Type 94 90mm light mortar

Years of service: 1935-1945

Diameter: 90.5mm

Barrel length: 1270mm (L14)

Gun weight: 159.0kg

Ammunition types: grenades, arson, smoke bombs, chemical bombs, flares

Gun elevation angle: +45 to +80

Degree projectile weight: 5.26kg

Muzzle velocity of ammunition: 227m/sec

Maximum firing range: 3800m

Infantry light support artillery, equipped with infantry wings of Japanese field divisions, 4-6 guns per company, used to deal with machine gun positions and trenches, and cooperate with the mountain artillery or field artillery of the wing for battlefield suppression. Formula 150mm medium force

Years of service: 1936-1945

Caliber: 150.5mm

Barrel length: 1325mm (L12.7)

Gun weight: 722kg

Ammunition types: grenades, arson, smoke bombs, chemical bombs, flares

Gun elevation angle: +45 to +80

degree projectile weight: 25.65kg

Muzzle velocity of ammunition: 214m/sec

Maximum firing range: 3900m

The battlefield supports artillery, equips the Japanese mortar wing, the independent mortar wing, and has great destructive power.

Type 97 90mm light mortar

Years of service: 1935-1945

Diameter: 90.5mm

Barrel length: 1217mm (L13.4)

Gun weight: 172.5kg

Ammunition types: grenades, arson, smoke bombs, chemical bombs, flares

Gun pitch angle: +45to +85 degrees

Projectile weight: 5.26kg

Muzzle velocity of ammunition: 227m/sec

Maximum firing range: 3800m

A modification of the Type 94 90mm light mortar, which was widely used, in the Jiangnan Theater of China, this type of artillery was more important to the Japanese infantry wing than the mountain artillery or field artillery of the wing.

Type 97 150mm short mortar

Years of service: 1941-1945

Caliber: 150.5mm

Barrel length: 1395mm (L9.2)

Gun weight: 232kg

Ammunition types: grenades, arson, smoke bombs, chemical bombs, flares

Gun pitch angle: +45to +80 degrees

Projectile weight: 23.8kg

Muzzle velocity of ammunition:-

Maximum firing range: 3200m

It belongs to the battlefield support artillery, equipped with some mortar wings of the Japanese army, independent mortar wing, used for landing operations and mountain warfare, and is a short barrel type of Type 97 150mm medium mortar

Type 97 150mm medium mortar

Years of service: 1937-1945

Caliber: 150.5mm

Barrel length: 1935mm (L12.8)

Gun weight: 342kg

Ammunition types: grenades, arson, smoke bombs, chemical bombs, flares

Gun pitch angle: +45to +80 degrees

Projectile weight: 23.8kg

Muzzle velocity of ammunition: 212m/sec

It belongs to the battlefield support artillery, equipped with the Japanese mortar wing, the independent mortar wing, and the weight is much lighter than the Type 96 150mm medium mortar, which is an improved version of the Type 96 150mm medium mortar.

Type 2 120mm medium mortar

Years of service: 1942-1945

Caliber: 120mm

Barrel length: 1535mm (L12.7)

Gun weight: 260kg

Ammunition types: grenades, arson, smoke bombs, chemical bombs, flares

Gun pitch angle: +40to +80 degrees

Projectile weight: 12.76kg

Muzzle velocity of ammunition: 239m/sec

Maximum firing range: 4200m

It belongs to the battlefield support artillery. This kind of mortar range and power are satisfactory, is the Japanese mortar unit at that time the favorite equipment, at the end of the war the Japanese army frantically produced this kind of mortar, used to replace the mountain artillery field artillery armed with the newly established coastal divisions.

41-year model 75mm mountain gun

Years of service: 1908-1945

Caliber: 75mm

Barrel length: 1300.0mm

Weight: 540kg

Ammunition types: blasting bombs, anti-personnel grenades, thermite arson bombs, chemical bombs

Projectile weight: 5.71kg of blasting projectile

Muzzle velocity of projectile: 360m/sec

Maximum firing range: 6300m

Type 41 75mm mountain artillery equipped with elite field units of infantry brigades or infantry wings of general field divisions, each elite infantry brigade adds 2 pieces, which is the suppression of artillery power of infantry brigades, as for the general infantry wing equipped with 4-6 guns, in the later stage of the war, with the rapid expansion of the size of the troops, the new artillery is difficult to meet the number of equipment requirements due to its high cost, so the Japanese Army basically stopped producing cutting-edge heavy artillery, and vigorously produced low-cost old-fashioned artillery, of which Type 41 mountain artillery is one of the key main artillery products of the Japanese army, Many of the artillery wings of divisions and regiments to which field divisions and regiments were formed later also began to be equipped with this kind of mountain artillery, which originally belonged to infantry brigades and infantry wings.

The 41 Type 75mm mountain gun is characterized by its light weight, 2 soldiers can push it around, the mobility is very good, and it is very convenient to use in various terrains, in addition to the 41 Type 75mm mountain gun is used to suppress the shelling, the Japanese army often pushes this gun to the street as a flat-fire gun during street fighting, bombarding the opponent's machine gun fire point.

