handle the recoil of. Plus the fact that light project tend to tumble in soft targets.
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POV: You're a Japanese imperial soldier in guam fighting off an American charge.
More like you are shooting the same chinese guys for the fifth time
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@@ttchme9816 holy shit xD
They speak very fluent English then.
POV: You're a Japanese soldier in Nanking
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That range looks ALOT like OFAS.
OFAS? More like OFUK
I was the one shooting the gun during this video. It is OFASTS!
@@tactical12 was this during 2020? I figured the rona woulda shut that down but i could be wrong. I wanted to go so bad lol
jackson thompson Yes it was during 2020. The Virus didn’t really have any effect on the turn out.
@@tactical12 damn it i wanted to go so bad this year. And bring some friends cause there is nothing like shooting a machine gun.
Is it just me, or does the rate of fire seem uneven?
Ur totally right
Probably due to crappy ammo, inconsistent powder loads means inconsistent rate of fire
seems like they fired it in a few trigger pulls, not holding it down the whole time
That's how it got the nickname 'woodpecker'. When you insert a full 30-round strip the heavy end pulls it down and causes the feeding to slow down a little. The fire rate would speed up once reaches about half the strip or so.
ネプギアGO We load our own ammo for this firearm. The powered loads were all hot because she doesn’t like to fire with regular war era ammo. We did fire in multiple bursts but she does have a very slow rate of fire.
A lot of people in the comments don't seem to know much about machine guns. A low fire rate makes the gun easier to control, keeps it cooler for longer, and conserves ammo. The ammo conservation is especially important if your country has relatively limited industrial capacity and resources and can't produce ammo nearly as fast as a country like the US. It's reasons like these that I believe that the MG42's super high rate of fire was a huge liability. Not only did soldiers have to carry more ammo to keep it running as long as the MG34, but it's large consumption of ammo put more demand on Germany's factories and resources than necessary.
Easier to control? It weighs half a ton and is on a *fucking tripod*
"Dont seem to know much about machine guns" while he says "the mg42s super high rate of fire was a huge liability" 😭😭😭
@@marcusfanning7513 yes and thats why it was easy to control
You could almost use this thing as an automatic sniper
@@marcusfanning7513
1. As for the Type 92, I think you're confusing easier to control with difficult to carry around. Sure, it's heavy. But that weight combined with its relatively slow rate of fire and static position when firing work against the recoil, therefore making it easier to shoot.
2. As for the MG 42, it's a liability in terms of ammo conservation. Shoot long bursts as much as you want towards enemies to keep their heads down, just remember that ammunition isn't forever.
@@paleoph6168 "easier to control" implies good ergonomic function. Generally speaking with any heavy or general purpose machine gun "controllability" as in the video game recoil pattern is going to be negligible regardless of the weapon. Even the Mg42 with it being the wildest of the bunch still has little struggle in terms of "controllability" compared to the sheer concussion of 8mm mauser firing at upwards of 1000rpm beside you as long as you have a bipod to put your weight against and a somewhat heavy weapon. What makes PK pattern machine guns superior to the M240B and essentially any competition it has. Ergonomic function and ease of use which is what I would assume "controllability" implies and not the video game recoil pattern the weapon might have lmao. I dont think anyone is going to give serious consideration to "controllability" when a weapon being lightweight and handy to run around with is the difference between having a suppressive fire base and fiddling with a wieldy contraption while wading in mud and dirt.
And as for the MG42, I think its pretty safe to say that if modern western armed forces are still using it to this day it was pretty far ahead of its competition.
In conclusion. If its a machine gun. It needs to preform well in the role of... a machine gun... not a DMR but with 10x the weight and poor reliability. The 92 was an atrocious weapon and its users loathed it.
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you can probably snip with this woodpacker haha
In China, they called this the "Chicken Neck", due to the numerous cooling disks around the barrel resembling the skin folds of a poultry's outer surface of its gullet
Underrated gun.
The reason it doesn't have an absurdly high rate of fire like MG 34 and especially MG 42 is because it's optimized for ground combat, unlike the German guns which must perform multiple roles including Anti-Air defense.
It largely just comes down to different countries' different philosophies on combat. The German's generally focused heavily on fire superiority throughout WW2, while the Japanese had more of a focus on marksmanship, skill, honor, things like that.
