I don't think the Type 89 guns are as bad as everyone makes out. Their rate of fire, 900 rpm, is the same as the Vickers E but the velocity of each round is 810 m/s. That is 80 m/s faster than the .303 used in the Vickers. Mind you, the Type 89 is a derivative of the Vickers E but the Vickers is the follow up to the Maxim gun which went into service in 1866. A bit of trivia: my Grandpa, an English WW1 veteran, served in the Canadian army during WW2 training crews on the Vickers. Another interesting fact: in a test a Vickers gun fired a total of one million rounds stopping only to replace barrels (100).