Type 94 75mm mountain gun

Years of service: 1935-1945

Caliber: 75mm

Barrel length: 1560.0mm

Weight: 536kg

Ammunition types: blasting bombs, anti-personnel grenades, thermite arson bombs, chemical bombs

Projectile weight: 6.34kg

Muzzle velocity of projectile: 392m/sec

Maximum firing range: 8300m

The Type 94 75mm mountain gun is very lightweight, easy to disassemble and transport, and the firing range is not low, the design is very successful, and it is mainly equipped with field brigades, mountain artillery units of field divisions and independent mountain artillery wings, for mountain or other complex terrain operations

Type 99 105mm mountain gun

Years of service: 1939-1945

Caliber: 105mm

Barrel length: 1303.0mm Weight: 800kg

Ammunition types: blasting bombs, anti-personnel grenades, thermite arson bombs, chemical bombs

Projectile weight: 12.34kg

Muzzle velocity of projectile: 334m/sec

Maximum firing range: 7500m

The Type 99 105mm mountain artillery has a long range, great power, lightweight, and is easy to decompose and combine, and is mainly equipped with the mountain artillery wing or independent mountain artillery wing of the field division and regiment, and is used for complex terrain operations in mountainous areas.

Meiji 38 style 75mm field gun

Years of service: 1905-1945

Caliber: 75mm

Barrel length: 2325.0mm (L31)

Weight: 947kg Ammunition types: grenades, arson, chemical bombs

Gun pitch angle: -8to +16.5 degrees

Projectile weight: 6.41kg

Projectile muzzle velocity: 510m/sec

Maximum firing range: 8350m

After the outbreak of the Pacific War, in order to arm the new troops at the lowest cost, the 38-type 75mm field gun has become the focus of the field artillery production of the Japanese Army, and it is one of the field suppressed artillery with the largest amount of equipment in the Japanese army.

Meiji 38 style changed to 75mm field gun

Years of service: 1926-1945

Caliber: 75mm

Barrel length: 2325.0mm (L31)

Weight: 1135kg

Ammunition types: grenades, arson, chemical bombs

Gun pitch angle: -8to +43.0 degrees

Projectile weight: 6.41kg

Projectile muzzle velocity: 510m/sec

Maximum firing range: 11500m

The use of suppressive firing is the Type 38 75mm field gun with improved gun mount, which can make the gun reach a maximum elevation angle of 43 degrees, and the maximum firing range has been increased to 11500m, which is quite powerful, but the production cost of this gun is higher than that of the Type 38 75mm field gun, and it is rarely produced after the Japanese Army vigorously expands its troops.

Meiji 38 style 105mm

Years of service: 1931-1945

Caliber: 105mm

Barrel length: 3325.0mm (L30)

Weight: 2594kg

Ammunition types: grenades, arson, chemical bombs

Gun elevation angle: -2to +15.0 degrees

Projectile weight: 18.0kg

Projectile muzzle velocity: 540m/sec

Maximum firing range: 10800m

Suppressed for firing purposes, the performance was outdated at the outbreak of war, but some of these guns were still organized in separate field artillery units.

Meiji 38 style 120mm field howitzer

Years of service: 1911-1945

Caliber: 120mm

Barrel Length: 1440.0mm (L12)

Weight: 1257kg

Ammunition types: grenades, arson, chemical bombs

Gun pitch angle: -5to +43.0 degrees

Projectile weight:-

Muzzle velocity of projectile: 276m/sec

Maximum firing range: 5650m

Suppressed firing use, the performance at the beginning of the war was outdated, long since the production was discontinued, it is a reserve, only a few are formed in independent artillery units or infantry wings, and rarely appear on the battlefield.

The main defect of the Meiji 38 type 120mm field gun is that the range of the field artillery is too close, and the projectile power is not large, it is heavier as a mountain artillery, and the complex terrain is not so easy to maneuver, so the mountain artillery field artillery is reluctant to ask for it.

Meiji 38 Type 150mm field howitzer

(The ghost is full of happiness with this old cannon??? ）

Years of service: 1911-1945

Caliber: 149.1mm

Barrel length: 1880.0mm (L12.6)

Weight: 2090kg

Ammunition types: grenades, arson, chemical bombs

Gun pitch angle: 0to + 43.0 degrees

Projectile weight: 36Kg

Muzzle velocity of projectile: 275m/sec

Maximum firing range: 5890m

Suppress the use of shooting, equip the division and regiment field artillery units and independent field artillery wings, the performance of this gun is also very outdated, but the power of the 150mm gun is very great, and the cost of producing the new 150mm gun is higher, so the 38 type 150mm field howitzer has long been discontinued, but the Japanese army is not willing to eliminate this old cannon, this kind of artillery after the outbreak of the Pacific War due to the rapid expansion of the army units, and the domestic materials allocated to the army are in short supply, the army was forced to stop the production of new 150mm guns, The production of this antique cannon was resumed and was used to supply the new troops with a certain amount of large-caliber artillery, so the production was large, and this cannon was used until the end of the war, and some of them were also loaded on the chassis of the tank and changed to self-propelled guns (ghost self-propelled guns are rarely seen)