@CaptHawkeye Okay but you do realize that what you said about the germans is essentially what I said, just more detailed right? Fire superiority could be used for various purposes, including but not limited to area denial as you pointed out. My point was that if you look at the German philosophy for all weaponry in WWII, it was to have the biggest, strongest, most technologically advanced, and most scary weapons to deal with. While Japanese weapons were much more conventional/old fashioned, even for the time. Not just because of money issues, or trouble finding people who would sell to them, but because the Japanese army's philosophy on warfare was far different from really... anyone else's at the time. They had a focus on grit, heart, and the skill of the user, rather than the weapon itself. Though obviously this was an outdated way to look at warfare even all those years ago.
@CaptHawkeye Because it wasn't necessary to write as much as you are for a simple concept. The idea that Germany didn't have more technologically advanced weaponry is just stupid. The Schwerer Gustav. V-1 and V-2 rockets. Tiger I and II. I could go on ad nauseum.
Yes the main ranks were built up of forces not too dissimilar from ours. But the idea that the German's were not heavily focused on technological advancement, just by looking at the difference in sheer volume/success rate of new and experimental weapon systems they designed/fielded over the course of the war is just ridiculous. They fielded several different generations of several different tanks in a way that none of the allies, bar the soviets could have matched. Yes the tactics, and the tenacity of their armored divisions were important, but part of why it was so successful, was because those tanks were ahead of the curve.
I'm not going to sit here boring myself with writing much more. I made my point, and it shouldn't be such a jarring one that I have to write this much to prove it. It's pretty common knowledge, or at least it should be.
@CaptHawkeye Yes, I was making a point, and you know that I was, but you can play that angle if you want to. I already said I was going to stop. Don't try to mic drop me afterwards like you're some nostradamus in a youtube comment section.
The Woodpecker! Met with an Iwo Jimo veteran at his home 5 years ago to interview him. His time on the island was short, he was shot through the thigh by one of these bad boys and laid in a shell crater overnight until an evac landing craft rescued him
Wow, very interesting!
He was lucky to survive without medical attention for so long. Thigh shots can be quite dangerous because of the amount of bleeding.
Lot of people on here very willing to pass judgement on guns that they know nothing about. It's not the greatest HMG but the engineers who built it weren't dunces, it is extremely reliable from its firing to its loading mechanism.
I don't know what it is but I want to hate on this gun so bad that I want twitter to cancel it.
@@AmericanIdiot7659 you are a americanidiot indeed.
@@MrLampes its called a joke
Reliable? Huh... I heard it requires constant oiling and dirt can get around the ammo because it literally doesnt have a fucking magazine lol.
九二式重機関銃まじですこ
People: this gun WORST. It has a slow fire rate.
Me: it saves alot of your ammo and can constantly shoot for along time without overheating. BRILLIANT.
Inb4 30 round clips making it useless for a HMG role. It's more of a tripod mounted sniper then a heavy machine gun. Accuracy isn't really something to worry about because the point of a machine gun is to lay down suppresive fire.
@@xxxxxx5868 Type 92's come with a crew, and the loader is gonna continuously push in strips which the machine gun will just accept without having to cycle the bolt again. So you can have an accurate and long lasting suppressive fire
@@nalapana2129 I'd rather have belts and the 2 men on 2 machine guns
@@xxxxxx5868 Same I don’t disagree with you. The gun wasn’t the worst but it was something the Japanese were stuck with since they couldn’t really divert resources to developing a new HMG during wartime. Certainly better than anything the Italians had lol
Me: It can't be that bad.
Me after watching this: *Oh*
I mean it's machine and it's also a gun, but it's barely a machine gun
@CaptHawkeye don't say it like that, some fragile american will get triggered~
Type 92 is one of the best HMG of WW2 lmao
Not as bad as Italian Breda.
@@derekakaderek tactics ≠ machinegun/weapon efficiency, germans got superior machineguns and still lost the war.
this gun is awkwardly the possibly most competent gun in the japanese small firearm list. one would probably more willing to carry this around than the stupid type 11.
