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Arisaka Type 38
三八式歩兵銃
Description
A Mauser-derived Japanese bolt-action rifle with mild recoil thanks to its light cartridge. It armed the Imperial army until 1945.
Historical use
- Second Sino-Japanese War
- Second World War
Technical data
- Year
- 1905
- Service
- 1905–1945
- Country
- Japan
- Maker
- Arsenal de Koishikawa (Tokio)
- Designer
- Kijirō Nambu
- Type
- Rifle
- Mechanism
- Bolt action
- Calibre
- 6,5 × 50 mm SR Arisaka
- Weight
- 3.95 kg
- Length
- 1,275 mm
- Barrel
- 797 mm
- Capacity
- 5 rounds
- Units made
- ≈ 3,400,000
Source: Wikidata Q663662
