The Type 96 light machine gun (九六式軽機関銃, Kyūroku-shiki Kei-kikanjū) was a light machine gun used by the Imperial Japanese Army in the interwar period and in World War II. [3]

Jul 7, 2025 · But it is a very early light machine gun design, and ultimately, Kojiro Nambu’s design was adopted for service in 1922. The Type 11 is slightly reminiscent of some early Hotchkiss LMG types …

Designed by Kijiro Nambu to replace his 1922 Type 11 LMG (which was fed by a unique hopper mechanism using 5-round rifle stripper clips), the Nambus are often mistaken for copies of the Bren...

Dec 1, 2000 · The Type 96 Nambu light machine gun was of indigenous design and was created by Japan’s most prominent arms designer, Lieutenant General Kijiro Nambu who, at the time in 1936, …

The army ordered the creation of weapons firing this cartridge, both a bolt-action rifle and a light machine gun. The results was the Arisaka Type 99, based on the Arisaka Type 38 rifle, and the …

The Type 96 and Type 99 Nambu light machine guns were arguably the best LMGs used by any nation during WWII - they were light, handy, accurate, durable, and reliable.

Jun 15, 2006 · Lt. General Kijiro Nambu, now more widely known for his contributions to Japanese pistol designs, also worked on their machine guns. Japanese machine guns are quite rare.

The Nambu-type training light machine gun (Japanese: 南部式訓練軽機関銃) was a Japanese blank-firing training light machine gun developed by the Nambu Arms Manufacturing Company (later …

Jul 26, 2024 · The Type 96 light machine gun was designed to be easy to redeploy and provide suppressing fire wherever needed. The weapon fired a 6.5x50mm round at 550 rounds per minute …

Jul 16, 2025 · Despite the logistical issues created by fielding three separate LMGs, the Nambu Lights were easily among the most deadly infantry weapons of the war. The following are a collection of …