Taisho 4-year 150mm field howitzer

Years of service: 1915-1945

Caliber: 149.1mm

Barrel length: 2190.0mm (L14.7)

Weight: 2800kg

Ammunition types: grenades, arson, chemical bombs

Gun pitch angle: -5to +65.0 degrees

Projectile weight: 36Kg

Muzzle velocity of projectile: 389m/sec

Maximum firing range: 8800m

Suppressed shooting purposes, for infantry divisions and regiments of field artillery units and independent field heavy artillery brigades of field howitzers, the performance is better than the Type 38 150mm field guns, when the war was close to disproduction, but it has been used until the end of the war, this kind of artillery is very lightweight, high accuracy, and the power on the battlefield is still very great

Type 90 75mm field gun

Years of service: 1932-1945

Caliber: 75mm

Barrel length: 2883.0mm (L38.4)

Weight: 1600kg

Ammunition types: grenades, arson, chemical bombs

Gun pitch angle: -8to +43.0 degrees

Projectile weight: 6.56kg

Projectile muzzle velocity: 683m/sec

Maximum firing range: 13890m

Suppressed firing use, the firing range is very long, but it is not very popular with the field artillery of the Japanese infantry unit, mainly because the Japanese army thinks that this kind of gun is heavier than other 75mm field guns, and it is more laborious to maneuver when the road conditions are bad, so the production of the Type 90 75mm field gun towed type is not large. However, due to the long range and large penetration of this type of field artillery, it is very popular with the mecha troops of the combat vehicle unit when it is used to equip combat vehicles or self-propelled guns, so the output of the combat vehicle gun type of the Type 90 75mm field gun is not small, and it is equipped with Type 1 75mm self-propelled field gun, Type 3 75mm gun combat vehicle, and Type 3 medium combat vehicle.

In the late Taiping War, the Type 90 field gun was often used by the Japanese army as a tank gun, used to attack the M4 medium tank of the US army, because of the penetrating power of this gun, it posed a great threat to the US tank troops, during the Battle of Okinawa, the Japanese army controlled the road of the 90 Type 75mm field gun because of the concealment of the gun position, difficult to find, destroyed a number of M4 tanks of the US army, so that the US tank unit could not pass for up to 2 months.

Type 91 105mm field gun

Years of service: 1931-1945

Caliber: 105mm

Barrel Length: 2090.0mm (L20)

Weight: 1750kg

Ammunition types: grenades, arson, chemical bombs

Gun pitch angle: -5to +43.0 degrees

Projectile weight: 15.76kg

Muzzle velocity of projectile: 454m/sec

Maximum firing range: 10800m

Suppressed shooting use, long range, light weight, very popular with the Japanese infantry troops, the gun for the Japanese brigade and above level elite combat units under the jurisdiction of the artillery artillery artillery, this kind of artillery also has a self-propelled type called 1 type 105mm self-propelled field gun, also used as an anti-tank artillery in the later stage of the war, used to shoot the US M4 medium tank. (Xie Mantou was not treated well by the Axis powers, whether it was the Pacific War or on the Western Front in Europe!! ）

Type 95 75mm field gun

Years of service: 1936-1945

Caliber: 75mm

Barrel length: 2325.0mm (L31)

Weight: 1108kg

Ammunition types: grenades, arson, chemical bombs

Gun pitch angle: -8to +43.0 degrees

Projectile weight: 6.56kg

Projectile muzzle velocity: 520m/sec

Maximum firing range: 10700m

Suppressed shooting use, long range, light weight, long tube life, very popular with the Japanese infantry field artillery, mainly equipped with the Japanese infantry brigade above the unit field artillery unit, the original Japanese army was ready to use this gun as the main gun of the Type 3 fighter, but also because of the strong protest by the infantry unit and changed to the Type 90 field artillery, because the infantry unit was afraid that it would affect the number of equipment of the Type 95 75mm field gun in the infantry unit, but because the Type 90 75mm field gun has stronger anti-tank capabilities, So the ending is a happy ending

Type 96 150mm field gun

Years of service: 1937-1945

Caliber: 149.1mm

Barrel length: 3523.0mm (L23.6)

Weight: 4140kg

Ammunition types: grenades, arson, chemical bombs

Gun pitch angle: -5to +65.0 degrees

Projectile weight: 31.3Kg

Projectile muzzle velocity: 540m/sec

Maximum firing range: 11900m

Suppressive firing use, the field howitzer of the artillery unit and the elite field heavy artillery brigade of the Japanese elite division or brigade is also the new 150mm caliber howitzer produced by the Japanese Army during the war, this kind of artillery has extremely high accuracy and long range, and is called the most perfect 150mm caliber howitzer by the Japanese army, but this gun was forced to be basically discontinued in 1943 due to cost problems, and most of the Type 96 150mm field howitzers were completed in 1936-1941