The type 96 lmg was great. I don't really see the problem with their 6.5 bolt guns either, the nambu is a tiny gun but not ineffective. This HMG was effective enough.
@@thewerepyreking the nanbu had a knack for exploding in your face so I'd say it was very ineffective. The Japanese had fine weapons for fighting in that era, they did plenty well against the Chinese, British, Dutch, French etc. Its just Americans had weapons that were better than all the conventional powers.
@@omni5640 I mostly agree, pretty much everything in the small arms (Japanese navy and air force were initially way better, American funds were diverted to Europe and the Japanese had great planes) department was objectively better except for maybe the American m1 flamethrower which was immediately replaced, and the BAR compared to the japanese LMGs. Early war, though, remember that Marines stormed the beaches with bolt action rifles and without much air superiority. The bastards of Bataan went through hell. Thank god for American industrial capacity, their fighting wasn't in vain.
I meant the Type 14 Nambu, and I can't find anything online that mentions disastrous explosions, only reliability that was definitely worsened late-war.
If you mean the Type 94, it might suck but I don't see anything about it exploding in your face, only things about accidental fires if it's not on safe, since the breech is on the outside or something
Ive heard that the arisaka rifles were actually quite good.
@@yamingoat it was good as a bolt action rifle but the Muricans had m1 garand, which was superior against it in the jungle. At that stage of the war, Japanese had to resort to some suicidal tactics to at least keep up with the marines, including the notorious banzai charge and boomstick.
The concept of type 92 is quite different from that of MG42.
Type 92 is some sort of fast repeating sniper rifle.
This is because Japanese industrial base was smaller than other countries, though human resource (number) is rich.
Good video! Thank you!
From Japan 🇯🇵
👍🏻Thanks for the support!
I don’t see exactly how this is bad, sure it’s got a slow rate of fire, but it looks like it hits like a truck and from what I’ve heard is an especially accurate and precise weapon, to the point where it came with a fucking scope.
its shooting an underpowered round, and hmg's arent supposed to be snipers
ITS SUPPOSED TO BE A MACHINE GUN NOT A FUCKING DESIGNATED MARKSMANS RIFLE
That’s slower than an M2.
And it’s a rifle caliber round too at least the m2 could shoot down planes and light armor
And smaller, this gun firing 7 mm bullets, while M2 firing .50 Cal BMG
And yet it can fire for three times as long
@@klown463 Doesn't really help if there are wave of enemies, a faster fire rate is better than being able to shoot for a few minutes longer, and not to mention the M2's barrel could be changed fairly quickly. Not to mention it has much worse penetration than a .50 cal, meaning its useless against enemies behind trees, sandbags, bricks, vehicles, and light tanks, while the .50 cal can through through many light tanks at the time, bricks, thick trees, multiple sandbags, multiple bricks, etc, not to mention that the .50 cal is useful as anti air.
slower than pistol
おそらく第二次世界大戦のもっとも適確な射撃の機関銃
POV: You’re entrenched on the hillside of Iwo Jima waiting to ambush the oncoming G.I.’s
No stupid intro. No 15 minute long video with some personality talking for 7 minutes about bullshit you have to follow the channel for 4 years to understand. No skipping through to find the content you came for.
This is a good video.
92式重機関銃はロマンだな！
Everyone’s talking about it’s rate of fire but I’m more concerned about it’s ammo capacity.
More like lack of
@Imperial Terra or, you know, just use a belt
I've always wondered why the japanese loved the hotchkiss design so much. Would have fared much better with a maxim
You gunna lug the water? I wouldnt want to.
@@ezzz42 Yea the water is heavy but this gun alone is almost the same weight as a maxim with water loaded.
@@mikkel066h but will run without the water. All day long. Get a piece of shrapnel or a bullet threw that water jacket and its over. Will overheat hella fast. The mass alone of the gun makes it more resistant to battlefield hazards.
Very nice rate of fire, calls for accurate volleys and eliminate the spray and pray tactics.
