Type 92 heavy machine gun

The Type 92 heavy machine gun was essentially a Type 3 heavy machine gun chambered for the larger 7.7x58mm SR round; as, with its cousin, it is a derivative of the Hotchkiss M1914 Machine Gun. Due to its relatively slow rate of fire, the allies nicknamed it "the woodpecker" while Chinese soldiers called it the "chicken neck" due to its appearance. The gun was almost always employed from a special heavyweight tripod which included holes on the front legs, allowing rods to be passed through so the gun crew could move the weapon by carrying it like a stretcher. Notably it was one of the few WW2 machine guns commonly issued with optics, with several sights being designed specifically for it.
While it was extremely accurate (only weighing five pounds less than a tripod-mounted Browning M2 while firing a rifle cartridge will do that) this was to the point that it was detrimental to its function as a suppression weapon, and it depended on an obsolete loading method with 30-round feed strips that had to be inserted extremely carefully to avoid misfeeds: just to make matters worse, the Japanese were not done with obsolete features and incorporated an integral oiler into the design to ensure reliability, which in the jungles of the Pacific theatre ensured quite the opposite. It also used specially-made ammunition which did not help with logistics at all (Imperial Japan used a total of four non-interchangeable 7.7x58mm Arisaka cartridges): rifle ammo would physically fit in the Type 92 but was unable to cycle it.
==Specifications==
(1932 - 1941)
Type: Heavy Machine Gun*
Caliber: 7.7x58mm SR
Capacity: 30 round feed strip
Fire Modes: Fully Automatic (450 rounds per minute)
*Really the Type 92 should be considered a medium machine gun, as it fires a rifle bullet and does not have any capacity to accept a belt feed; only the enormous weight of the weapon (122 pounds with a tripod) really qualifies it as a "heavy" machine gun.
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===Film===
Title 	Actor 	Character 	Note 	Date
Flying Leathernecks 	 	Imperial Japanese Soldiers	 	1951
Halls of Montezuma 	 	Imperial Japanese Soldiers	 	1951
Between Heaven and Hell 	 	Imperial Japanese soldiers	 	1956
Merrill's Marauders 	 	Imperial Japanese Soldiers	 	1962
Beach Red 	 	Imperial Japanese Soldiers	 	1967
Japan's Longest Day 	 	Japanese soldiers 	 	1967
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence	 	Imperial Japanese Soldiers	 	1983
Farewell To The King 	 	Imperial Japanese Soldiers	 	1989
Windtalkers 	 	Imperial Japanese Soldiers	 	2002
Flags of Our Fathers 	 	Imperial Japanese Soldiers	 	2006
Kokoda 	 	Imperial Japanese Soldiers	 	2006
Letters from Iwo Jima 	 	Imperial Japanese Soldiers	 	2006
Letters from Iwo Jima 	Ryô Kase	Superior Private Shimizu 	 	2006
Letters from Iwo Jima 	 	Imperial Japanese Soldiers	 	2006
Philosophy of a Knife 	 	 	archive footage	2008
The Children of Huang Shi 	 	Imperial Japanese Soldiers	 	2008
The Good, the Bad, the Weird	 	Imperial Japanese Soldiers	 	2008
City of Life and Death 	 	Imperial Japanese Soldiers	 	2009
Kokoda 	 	Imperial Japanese Soldiers	 	2010
Death and Glory in Changde 	 	Imperial Japanese soldiers	 	2010
Emperor 	 	Japanese soldiers 	 	2013
The Taking of Tiger Mountain	 	 	 	2014
Hacksaw Ridge 	 	Imperial Japanese soldiers	In bunkers 	2016
===Television===
Show Title / Episode 	Actor 	Character 	Notes 	Air Date
The Twilight Zone 	 	Imperial Japanese Soldiers	"The Last Testament" (S1E19)	1959 - 1960
Baa Baa Black Sheep 	 	Imperial Japanese Soldiers	 	1976 - 1978
The Cowra Breakout 	 	Imperial Japanese Soldiers	 	1984
Mail Call 	R. Lee Ermey	Himself 	 	2002 – 2009
The Pacific 	 	Imperial Japanese Soldiers	 	2010
Gyeongseong Creature - Season 1	 	 	 	2023
===Video Games===
Game Title 	Appears as 	Notes 	Release Date
Forgotten Hope 	 	 	2003
Hidden & Dangerous 2 	 	 	2003
Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault 	 	 	2004
Call of Duty: World at War 	 	 	2008
Call of Duty: World at War - Final Fronts	 	 	2008
Call of Duty: Black Ops 	 	As a sentry turret in zombie mode, as well as a mounted machine gun in "Victor Charlie"	2010
L.A. Noire 	 	Non-Usable 	2010
Red Orchestra 2: Rising Storm 	 	 	2013
Far East War 	"Type 92 Heavy Machine Gun"	 	2013
Enlisted 	"HMG Type-92" 	Stationary 	2021
=== Anime ===
Title 	Character	Note	Date
First Squad: The Moment of Truth	 	 	2009
Category:Gun
Category:Machine Gun