3D Animation: The Very Unconventional Type 11 Machine Gun
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- The Type 11 light machine gun was a machine gun used by the Imperial Japanese Army in the interwar period and during World War II. It was designed by Japanese arms designer Kijirō Nambu, based on a modification of the French Hotchkiss M1909 machine gun. It was an air-cooled, gas-operated design, using the same 6.5 by 50mm Arisaka cartridges as the Japanese Type 38 infantry rifle.
The Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 had convinced the Japanese of the utility of machine guns. The Army Technical Bureau was tasked with the development of a lightweight machine gun which could be transported by an infantry squad. The resultant "Type 11 light machine gun" (named after the 11th year of the reign of Emperor Taishō) was the first light machine gun to be mass-produced in Japan and the oldest Japanese light machine gun design to see service in the Pacific War.
A unconventional feature of the Type 11 machine gun was its detachable hopper; it could be refilled while attached and did not require removal during operation. Instead of a belt or box magazine, the Type 11 was designed to hold up to six of the same cartridge clips used on the Type 38 rifle. The five-round clips were stacked lying flat above the receiver, secured by a spring arm, and the rounds were stripped from the lowest clip one at a time, with the empty clip thrown out and the next clip automatically falling into place as the gun was fired. The system had the advantage that any squad member could supply ammunition and that the hopper could be replenished at any time. The relatively short barrel of 17.5 inches produced excessive flash with standard ammunition intended for the Type 38 rifles with barrels more than a foot longer. As a result a new load was introduced which burned faster in the Type 11's short barrel and produced less flash. This new round was called the 6.5 by 50mm Arisaka genso round.
The disadvantage of the hopper was that the open feeder box allowed dirt to enter the gun, which could lead to malfunctions in combat. Another issue was that the weight of the rifle cartridges in the side-mounted hopper unbalanced the weapon when fully loaded. To compensate, the buttstock was designed in a way that it bent to the right, leading to the Chinese nickname "bent buttstock".
The Type 11 came into active service in 1922, and some 29,000 were produced by the time production stopped in 1941. It was the primary Japanese light machine gun through the Manchurian Incident and in the early stages of the Second Sino-Japanese War. It remained in service through the end of World War II. It was replaced by the Type 96 light machine gun.
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Finally... clipazine.
CLIPAZINE
In Chinese it's two different words with the same pronounciation, and this gun would allow us to use any one of those words
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@@lokhimcheung9262 But does it still use the same character tho?.
@@arya31ful no, but people often messes it up
A yes. The legendary 30 clip magazine
It even has a barrel shroud, but is lacking a shoulder thing that goes up.
Only the highest-tier gun nerds can conceptualize this without their brains melting.
Isnt it also the only gun you can use clip and mag at the same time?
@353Tensa353 no, most firearms with clips use internal magazines that don't come out.
@@Gr3nadgr3goryThe difference here, though, is that the stripper-clips are still in the gun and holding the rounds while firing. I think that the Enfield might have been an exception, because I'm pretty sure that it kept the clips inside until the last round of each was ejected (I could be very wrong, so don't quote me on that). Then there's technically the Garand, but it had a very different type of clip, so I wouldn't personally count it.
Pretty good idea from a logistics standpoint as well if it's using the exact same clips as the riflemen.
I think that was the idea behind it.
If it's one thing the japs are good at is logistics. --Benjamin Franklin
It was, but the issue was that the feed design was prone to fouling with dirt which was a major issue in a jungle environment.
It’s really a genius design because everyone around you will have ammo. Sure it may not have the ability to sustain fire like a belt fed would but I think it’s practical in its own way
especially when everyone was still using bolt action with stripper clips. Easily shared ammunition.
This. It served its purpose very well. It's not as complex as I always used to think it was too, for a machine gun it's a pretty simple open bolt design..you could make one in your garage if you really wanted to waste the time and material on it
You're limited by barrel heat anyway, prolonged sustained fire isn't feasible. So topping it off made for intervals to let it cool down.
yeah I mean depending on how on-the-spot the mg crew is, you could probably load this thing really fast and be shooting soon enough that it might provide the same effect as a different gun with a larger magazine.