Not really, you much better off with something with a higher rate of fire, which would allow you to suppress the enemy and prevent then from pushing, not to mention its around 55kgs, yet it shoots a smaller round than the .50. I would take a .50 over this any day because its lighter, barrel swaps are faster and easier, and you can actually go through lightly armored vehicles, trucks, cars, bricks, trees, multiple sandbags, aircraft, etc, meanwhile the 7mm round that this HMG fires cant do any of that very well if at all. If you going to have a HMG, it better either have a high fire rate or a high caliber round that can shoot down aircraft and light tanks. The german's MG42 could easily be switched into a light/medium MG and if mounted in a tripod, a HMG, which a rate of fire around 1300-1400 per minute. It might not be able to go through as many things as the .50 cal can, but its high rate of fire meant you could suppress the enemy from pushing your position, and in the case of D Day, mow down everyone in the landing craft as soon as the ramp opens within seconds. Its high fire rate also made it a somewhat effective AA gun when paired with a second MG42 against scout planes and even some fighter planes.
@@PilotTed Higher rate of fire doesn't mean you suppress people any better than a slower rate of fire. Higher rate of fire though DOES mean that you have less trigger time before you have to reload, going through ammo faster, and accumulating heat and wearing through barrels faster. And the actual practical rate of fire in an actual combat scenario would only be around 150 rpm anyway, similar to other machineguns. Just having a high rate of fire doesn't actually mean much in combat.
@@chaos2876 150 rpm??? Most people can shoot semi auto faster than that, that is literally slower than any WWI machinegun, which on average shot around 600rpm. I am sorry, but somthing shooting at 150 rpm is not going to supress the enemy as much as a machinegun shooting 700rpm, which is a pretty good speed. I dont think MGs should have anything ridiculous like over 1000, but anything under 500 is just too slow. The M4 shoots around 650 in full auto, while the M249 SAW shoots between 700-850. Also, I never said they should hold down the trigger till the ammo depletes or the barrel melts. A good MG gunner shoots a burst of around 7 seconds. I am going to give you the benefit of the doubt that the 150 rpm was referring to sustained fire, which you would be correct, as they are supposed to burst fire which allows them to sustain suppressing the enemy much longer than if they just fired all their ammo in one trigger pull.
@@PilotTed The M4a1 is around 800rpm, and typical sustained bursts are 3 seconds. And you missed the part where i said "practical" rate of fire. Referring to how many rounds you're actually going to be putting downrange in a firefight at the given rate. The M4 has a fire rate of 800 rpm, but practically in an actual combat scenario, you're probably going to hold a rate consistent rate of fire of about 30rpm at max due to a plethora of reasons. And if the MG42 were to hold a 7 second burst, it would go through around 150 rounds. At max you would hold 2 second bursts for the MG42, we're talking 75 round magazines or typically around 200 round belts. Practical rof is different from mechanical rof, and its the entire reason higher rate of fire for infantry weapons is arbitrary, and generally unfavorable.
Isn’t the point of a machine gun to deliver a high volume of fire though? I mean yeah the type 92 is excellent a short extremely accurate bursts but there isn’t a huge use for that
前田高地ではめっちゃ活躍したらしい
キツツキ？これ
@@Kettenkrad1940 イエス！これがキツツキです
レート凄い遅いですから音がキツツキみたいですよね
No
That's nice machine gun!!
You got this junk posted up in a bunker at hack saw ridge. I hope the crew can snipe on a tripod. The Japanese forces were most likely equipped with older water cooled machine guns procured by the colonial powers. You can't defend a sector with this.
When the grass got mad at the flamethrower :
This is so much better then simply looking at a gun shooting
It is a World War II machine gun my grandfather was a Marine in Guadalcanal he was a tank commander text Sergeant
one of the coolest point of view
Thank you
the upside of a metal strip is that a loader can push in the second strip, which the machine gun will just take, eliminating the need to reload.
@@derekakaderek the strips are 30 rounds and they are ejected from the gun when empty. How are you getting your hands hurt by the charging handle? The trigger is in the rear like an m2.
Theres propaganda footage of the gun firing during ww2. It loads really quick.
@@derekakaderek there is no reciprocating charging handle on the type 92. Even if there was your hands would be below the path of travel.
Is this where the hitmarker sound came from?
It's like the Henry Rifle.
Load it on Sunday, shoot all week.
When you see a Korean going out :
Lol I like this dark humour
This is my dad we appreciate you guys support!!! It means a lot to him that this vid is getting good views
You're welcome, thank you guys for filming a cool piece of history!!