Taisho 14 style 105mm cannon

Years of service: 1925-1945

Caliber: 105mm

Barrel length: 3590.0mm (L34.1)

Weight: 3115kg

Ammunition types: grenades, arson, chemical bombs

Gun pitch angle: -5to +43.0 degrees

Projectile weight: 15.76Kg

Muzzle velocity of projectile: 640m/sec

Maximum firing range: 15300m

Suppressive firing purposes, long-range field cannons of artillery units belonging to the Japanese field heavy artillery brigades, elite brigades and field divisions, and field heavy artillery brigades

Type 89 150mm field cannon

Years of service: 1929-1945

Caliber: 149.1mm

Barrel length: 5963.0mm (L40)

Weight: 10422kg

Ammunition types: grenades, arson, chemical bombs

Gun pitch angle: -5to +43.0 degrees

Projectile weight: 40.2Kg

Projectile muzzle velocity: 734m/sec

Maximum firing range: 18100m

Suppress the use of shooting, equip the artillery units of the Japanese elite infantry divisions, field heavy artillery brigades, heavy artillery wings, and long-range field cannons of independent heavy artillery units, this kind of artillery has a long range, and the projectile power is larger than the projectile of the Japanese army's 150mm field howitzer, this kind of artillery began to be widely used in the Chinese battlefield after the 918 incident, and played a huge role in destruction, but in the Pacific theater, because the US military adopted the frog jumping tactics of avoiding reality and imaginary, there are few opportunities to encounter the threat of this artillery, In the Battle of Okinawa in 1945, 8 Type 89 150mm field cannons of the Japanese army participated in the battle and achieved great lethal effects, and Lieutenant General Barnack of the US Army was also killed by this artillery

Type 92 105mm field cannon

Years of service: 1935-1945

Caliber: 105mm

Barrel Length: 4725.0mm (L45)

Weight: 3730kg

Ammunition types: grenades, arson, chemical bombs

Gun pitch angle: -5to +45.0 degrees

Projectile weight: 15.76Kg

Projectile muzzle velocity: 765m/sec

Maximum firing range: 18200m

Suppressive firing use, field heavy artillery brigades, elite brigades and elite divisions of the artillery units of the long-range field cannon, high accuracy, long range, very powerful, is the world's farthest range of 4-inch artillery at that time, without the use of sub-caliber shells, rocket shells and other long-range shells have a range of more than 18 kilometers, at that time second only to the Japanese Navy's 100mm cannon, the 92 type 105mm cannon range is very far even according to the current artillery performance, This artillery was so powerful that it was chosen as the main gun for the 120-ton heavy tank and a variety of high-powered artillery vehicles urgently developed by Japan at the end of the war to fight against Allied heavy tanks

Taisho 11 37mm flat-fire infantry sniper

Years of service: 1922-1945

Caliber: 37mm

Barrel length: 1034mm

Weight: 89.0kg

Ammunition types: armor-piercing blasting shells, anti-personnel grenades

Muzzle velocity of shells: 450m/sec

Projectile weight: 670g

Effective range: 1000m

Maximum firing range: 5000m

It is mainly used to attack machine gun positions and various bunkers, and the usual combat method is to shoot directly outside the effective range of the opponent's machine gun, and use the sniper scope to aim at the firing port to fire anti-personnel grenades when attacking strong bunkers, and the shells are directly fired into the bunker through the bunker firing port to kill and injure the personnel in the bunker, and the armor-piercing blasting shells are fired at sandbag bunkers and civil bunkers and other unsolid bunkers to attack directly, and the armor-piercing blasting shells explode after penetrating the bunkers, and the armor-piercing blasting shells can also be fired to attack armored vehicles and light tanks when necessary. This gun is equipped with infantry squadrons in the elite units of the Japanese army, and one infantry squadron is equipped with 1-2 of these guns

Type 92 70mm curved infantry gun

(If you don't know this cannon, you can go to.) ）

Years of service: 1932-1945

Caliber: 70mm

Barrel length: 790mm

Weight: 204.0kg

Ammunition types: grenades, thermite arson, blasters, chemical bombs

Muzzle velocity: 197m/sec

Projectile weight: 3.79kg

Effective Range:-

Maximum firing range: 2800m

Mainly used to attack trenches and various civil machine gun bunkers, this gun was the standard equipment of the Japanese infantry brigade, and each infantry brigade of the Japanese army was equipped with 2 guns

Type 97 20mm automatic cannon

Years of service: 1937-1945

Caliber: 20mm

The barrel length is 1200mm

Full length: 2060mm weight: 59kg

Ammunition types: armor-piercing incendiary bombs, grenades

Projectile muzzle velocity: armor-piercing incendiary bomb 750m/sec grenade 870m/sec