こんにちは。
曾祖父さんは弾倉が変形や残弾カウンターから砂が入る理由から給弾不良を頻繁に起こす他の機関銃より、丁寧にメンテナンスを行った十一年式の方が良く動き、また周りを見渡せば弾が簡単に補充出来たので信頼していたようです。
また、箱型弾倉は死体から回収しても血で固まって機能しないのに対して、クリップは問題無く給弾したようです。
Since the arm in the "hopper" provides downward pressure needed to sit the bottom clip onto the strip feeder thing, it is not hopper, but rather a magazine.
It really is a clip magazine.
Clipazine
ALL HAIL THE CLIPAZINE!
"I have a machine gun with five clips."
"You mean magazines, you idiot."
*Whips out a Type 11*
"Who's the idiot now?"
I'm gonna go with whoever made that thing. An ingenious idiot, but an idiot nonetheless.
Underrated comment
If only sneako had a Type 11
@@Spacey_keymeanwhile sneako with a M1 Garand en-bloc clip: LOOK AT MY MAGS
@@Playing096 Sneako with a musket ball "YEAH CHECK THESE BULLETS BRO"
One more thing to consider is that if this gun is worn down or malfunctions it's ammo can still be used by others
Very original idea though when you don't have belts
This allowed the machine gunner to get quick reloads from any fellow infantryman
I learned about this type of gun through the game Enlisted, its advantage is that it is easy to reload, the soldier using the Arikasa rifle can use his own magazine to give to the machine gunner without having to look for bullets.
The Italian got the were the first with the Perino Model 1908 machine gun which used six 20 round clips
@@dannyzero692the perino was my daddy in BF1
Breaking fingers. The magazine cap had very powerfull spring capable of breaking a finger. And there was also an oilcan for a cartridges.
My paternal great-grandfather used this gun on the Chinese front. It was probably good enough for use in countries such as the Philippines, but apparently it was the worst for use in mainland China. Sand got into the exposed hopper, causing the ammunition to jam, and the gun oil to get stuck in the sand, making it useless, so in the end he used a ZB26 captured from the Chinese military.
Thank you for the info. Very little documentation exists on the efficacy of the gun in the field.
@@adamthompson626 My great-grandfather didn't think much of the Type11, but he did appreciate the ZB26's sturdy construction and reliable operation. The fact that it used a 7.92mm Mauser bullet, which was more powerful than the 6.5mm bullet that was Imperial Army's mainstay at the time, was also liked.
I'm using Google Translate, but when translating from Japanese to English, it seems to convert the wrong words. Therefore, my English may be very strange. sorry
Also, I don't know if it is known overseas, but during the Pacific War, the Imperial Army manufactured ZB26 and 7.92mm Mauser bullets at Chinese arsenals. They were deployed in large numbers, mostly to the Kwantung Army, but some were also used in the Pacific Theater until the deployment of Type 96 and Type 99 was completed.
@@モゲロンビョ The english in these posts seems excellent. I don't know if it is exactly what you wanted to say, but it is grammatically perfect, and the words all make perfect sense in combination.
The feeding mechanism is particularly unique, a claw moving in a circle to move rounds into the chamber whereas a typical clip has rounds pushed via spring.
Very ingenious design just to gather the enormous advantages of using the same rifle ammo.
not only the same ammo, but the exact same clip too. these guys were smart.
but not same ammo)
This gun is probably the only thing making sense with Japanese ammunition situation. They have 6.5mm and 7.7mm rounds in service, but they also have 7.7mm rimmed rounds for some MG, the Navy use 2 different rounds because they can’t take the round Army has. It’s a nightmare.
I have a bare barrel and bipod for this gun. The bipod clamps around on one of the fins of the barrel.
I never knew just what model and history was of these parts until this video popped up on my YT feed.
My father was in the US Navy from before the start of WWII until it was over. He served mostly on the cruiser USS Minneapolis and a short time on a destroyer while the bow of the Minnie was being repaired after having been badly damaged by a torpedo.
He was on the Minnie as it was headed back to Pearl when the base was first attacked and seemed to have been a part of every major Navy battle in the Pacific during WWII.
After supporting other forces and pounding an unknown island during the taking back from the Japanese, he boarded a landing ship and came up on a beach after the enemy had been neutralized. He found this Japanese machine gun on the beach and picked it up and took it back with him to the ship.
He was planning on cleaning it up and putting it on display but was told he had to remove the main mechanism and just use the barrel and bipod. He especially noted that in an effort to clean the remaining parts that there was no solvent on the ship that would fully degrease the gun.