"This is not a machine gun. It's a piece of damn artillery!" R Lee Ermey
Jeez how many times do we have to say this
ITS
A
MACHINE
GUN
Looks like a Light Machine gun in my eyes
ok
@@mexicanmedic it is still a machine gun ya dunce
@@mexicanmedic Yeah. But he is right. Machine gun is a machine gun. Don't care if it's either Heavy, Light, or Sub :D
*chuckles*
Okay!
All these people saying the big plus side of this gun is that it can fire for longer than other guns without overheating...
Yes I'm sure it can fire for a long time without overheating, but I'm sure the others could fire for just as long if you fired the same amount of rounds per minute by burst firing
My elderly neighbour just through a grenade through my window......
Hello! I am Japanese. This machine gun was called a woodpecker bird in the Japanese army.
Actually from what I have read the name came from the American forces. Due to the slow rate of fire the 92 hmg sounded like a woodpecker bird pecking on wood.
Everybody gangster until the M2 flamethrower pull up to burn the mg position out.......Everybody gangster until theres a banzai attack to counter said flamethrower
Accurate, ugly, slow, and heavy. Fun until your friends see you with one
@Imperial Terra Rising sun cringe
@Imperial Terra Me too, that’s why my Jake is memeologist
美しい…
Wait, this was an HMG? That thing barely even qualifies as a SAW
rethink what you just said!
It's a heavy machine gun in the sense that it's… heavy, very heavy, 55kg with tripod
The Type 92 was deliberately heavy in order to reduce as much recoil and vibration as possible. Everything from the barrel, bolt, and frame were constructed of dense metal in order to make the weapon as steady and stable as possible in any operator's hands. When combined with the numerous cooling fins on the barrel (reducing overheating by almost nothing), the Type 92 was the perfect long-range defensive weapon; you can keep your sightline fixated on a target without worrying about the recoil throwing you all over the place.
"heavy" is classified by the caliber of the weapon, not its actual weight.
@@tavariskaiser6742 as Juan said not at the time for instance depending on configuration the MG-34 and it’s successor the MG-42 could be considered a light machinegun or a heavy machinegun (if mounted on a tripod) the same goes for their predecessors the MG-08 which was a water cooled heavy machinegun despite it only firing 7.92 Mauser.
The Japanese didn't cut corners with their machine guns unlike most of their other arsenal. You can fire this thing continuously until the very barrel itself wears out.
Not gonna lie this gun really isn’t a true hmg like the m2 browning or the dshk. It’s more like a medium machine gun, as it is on a similar level to other guns like the m1919 browning a4, mg42, mg34, and the maxim m1910 in terms of caliber and portability. A true Japanese hmg might be the type 93.
POV: Your at Pelilue, fighting off a Japanese counterattack that involves tanks, a mortar pit on the left, and a truck coming in with troops in the center.
いつか祖国に戻れる日まで
お元気で
九二式重機関銃…いいねぇ。
最高だわ。発射速度は遅いけど
その分的確に敵兵を殺せるから
いいかも。でも威嚇射撃は出来ないか。
Wut
the best at what? killing chinese civilians?
@@Alexa-hh8so かっこよくてダメですか
結局は引き金を引くのは人間ですよ
なにも中国人殺すのが最高なわけじゃ無いよ
貴方は銃が好きじゃ無いの？
@@Alexa-hh8so yes
@@favicon-z5f you Japanese？
多分違うやろ 違ってそんなん言うのやめてほしい荒れるだけ
When the chinese kid steals your pen in school:
Anyone who underestimates this weapon, just has to look at what it did on Iwo Jima.
Exactly i think its banned now
So it fires 7.7mm, fires slow, weights a lot, what would you even call it if the word HMG didn't exist?
a piece of trash
@@yournotgully but an accurate one lol
@@williewilson2250 a semi auto m2 is prob just as accurate
That fire rate is slow it's good as an anti aircraft gun
I understand that it doesn't overheat instantly
I heard japanese mgs are very very accurate
People down playing this Weapon must not know about the dreaded 'Wood Pecker'. These things were deadly and often accented with bursts of LMG fire. Long range, slow firing- these things could hold whole companies and plunging fire over hills made he marines pay dearly across the islands
here all the expert of weapons in the comment
It’s one thing to watch the video and be an expert. It’s another to say you’ve shot it and have worked on it like I have.
