Naval machine guns
| This page is about the Japanese machine gun Type 93 (13.2 mm). For other uses, see Type 93 (Disambiguation). |
The 13.2 mm Type 93 is a Japanese heavy machine gun used on naval vessels. The Type 93 is a license-produced version of the French Hotchkiss Mle 1930.
| Vehicles equipped with this weapon | |
|---|---|
| Motor torpedo boats | Type T-14 |
| Sub-chasers | Type K-8 No.13 · Type K-8 No.13 late |
| Destroyers | IJN Ayanami · IJN Kiyoshimo · IJN Shimakaze |
| Light cruisers | IJN Mikuma · IJN Sendai · IJN Suzuya |
| Heavy cruisers | IJN Furutaka · IJN Kako · IJN Mogami |
| Battleships | IJN Fuso |
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| Penetration statistics | |||||||
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| Ammunition | Penetration @ 0° Angle of Attack (mm) | ||||||
| 10 m | 100 m | 500 m | 1,000 m | 1,500 m | 2,000 m | ||
| AP | 28 | 27 | 24 | 20 | 17 | 14 | |
| T | 25 | 24 | 21 | 17 | 14 | 11 | |
| IAI | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |
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| Ammunition | Velocity (m/s) |
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| 0% | 50% | 100% | ||||||||||
| AP | 805 | 0.05 | - | - | - | 47° | 56° | 65° | ||||
| T | 805 | 0.04 | - | - | - | 47° | 56° | 65° | ||||
| IAI | 805 | 0.04 | 0 | 0.1 | 1.7 | 47° | 56° | 65° | ||||
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The Type 93 (13.2 mm) was a license-built French Hotchkiss M1929 heavy machine gun which saw wide use with Japanese forces. First licensed units were manufactured in 1935, reaching 1,500 units a month by 1944. Type 93 saw extremely wide use in Imperial Japanese Navy but was also used by the Imperial Army as a stand-alone heavy machine gun (primarily in anti-aircraft emplacements) or equipped on vehicles, such as Type 92 Tankettes.
The gun had a total length of 1.4 m and an empty weight of 42 kg. Magazine of only 30 rounds firing at 450 rpm allowed for a continuous fire of 4 seconds before the gun had to be reloaded. The maximum vertical range of the weapon was 4,000 m or 6,000 m when aimed at a 45° angle.
Four primary types of ammunition were used: Armour-piercing, Incendiary, Tracer and Exercise.
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| Naval machine guns | |
|---|---|
| USA | |
| 7.62 mm | M73 |
| 12.7 mm | AN-M2 |
| Germany | |
| 7.62 mm | MG-3 |
| 7.92 mm | MG08 pattern 1908 · MG15 · MG34 |
| 13.2 mm | Hotchkiss |
| 15 mm | MG M38(t) |
| USSR | |
| 7.62 mm | Maxim |
| 12.7 mm | DShK |
| 14.5 mm | KPV |
| Britain | |
| 7.62 mm | FN MAG |
| 7.7 mm | Lewis 1916 · Vickers GO No.5 |
| 12.7 mm | Vickers Mk.V |
| Japan | |
| 6.5 mm | Maxim · Type 38 pattern 1907 |
| 7.7 mm | Type 89 · Type 92 |
| 13.2 mm | Type 93 |
| Italy | |
| 6.5 mm | Breda Mod.30 · Fiat Model 26 |
| 12.7 mm | Breda-SAFAT |
| 13.2 mm | Breda Model 31 |
| France | |
| 7.7 mm | Darne M1922 |
| 7.92 mm | Hotchkiss pattern 1914 |
| 13.2 mm | Browning · Model 1929 Hotchkiss |