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Type 97

Discussion in 'Small Arms and Edged Weapons' started by RSSbot, Oct 3, 2008.

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    The Type 97 light machine guns were vehicular weapons most frequently seen atop Japanese tanks. The inner-workings of them were actually copies of the Czech ZB vz/26 light machine guns of the 1920s, but they featured different stocks and grips. The barrels were known to overheat during sustained f...

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