@@tactical12 i mean i am talk of the people judge this weapon bad cause of reload system look and fire noise
they are annoying and act like if they know how make an better weapon
Type 92 HMG | Heavy Machine Gun | Emplaced / Carryable
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idk its like the one low rank mg but with good accuracy stats
Best sounding honda ive heard...
POV: you are the scope
Only 30 round feed strips, but got damn that thing is a laser beam
Is it possible to rechamber this gun in 308?
Actually this gun has a 308 insert in the chamber and is shooting 308. I have had issues not getting enough gas for proper recoil. After using a bore scope it was discovered that a lot of the lands and groves were gone and it was a smooth bore and along with the smaller 308 bullet I am not getting enough gas for proper recoil. I have my barrel at the machine shop as I write. The machinist has bored out the original Japanese barrel and is going to turn down a 1919 browning machine gun 308 chrome lined barrel and press fit it in the original Japanese barrel then pin it in. When its done I will take a video of it shooting. I am keeping my fingers crossed it will work. Glenn
it looks so weird, like something out of the metro series
The Japanese weapons always look very interesting and somewhat weird with all the heat coils.
The type 92 does look a lot like the DShK Russian HMG.
So are they going to reuse the empty shells like recycling it?
Music to my ears
plot twist: this is dubbed WWII footage in color
Fully automatic anime dispenser
62式より性能良い説
比べるのもバカらしくなるくらいの性能差ですよ、92式重機関銃は名銃ですので
Full Auto Oklahoma Shootout. I was there June 2019.
No noise at all . Do Japanese army still use them?
They do not! Not many examples of this fine weapon are left to view.
One Shot Freddy played and i refreshed because I couldn’t comment. HAHA
Sounds like a pack-a-punch spitball launcher
This thing shot at my grandfather.
His voice sounds like my old grandfather coughing
Thank you haha!
It'd have been useful in ravines, ridges.This machine gun could be deadly in high places shooting at the incoming infantry below.
Almost no recoil, heat or jam problem. This is not an HMG this is a full automatic sniper.
Design for un urban territory battles, not loud, his "ready to fire" time is short and easy.
Big disadvantages, low ammo capacity and fire rate.
knowing modern day japan, they will definitely turn this into an anime girl
"It's a machine gun"
Hey Grandpa check this out
Grandpa: **VIETNAM FLASHBACKS**
To begin with, the type 92 is not that much slower than the M17 or M60 and rate of fire is overrated anyway, it comes at a price. You burn through ammo at a crazy rate so you have to allocate additional squad members as ammo carriers, barrel overheats quickly and has to be swapped out constantly (remember the asbestos gloves) and is less accurate, especially with a poorly trained gunner. The real advantage of the MG42 was how easy it was to move around and walking fire is perfectly doable. (I base that on personal experience with the MG3 which is essentially a MG42 rechambered for 7.62 Nato)
that's kinda creepy when ever a gun is add to warzone youtube pops up a video for it
Imagine having to traverse the jungles of Saipan or Okinawa knowing that these are waiting for you......
Your grandpa felt this
Almost has no recoil
Probably because of the weight of the bolt and the gun itself.
heavy gun + standard rifle caliber
m2 browning weight is the same, but .50 bmg has 6 TIMES MORE energy than 7.7 japanese cartridge
@@Tonyx.yt. makes sense
pov: the emperor told you not to retreat
now that's the sound of an airsoft gun
Yeah, it might horrible and slow, but try imagining yourself taking a shot from this during its time.
That iron sight really rubs me the wrong way for some reason....
I need 900000000000000 of those to buy ok
Imagine the Japanese having these cams on their machine guns in ww2
Those detractors should try standing downrange of this gun, to test whether it is truly crap or not.
more apt to say the gun just didn't fit a "can do all" need that bigger industrial capacity can provide.
@@derekakaderek sure professor.
@@sunmakergg true, it was designed with different purpose / doctrine. Ian and AZgun can explain it better than i ever could.
Its all fun and games till someone shouted "Banzai"