


Type 99 Mark 1 Aircraft Autocannon
Country of Origin | Japan |
Type | Aircraft Autocannon |
Caliber | 20.000 mm |
Length | 1.330 m |
Weight | 23.000 kg |
Ammunition Weight | 0.13 kg |
Rate of Fire | 520 rounds/min |
Muzzle Velocity | 600 m/s |
Contributor: C. Peter Chen
ww2dbaseThis article deals with a Japanese aircraft autocannon variant of the Oerlikon 20-millimeter design. For other aircraft autocannon variants, please see Type 99 Mark 2 and 20 mm MG-FF Oerlikon. For the design's land and ship-based anti-aircraft applications, please see 20 mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft.
Type 99 Mark 1
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In 1935, the Japanese Navy began searching for 20-millimeter autocannons/machine guns to arm future fighter aircraft. It settled on the designs by the Swiss firm Oerlikon in 1937. A newly formed company, Dai Nihon Heiki KK, established by retired Navy officers, purchased two licenses from Oerlikon, one for Oerlikon FF and another for Oerlikon FFL, to produce Type 99 Mark 1 Machine Guns (Kyukyu Shiki Ichigo Kizyu) and Type 99 Mark 2 Machine Guns (Kyukyu Shiki Nigo Kizyu), respectively.
Type 99 Mark 1 machine guns were used in both fixed and flexible applications. The fixed installation application was developed first, mounted in the wings of the early variants of A6M Zero fighters. Each weapon was fed by a 60-round drum. The flexible application was first seen on G3M bombers. The drum limitation was later addressed in the 4th variant of the Type Mark 1, which introduced belt-feeding. Mark 1 weapons fired a smaller cartridge than their Mark 2 counterparts, and enjoyed a higher rate of fire, although they had a lower muzzle velocity. Toward the end of the war, they slowly fell out of favor, and were slowly overtaken by Mark 2 machine guns.
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