Reload: 7 rounds

Practical launch speed: 12 rounds per min

Effective range against combat vehicles: 1000m

Maximum firing range: 5000m

Mainly used to shoot at armored targets, followed by shooting bunkers, this 20mm gun is powerful, firing tungsten core armor-piercing incendiary shells, which can penetrate 20mm armor at a distance of 700 meters and 30mm armor at a distance of 350 meters, and the elite infantry squadrons of the Japanese army are equipped with this gun

Type 94 37mm rapid-fire gun

Years of service: 1936-1945

Caliber: 37mm

Barrel length: 1706.5mm

Weight: 327kg

Ammunition types: armor-piercing blasting bombs, grenades

Projectile weight: armor-piercing blast projectile 670g

Projectile muzzle velocity: armor-piercing blast projectile 700m/sec

Projectile penetration: homogeneous steel armor plate 40mm/500m, 30mm/1000m

Range against combat vehicles: 1200m

Effective range: 2870m

Maximum firing range: 5700m

Mainly used to shoot armored targets, the gun is a copy of the German KWK36 37mm anti-tank gun, in the KWK36 37mm anti-tank gun design stage on the contract to purchase the information, in 1936 the whole gun was completed, because Japan is unwilling to use the cap-piercing projectile without explosive effect, the Japanese army insists on using the armor-piercing projectile, so the Type 94 rapid-fire gun at the same distance, the armor-piercing ability is about 10mm lower than the KWK36 type 37mm anti-tank gun fired by the cap-piercing projectile. The Type 94 37mm rapid-fire gun was also selected by the Japanese Type 95 light tank and was called the Type 94 tank gun

Type 1 37mm rapid-fire gun

Years of service: 1941-1945

Caliber: 37mm

Barrel length: 1850.5mm

Weight: 335kg

Ammunition types: armor-piercing blasting bombs, grenades

Projectile weight:-

Projectile muzzle velocity: armor-piercing blast projectile 780m/sec

Projectile penetration: homogeneous steel armor plate 60mm/500m

Range against combat vehicles: 1300m

Effective Range:-

Maximum firing range: 6300m

Mainly used to shoot armored targets, the gun is an improved version of the Type 94 rapid-fire gun, absorbing the Japanese Type 94 37mm rapid-fire gun in the Womengang incident, the Japanese Type 94 37mm rapid-fire gun, easy to ricochet when shooting at large inclination angles, the penetration is not strong, and it cannot penetrate the lessons of the Maozi additional BT7 tank at a long distance, and the chamber and barrel of the Type 94 37mm rapid-fire gun are lengthened and thickened, so that it can fire shells with a longer warhead, more propellant and heavier weight, and the original improved version is called the Type 98 37mm rapid-fire gun, After further improvement, it was called the Type 100 37mm rapid-fire gun and was used in the Type 98 light tank, and the most was further modified to strengthen the power and named the Type 1 37mm rapid-fire gun, and the Type 1 37mm rapid-fire gun was called the Type 1 tank gun when it was mounted on the tank

Type 1 47mm rapid-fire gun

Years of service: 1941-1945

Caliber: 47mm

Barrel length: 2526.5mm

Weight: 800kg

Ammunition types: armor-piercing blasting bombs, grenades

Projectile weight: armor-piercing blast projectile 1.5kg

Projectile muzzle velocity: armor-piercing blast projectile 830m/sec

Projectile penetration: homogeneous steel armor plate 75mm/500m, 50mm/1200m

Range against combat vehicles: 1500m

Effective Range:-

Maximum firing range: 6900m

Mainly used to shoot armored targets, the gun is based on the Maozi 45mm anti-tank gun captured in the Rumenkan incident, developed from the more powerful, and was adopted by the 97 modified combat vehicle, called the Type 1 47mm tank gun, this rapid-fire gun played a huge role in the early Pacific War, but because it was not capped armor-piercing shells, it was very difficult to fight against the late M4 medium tank of the US army in the late war

Type 96 25mm anti-aircraft gun

(Return me "Yamato")

Years of service: 1936-1945

Caliber: 25mm

Barrel length: 1500mm (L60)

Pitch angle: -5to+80 degrees

Azimuth firing range: 360 degrees

Muzzle velocity of projectile: 860m/sec

Full Gun Weight:-

Reload: 15 round magazine

Anti-air range: 7500m

Air-fired height: 5250m

Launch speed: 220 rounds / min

Mainly used for field air defense can also shoot at ground targets, this anti-aircraft machine gun is developed by the navy, the army has also ordered a batch, but this kind of machine gun operators are many, the magazine capacity is small, the loading speed is slow, the firing speed is not high, the initial velocity of the projectile is not very high, after the successful development of the Type 98 20mm anti-aircraft gun, the army will no longer order, but the navy has always insisted on using it, mostly for the triple loading carrier, but it is difficult to load during the launch of the middle tube, the distance between the two tubes is too far, and the loader is not well equipped, it is difficult to load at the same time, In fact, after the first salvo, it is only quite a single firepower, this kind of anti-aircraft gun is actually not very suitable for air defense, but suitable for shooting ground targets, but because the Japanese Navy and the army have a deep contradiction, the navy with a deep sense of superiority resolutely does not use much better performance, but it is a 20mm anti-aircraft gun independently developed by the army, and has always insisted on 25mm anti-aircraft guns, so the short-range anti-aircraft fire of Japanese ships is very poor, it is difficult to resist air raids, and after the war, it is called a ship that lacks the basic survivability of the Pacific theater. Massively sunk by planes during the war.