He brought these parts back to the USA when he got out of the Navy, and it has been in my family ever since. There was originally a spring-loaded valve mounted under the front of the barrel that could be depressed and rotated into various detents. I believe this valve was originally connected to the gas tube and probably controlled the fire rate. Somewhere around 1968 or so when we moved that valve disappeared and didn't make the move.
I hope to clean it up someday and display it. It got some rust on it, but a good cleaning and black oxide treatment would make it appear as it was when I first saw it 60 or so years ago.
I am happy to know more about what this gun originally was and its war history.
I guess the one bit of praise you can give this design is that it uses the same ammo as the rest of the infantry. Not needing to make special ammo belts for it helps make logistics easier, and any of your allies can lend you ammo.
What a neat overbuilt device! I love these 3d vids showing the internal components.
For the era the idea is pretty genius. Having your ammunition on clips that all other servicemen also carry makes the logistics easy. If they made the gun more portable and akin to a modern squad automatic rifle, it would be similar to an RPK in concept.
Even though designs like these may flop, you gotta admire the dedication to at least try to design something so complex.
@@christopherneufelt8971 at least one requirement is pretty clear for this one: must use standard issue stripper clips identical to the ones in normal rifles.
This would make a great range toy. Not ideal for combat. It used oiled cartridges, which is always a bad feature, and combined with that open hopper, would lead to disastrous problems. It would be great for shooting old refrigerators at Knob Creek though.
Imperial Japan probably had the best small arms of any army in the world when they invaded Manchuria.
Have seen type 11’s dated as late as 1943
Always thought this was a really cool design. Outdated by WWII but when considering the ease of logistics to supply this with simple rifle clips it is neat. Especially for a 1920s design.
I am fascinated with the Type 11. Thank you for showing how it functioned.
One of the machine guns of all time
The design is very human.
11年式軽機関銃とは何と珍しい銃を😂
構造は嫌いじゃないが実用性は…
Brilliant design... Excepting of course that exposed hopper.
The hopper is less of an issue as the oiler.
Much like the Italian Breda 30, this gun used an oil dabber to lubricate each round so it could extract easily. Oil and dirt have an intense, passionate love affair so the gun ran poorly in most environments.
Fascinating design
Here are things that could make this gun "acceptable" to modern standards :
> Implement reusable 10-round stripper clips
> Use lighter materials without decreasing reliability of crucial parts
> Implement picatinny rails for modularity/customization
Even then, these changes probably wouldn't make the military adopt this gun 😂🤣
The whole point of the rifle is that it allows the machinegunner to resupply from any nearby infantryman. It wouldn't make much sense today since we don't use stripper clips anymore.
@@iotaje1
stripper clips are still used in the military, some ammo packs have the ammo on clips with an adaptor (in the US known as "the spoon") for use to quickly load magazines in a firefight.
I can see this type of contraption made as a closed bolt semi auto range toy/home defense emplacement in jurisdictions where normal and larger capacity magazines are banned.
@@slimjim2584 The box would still fit the definition of a magazine so no luck on the legislation front.
If a machinegunner has access to ammo boxes he would have had access to belted ammo, and soldiers nowadays carry already loaded magazines.
A modern equivalent would be something like the minimi that usually has a belted ammo box but can use M4 mags if needed.
@ZaHandle M14 used a magazine instead of a box that can hold stripper clip ammos. But yeah, maybe the gun wouldn't work fairly well for the military even after a lot of these points were being implemented, just like M14 😂🤣
@@iotaje1 Yeah, mags are the meta for the military firearms nowadays. Stripper clips are just for holding on the bullets inside the ammo carriage box when there's a shortage of mags.
I had actually been looking for a 3D model of this for a few years, Im glad I got to see a video of it with not only a 3D Model, but with a description of its operation as well, thankyou!!
I have a thing for imperial Japanese fire arms
Man, the Japanese had to MacGyver so much of their military equipment to stand a chance against other nations militaries and won a lot of their battles by either suprise or attacking weaker forces like they did in china, Air power was the one place they held the advantage over anyone for a length of time
I see how this would work more on vehicle or tank platforms, all that debris and mud could jam this gun bad in stressful situations
The Japanese guns were so rare but simple and worked pretty well.
