Type 92 Heavy Machine Gun

Type 92 Heavy Machine Gun. All blued metal construction except for the wooden downward hinging traverse handles. The receiver has Japanese characters on the top indicating the Type 92 with the serial number, the Kokura arsenal triple ring trade mark and 11.12 (December 1936) on the left side. The barrel has machined cooling fins for half its length towards the muzzle. The barrel jacket has larger cooling fins from the receiver to approximately half way along the barrel. It has a large cocking handle on the right side of the action. The weapon is fed by a Hotchkiss design 30 round ammunition strip. The lubricator oiler container to assist with cartridge extraction is missing.

This weapon was captured from the Viet Cong in Vietnam by Australian forces and was commonly referred to as the 'woodpecker' due to the noise it made when fired.