During the war, the antiaircraft guns equipped with the ships of the Japanese Navy were all unsuitable for air defense operations, so once the enemy planes broke through the long-range air defense, the anti-aircraft firepower of the Japanese ships was basically powerless; even if the battleships equipped with hundreds of antiaircraft guns were helpless in the face of a few enemy planes in the air, and it was very difficult to shoot down the enemy planes by close range anti-aircraft fire, and the poor performance of the antiaircraft guns and the insistence on not using the army's antiaircraft guns were actually an important reason for the defeat of the Japanese Navy. However, this type of anti-aircraft gun is still very powerful against lightly armored targets on the ground.

Type 96 25mm combined anti-aircraft gun

Years of service: 1936-1945

Caliber: 25mm

Barrel length: 1500mm (L60)

Pitch angle: -5to+80 degrees

Azimuth firing range: 360 degrees or according to the ship's installation position

Muzzle velocity of the whole projectile: 860m/sec

Full Gun Weight:-

Reload: 15 round magazine

Anti-air range: 7500m

Air-fired height: 5250m

Launch speed: 440 rounds / min

The combined type of Type 96 25mm anti-aircraft guns is only equipped by the navy, and is used for air defense of important places or ships, and the firepower density is higher than that of single installation, but the number of equipment of the Japanese Navy's Type 96 25mm anti-aircraft guns is very small, and the vast majority of them are triple Type C.

96 triple 25mm anti-aircraft guns

(Navy, can you pit it a little more??? ）

Years of service: 1936-1945

Caliber: 25mm

Barrel length: 1500mm (L60)

Pitch angle: -5to+80 degrees

Azimuth range: 360 degrees or adjusted according to the ship's installation position

Muzzle velocity of projectile: 860m/sec

Full Gun Weight:-

Reload: 15 round magazine

Anti-air range: 7500m

Air-fired height: 5250m

Launch speed: 660 rounds / min

The triple installation of the Type 96 25mm anti-aircraft gun, only naval equipment, used for the air defense of important places or ships, due to the unreasonable design and gunner configuration, this type of anti-aircraft gun only has a large fire density in the first salvo, and there is no difference between the fire density of the single gun when firing continuously, and the Type 96 25mm anti-aircraft gun is a waste of space, a waste of resources, a waste of cost, but there is no actual performance of the product, However, the vast majority of the anti-aircraft guns of the Japanese Navy were 25mm anti-aircraft guns in triple loads.

Type 98 20mm anti-aircraft gun

(Sure enough, I look down on the "dirt bun" army.) ）

Years of service: 1938-1945

Caliber: 20mm

Barrel length: 1400mm (L70)

Pitch angle: -5to +85 degrees

Azimuth firing range: 360 degrees

Projectile muzzle velocity: 950m/sec

Full gun weight: 373kg

Reload: 20 round magazine

Anti-air range: 5500m

Air-fired height: 3500m

Launch speed: 300 rounds per min

Mainly used for field air defense can also shoot at ground targets, the bullet type and the Type 97 infantry automatic gun can be universal, because the body tube is longer, the penetration power is greater than the Type 97 infantry automatic gun when shooting ground armored weapons, this anti-aircraft cannon is based on the Swiss Erlikong 20mm anti-aircraft cannon developed, the performance is very good, in terms of air defense capabilities are far stronger than the Type 96 25mm anti-aircraft gun, but because this gun is independently manufactured by the army, and the Navy has always looked down on the army, Therefore, the navy did not equip itself with this kind of anti-aircraft machine gun, and insisted on only equipping it with Type 96 25mm anti-aircraft guns, which had low air defense efficiency, and this resulted in an extremely low air defense capability of naval ships at the near level, and they were unable to effectively resist the bombing of enemy planes, and as a result, the Japanese navy was finally defeated.

Type 1 37mm anti-aircraft gun

(I'm speechless about the Navy already.) ）

Years of service: 1941-1945

Caliber: 37mm

Barrel Length: 2112mm (L57)

Pitch angle: -5to+80 degrees

Azimuth firing range: 360 degrees

Projectile muzzle velocity:—

Full gun weight: 1570kg

Reload:—

Anti-aircraft range:—

Anti-air launch height:—

Launch Speed:—

Mainly used for field air defense and key air defense can also shoot at ground targets, this kind of anti-aircraft cannon has high precision, great power, long range, is the Japanese Army independently developed anti-aircraft machine guns, recognized as the best performance of the Japanese army during the war anti-aircraft guns, but the Navy insisted on not using it, after the war the Americans inspected the Type 1 37mm anti-aircraft guns and believed that if the Japanese Navy ships were equipped with Type 1 37mm anti-aircraft guns, the air defense capabilities of the Japanese ships would be doubled, and the outcome of many naval battles would be rewritten. It will have a significant impact on the outcome of the war.