Such a fascinating concept. Never heard of this.
Finally someone is talking in these videos 🎉🎉🎉makes me excited hopefully you start making all you videos With commentary and if u need content just redo all your other videos with commentary please 😂Imma sub regardless tho and maybe a little longer 😂okay I’m done good video I wish I could like it 10 times
10 trillion times
Thank you! I will add commentary to my future videos. 3DGunner
Nambu, the mark of quality
each clip holds 5 rounds, type 11 hold 6 clips. load it up, stack five more next to it and you got yourself a 5 by 5 6 clip magazine
I read about these as a kid. Really cool to see them function instead of just imagining it from still pictures.
Looks like something out of fallout.
I played Enlisted for quite some time, and I played Japanese heavily. The Type 11 is at a usual disadvantage against allies due to the Browning but when positioned well and used in understanding the Type 11 as a gun that has really fast reload you can put in some work with it. My favorite variant is the scoped Type 11. Amazing short to mid range capabilities with the added benefit of still being able to use it long range when you control your shots. Just like the real life counterpart it runs off the same ammo as other guns and anyone in your squad with that ammo type can supply you rounds.
I really enjoyed this video and the animations that showed off all the mechanisms. You've earned a subscriber today
Very cool animation.
I have read about this gun and seen many photos but I could never understand how it functioned.
Great work.
As others have commented, with this method, sand does not get into the gun.Belt-fed systems were newly invented and their reliability was still low.
Unlike in games, machine guns are used by two people, so this method is more reasonable.
Additionally, there are pistols in Japan that misfire when you press the side of the gun, but according to the regulations of the Japanese Army, it is prohibited to load ammunition into pistols when they are not in use, so this flaw is not a problem.
I want this piece of heavy metal in the next Resident Evil Game !
I thought this was a MEME video at first judging by the thumbnail, but now I see this is actually a real thing. Really wacky design...
some super strong Star Wars vibes from this thing
truly the thirty magazine clip in half a second
It's not exactly awful, considering the bigger the magazine, the more likely it is to jam. By keeping each individual magazine small, you reduce the risk of jamming. On top of that, if you need to load something in a pinch, a single small magazine that can be loaded quickly could make a difference in response time. If you have to relocate rapidly while under fire, even one small magazine with you can make a difference, better than having to relocate and ditch everything because the magazines are too large to take with you. Also probably helped against recruits who were a little too trigger happy and would waste more bullets than needed, forcing them to focus on making what they have count. It's like a meal, the larger portion in front of you, the more you'll eat. Same thing happens with rounds, where if you give someone something that holds a lot of rounds, they'll tend to use more of them to get the job done, but that can quickly add up to bullet shortages.
I'm no engineer or gun designer but this seems as if it could relatively easily been shortened, lightened, given a front grip and you'd have had a pretty decent assault rifle-ish thing given the light ammo
Maybe they originally intended to use it for larger rounds, or intended to make it have durability. Let's keep in mind, the Japanese were largely defending at this point, so troops were already propped up and dug in somewhere with it, so they didn't need highly mobile weapons. Maybe the metallurgical durability wasn't that good, or maybe they just wanted them to work for a long time. I'd imagine the size was also partially for general cooling capacity so that the barrels experience less wear and tear from heating up. The barrel was clearly designed somewhat like a heatsink with fins in order to aid cooling. It might have had other uses, but I'm betting cooling was a big factor in design of the barrel.
What an ingenious design! Never knew of it.
To be honest, a quick look at the thumbnail, I imagined that it was a ridiculous joke machine gun inveted to fire all the bullets at once by how they were stacked. Like a shotgun, I imagined the phrase: "atleast one will always hit. It has to."
I thought normal machine-gun belt loading is uncomfortable before I know about this gun.
An assault, high capacity, clip-azine a truly dangerous thing...
I took a quick look at the thumbnail and thought this was some kind of monstrous shotgun
I like the case eject animation.
I actually like this design.
Ah, the legendary clipazine
Yoooo I love it! That is such a great idea for a machine gun
I needed to see what kind of mechanism fed the rounds into battery. Thank you.
even though it's a higher jamming risk, this is pretty brilliant for the time.
Huh. Thats a great solution to logistics. I can see in an alternate universe where box magazines didn't become standard practice a modern version of this using the same method but refined.
