Type 92

The Type 92 (called the "Woodpecker" by the Americans) was a heavy machine gun used extensively by the Imperial Japanese Army. It entered service in 1932. It was also used by Chinese forces extensively because many were captured. The 'Type 92' refers to the Imperial Japanese year it was introduced, 1892.

Design


This gun was a scaled up version of the Type 3 HMG, with a larger caliber. It was air cooled and used 30 round belts. It could use rimmed or rimless rounds. The 7.7mm Arisaka round could be used if other ammo supplies were low. The gun had a fire rate of 450 rpm, and had a practical range of 800m, and a maximum effective range of 4500m (nearly 3 miles). This gun was nicknamed 'The Woodpecker' due to the characteristic sound it made. This gun was intended to be used on a tripod by a team of three men, a firer, a spotter and a reloader. This gun was used as a light Anti-Aircraft gun, and like many other Japanese small arms, was designed by Kijiro Nambu.

The iron sights, bizarrely were slightly to the right. A variety of sights were produced, a telescopic sight, a periscopic sight and an Anti-Aircraft sight.

In Call of Duty: World at War
This gun is the mounted machine gun of the Imperial Japanese Army. It is found mounted in Semper Fi, Little Resistance, Hard Landing, Burn 'em Out, and Breaking Point. One pins down the player and his squad in Blowtorch & Corkscrew and Burn 'em Out. It has the ability to rip soldiers apart, just as the Mounted MG42 of the Eastern Front.

The weapon can be used in its mounted form whenever the player overtakes a Japanese emplacement in which one or more was mounted. However, due to direction in which the weapons are mounted, they are rarely ever in a useful position (an exception being one in the level Breaking Point, where Roebuck tells you to "use their own guns against them" to tear up retreating Japanese soldiers). It has a much slower rate of fire than the other mounted machine guns encountered by the player, but it makes up for this by overheating at a slower rate.

This is one of the few usable weapons from the singleplayer campaign that is completely absent from multiplayer.