Taisho 11 75mm anti-aircraft gun

Years of service: 1922-1945

Caliber: 75mm

Barrel length: 2562mm (L34)

Pitch angle: 0to+85 degrees

Azimuth firing range: 360 degrees

Projectile weight: 6.5kg

Muzzle velocity of projectile: 525m/sec

Full gun weight: 2061kg

Ground range: 10900m

Anti-air range: 7900m

Anti-air launch height: 6650m

Used for field air defense, key air defense, is the first anti-aircraft gun of the Japanese Army, it can be regarded as very advanced at that time, but it has become obsolete when the war broke out, the reaction speed and initial velocity of the projectile, it is difficult to deal with high-speed aircraft in wartime, and it is often used as a suppressive artillery on the battlefield to shell ground targets

Taisho 14 type 105mm anti-aircraft gun

(Devil's version of "88 guns")

Years of service: 1925-1945

Caliber: 105mm

Barrel length: 4200mm (L40)

Pitch angle: 0to+85 degrees

Azimuth firing range: 360 degrees

Projectile weight: 16kg

Muzzle velocity of projectile: 700m/sec

Full gun weight: 5194kg

Ground range: 16900m

Anti-aircraft range:—

Air-to-air launch height: 10500m

Used for field air defense, air defense of key areas, after the outbreak of the Pacific War, this anti-aircraft gun still poses a certain threat to most models of US heavy bombers. In addition, the 100-type 100-ton heavy tank manufactured by the Japanese army in 1941 also used the Taisho 14-year 105mm anti-aircraft gun as the main gun, called the 14-year 105mm tank gun, which was still very powerful for anti-combat vehicles, enough to destroy the heavy tanks of the Allied forces.

Type 88 75mm anti-aircraft gun

Years of service: 1927-1945

Caliber: 75mm

Barrel length: 3312mm (L44)

Pitch angle: 0to+85 degrees

Azimuth firing range: 360 degrees

Projectile weight: 6.54kg

Projectile muzzle velocity: 720m/sec

Full gun weight: 2450kg

Ground range: 14800m

Anti-air range: 12100m

Air-to-air launch height: 9100m

Used for field air defense, key air defense, is the main force of the Japanese Army during the war 75mm anti-aircraft gun, when in service is one of the best 75mm anti-aircraft guns in the world at that time, but the outbreak of the war air defense performance has been backward, it is very difficult to deal with high-speed aircraft, and can not effectively attack high-altitude bombers, the battlefield can also be used as a suppression artillery, at the end of the war in addition to air defense the most important task is actually to act as an anti-tank artillery, at the end of the war 4 type tank is to use the 88 type 75mm anti-aircraft gun as the main gun, Called the Type 4 tank gun, it can easily penetrate the turret shield of the US M4 medium tank at a distance of 1,000 meters, but the most powerful Type 4 medium tank is the more powerful Type 4 75mm anti-aircraft gun, which is called the Type 5 75mm tank gun.

Type 99 88mm anti-aircraft gun

Years of service: 1939-1945

Caliber: 88mm

Barrel length: 3959mm (L44.9)

Pitch angle: -11to +85 degrees

Azimuth firing range: 360 degrees

Projectile weight: 9kg

Projectile muzzle velocity: 800m/sec

Gun weight: 6500kg

Ground range: 15700m

Anti-aircraft range:—

Air-fired height: 10420m

Used for field air defense, key air defense, is the Japanese Army based on the German Navy captured in China L44 body tube 88mm anti-aircraft gun manufacturing, performance than the original gun has been improved, but than the German Army L56 body tube of the 88mm anti-aircraft gun still has a certain power gap, at the end of the war is also ready to be mounted on the Type 5 tank, called the Type 5 88mm tank gun, but the Japanese army after the most choice of armor-piercing power is basically the same, but the accuracy of the Type 4 75mm anti-aircraft gun as the main gun of the Type 4 and Type 5 tank.

Type 3 120mm anti-aircraft gun

Years of service: 1943-1945

Caliber: 120mm

Barrel Length: 6710mm (L56)

Tilt angle: 8to+90 degrees

Azimuth firing range: 360 degrees

Projectile weight: 23.4kg

Projectile muzzle velocity: 853m/sec

Full gun weight: 19808kg

Ground range:—

Anti-aircraft range:—

Air-to-air launch height: 14000m

It is the main anti-aircraft gun of the Japanese Army that can resist the B29 high-altitude bombing during the war, and it is all deployed in the local area, but the number is too small, and there are only 120 in total in the country, so the results are limited.