I always wondered if you took something like this with 10 round clips and a modern rifle system. You can reload 10 bullets at a time without changing the whole mag. Plus ammo is easier to carry in clip form
The Chauchat also had the same problem during WW1 with its half moon magazines having open sides for dirt to enter, eventually ending up in the chamber causing the gun to malfunction.
Also 8mm Lebel
Not the most insane idea I've ever seen, especially considering Japan was strapped for resources.
I’d imagine it’d be great for logistics but not as effective as other designs.
This is a brilliant design.
If I ever accidentally say "clips" when I meant "mags" I'll have to remember to mention the Type 11.
"30 magazine clip in half a second" as Kevin de Leon would say.
so in a sense, this is basically a miniature sideways handheld Bofors 40mm, i wonder how long it can keep firing when it is constantly being fed clips.
like many MGs, it'll likely keep going until the barrel melts. If you have a gunner that can burst-fire slow enough that someone can slap new clips in as old ones get ejected, and that guy had enough clips to keep it going... you could keep up the fire. But just imagine how fast someone can get the thing back in action if they're well drilled compared to other MGs of the time.
wow, some has to go deeper about analizing this feed system, a weapon with a magazine that feeds from clips? thats very interesting.
great video , thanks.
Thank you!
It looks stupid when compared to other weapons of its time, but being able to accept the common infantry ammunition makes it far more versatile. Considering that it is Japanese, it makes sense that they would make a light machine gun that uses the same ammo type as regular infantry to save on cost. If the design was improved, or Japan won the war, I’m sure it would be considered revolutionary.
Great animation of this firearm. Leave it to Japan to invent the Clipazine before California.
Simple and useful , that construction solve many problems , good weapon.
Genius feed mechanism.
Excellent!
Arasaka sure evolved to what they have in 2077
Ah, so THAT'S how they fit twenty one rounds in the M1 grand in Payday 2...
man
the preview font got me thinking about some crazy space magic level stuff
like a machine gun that spew bullets that fly around a screw like structure on its barrel
and at the same time doing it like a shotgun
reality is a bit more timid and bland
Didn't Italians have heavy machine gun with very similar way of feeding cartridges?
Got to see a couple of examples last month at the Royal Thai Navy Museum in Bangkok.
Until Call of duty Vanguard
Ruined it
Type 11 japanese lmg
The Nambu-Bamboo. ❤❤❤
It's crazy to think about but this gun is the same principle as the M27IAR or other standardized magazine accepting automatic rifles but a whole 100 years earlier.
I mean it's like the m60, this gun was design to use the same clip as the army rifle of Japan, m60 can use the standard stanag mag
Surely better than the Breda 30.
Next Machinegun design in Helldivers
It kinda looks like the trigger will get worn down tho, which is holding back the bolt stopping it from firing. But idk
I couldn't watch this video with sound on but maybe they talked about it. I'm just wondering about the gun's complexity causing breaks and jamming.
Oh wow nice work
Thank you
The vids are even better with you speaking.
Thank you very much
Reminds me of the ww1 fiat machine gun
Chinese naming schemes are just mindblowingly creative🤣
Have a feeling some in the design process on the M249 thought of this gun at one point
So it's the equivalent of an RPK/IAR/M249 when you're stuck with stripper clips in the logistics chain instead of box magazines and belts.
Lucky for you, almost every soldier around you with a rifle also had the same stripper clips. Lots of stripper clips in the logistics chain.
@@Blashmack Well, yeah. RPK and M27 IAR are just heavier versions of infantry rifles that happen to take longer than usual magazines, so in a pinch you can borrow some mags from a buddy to keep going.
This design just happens to kind of live in a transitional era where belts or box magazines aren't common but everyone has internal Mauser style actions and clips, so having an LMG feeding from a hopper like it does makes total sense.
imagine if it could somehow fire all at once...
Awesome gun. Always liked the idea of it.
Real ones load their mag with clips 😎
I'm gonna ask Anton if this weapon can be added to H3VR. I have no idea if there are weapons in the game that have this "clipazine" design.
Hmmm... I can vaguely see the potential in this, but it may be hard to do so.
Lots of issue to solve before it is perfect.
This wil be in the next ww1 themed battlefield that noone asked for
Simplify manufacturing and logistics when you use same clip as rifle, but horrible with weight and prone to jam with open box magazine.