actually the US army only issued Thompson submachine guns to Sergeants and such, and the germans also mostly used their K98 karbine, the MP40 submachine gun was only given to platoon leaders the first army to use large numbers of submachine guns was the Soviet Union which fielded entire units armed with the Ppsh41, which forced the germans to get as many of those as they could lay their hands on, since there was nowhere near enough MP40's
The Japanese Arisaka rifles (the bolt action ones) were all based on the Mauser design. the Type-99 machine gun looks like a Bren, but the internals are very different. The submachine gun is a close copy of the MP-18.
the "fidgetyness" is because of the "dust" cover on the bolt, most of the soldiers removed them for that exact reason. I have one of these and can have a new round chambered and ready to fire in less than a second, without it ever leaving my shoulder. the bolt acts very fast without the dust cover, they are a good design if you have one of the early models...the later ones are consider"last ditch" guns and were made cheaply
some of the modern weapons the use is howa type 89 which is assult rifle howa type 96 which is automatic grenade launcher and howa type 64 which is a battle rifle ,Minebea PM-9 submachine gun,Sumitomo NTK-62 machine gun
The Arisaka is super underrated bro, that dust cover design is honestly genius and I'm surprised nobody else came up with that design. Best bolt cycle sound ever. English comment btw
Though that dust cover was often removed by the Japanese troops themselves, because it was noisy during action while Japanese relied on surprise and ambushes on jungle warfare during Pacific campaign. It was stated in this History Channel itself!
It is basically the Kar98 or Mauser C98 but chambered in nambu rounds, not that its a bad thing considering its inferior quality, especially the pistol cartridges 😬, but I do like the idea that the clips can be given to the person responsible with the squad automatic weapon in case they run out of munitions for suppression fire, it was genius, but at one point they decided they could be able to mount a bayonet on a type 11 which is dumb, overall arisaka firearms are a double edge sword quite to the contrary of the samurais principle of welding single bladed weapons
@@Cyan_Nightingale That's a myth and is completely untrue! The bolt was part of the rifle, which was also part of the emperors property. Tampering with the emperors property was very illegal and one would face very serious consequences by doing so. There's no proof in pictures nor accounts of Japanese soldiers themselves removing the bolt. Ian from forgotten weapons himself has said that the arisaka rifles lacking the bolt cover was because all bolts was to be removed when bringing back to the US. Meaning that when someone reinstalled the bolts they most likely didn't bother attaching the bolt cover again.
I did not know they aired this in Japan! I loved watching this episode when I was a kid being fascinated by Japanese weapons. If you like the Zero you would love this movie scene: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lJ1wE7Fx9a8.html Much Love from America.