Type 4 75mm anti-aircraft gun

(Looks like an anti-aircraft gun in the "Red Alert.") ）

Years of service: 1944-1945

Caliber: 75mm

Barrel Length: 4230mm (L56.4)

Pitch angle: 0to+85 degrees

Azimuth firing range: 360 degrees

Projectile weight: 6.25kg

Muzzle velocity of projectile: 860m/sec

Full gun weight: 5850kg

Ground range: 17600m

Anti-air range: 15000m

Air-to-air launch height: 11000m

Used for field air defense, key air defense, is the most advanced 75mm anti-aircraft gun of the Japanese Army during the war, and is also one of the best 75mm anti-aircraft guns in the world at that time, accuracy, range, power, and reaction speed are the world's first-class level, but it appeared too late, the number of wartime deployments is not large, all deployed in the local area, at the end of the war is the key production of anti-aircraft guns in Japan.

At the end of the war, the Japanese Army's Type 4 medium tank and Type 5 medium tank were most likely to use Type 4 75mm anti-aircraft guns as the main gun, which was extremely powerful and capable of destroying Allied heavy tanks head-on, and was called Type 5 75mm tank guns

Type 5 150mm anti-aircraft gun

Year of service: 1945

Caliber: 149.1mm

Barrel length: 9000mm (L60)

Pitch angle: 0to+85 degrees

Azimuth firing range: 360 degrees

Projectile weight: 80kg

Muzzle velocity of projectile: 1000m/sec

Full gun weight: 50000kg

Ground range:—

Anti-air range: 26000m

Air-to-air launch height: >19000m

Used for air defense in key areas, it is a super anti-aircraft gun made by the Japanese Army during the war, with huge power, an automatic loader, high rate of fire, high precision, it is the world's most powerful super long-range anti-aircraft gun, the weight of the projectile fired by this gun is unbelievably high, and the B29 used to attack the high altitude has special effects, but only 2 were manufactured before the end of the war, all deployed on an anti-aircraft gun position outside Tokyo, and only a few dozen shells were fired during the war, most of which were used for shooting range tests, Only 1 shell was fired at the enemy, and 1 shell damaged 3 B29 bombers flying at an altitude of 9800 meters!

However, this kind of anti-aircraft artillery is a fort placement, it is difficult to maneuver, and the US B29 group has not passed through the area where the Type 5 150mm anti-aircraft guns have been deployed since the bombing of Tokyo since it was hit by that 1 bomb, so the Type 5 150mm anti-aircraft guns did not play a role in defending Tokyo from being bombed by the B29, and the fundamental reason is that the number is too small to be deployed around Tokyo, otherwise the B29 will not be able to bomb the Tokyo area at all.

The Taisho 10 grenadier canister has a caliber of 50 mm, weighs very light and only 2.6 kg, and has a range of 175 meters. It was designed primarily for the Japanese military to be able to bridge the gap in firepower between medium mortars and individual grenades, while at the same time being able to significantly enhance the firepower of infantry squads. The Taisho 10-year grenadier served in the Japanese army for 25 years until the defeat of the Japanese army in World War II.

However, the Taisho 10-style itself was not very good, its range was too short (less than 200 meters), which made it impossible for soldiers to use it at a relatively safe distance, and its accuracy was not good, which made it quickly replaced by the later 89-type grenadier canister.

The 89 type grenadier is an improved version of the Taisho decade, the caliber is also 50 mm, the total length of the gun is 413 mm, the length of the barrel is 260 mm, the weight of the whole gun is 2.7 kg, the weight of the barrel is 1.6 kg, the length of the barrel foot is 170 mm, the weight of the barrel plate is 1.1 kg, the height of the foot plate is 60 mm, the width of the foot plate is 67 mm, the maximum firing range is 700 meters, and the effective firing range is 500 meters.

The left is the Taisho 10-year style, and the right is the 89-style style

The Fengtian Arsenal of the Northeast Army was the most advanced and largest military enterprise in China at that time. The establishment of this factory embodies the hard work of Zhang Zuolin and Zhang Xueliang's father and son. In April 1922, Zhang Zuolin was defeated in the Battle of Zhifeng, learned from the pain, and decided to set up a large-scale military enterprise and improve the equipment of the troops. Zhang Zuolin accepted Zhang Xueliang's suggestion and changed the original Fengtian Ordnance Factory into the Arsenal of the Three Eastern Provinces. Re-planning outside the gate of Dadong in Shenyang City, setting up three factories for guns, shells, cannons, etc., which were built by the Danish merchant Winther Company, and sent a technician to guide the installation of the factory, on the west side of the warehouse, the platform was built, the rails were laid, and the train could go directly to the factory. After that, from 1926 to 1928, it was expanded again, adding a gun factory and a light machine gun factory, with more than 8,000 machines. Due to the proper use of its superintendents Yang Yuting, Han Linchun, Tibetan Yi, etc., the factory developed rapidly and became the largest arsenal in the country at that time.