Type 99

The Type 99 light machine gun is a Japanese weapon used during World War II. It is an improved version of its predecessor: the Type 96 light machine gun, and was inspired from the Czechoslovakian ZB vz. 26 light machine gun (like the British Bren), and was also an evolution of the Japanese Type 11 light machine gun. Kijirō Nambu designed the Type 99, like many other Japanese firearms.The weapon's greatest change compared to its predecessor is the use of the 7.7mm Arisaka catridge in place of the weaker 6.5mm Arisaka round. As in the Imperial Japanese Army bayonets were widely used, the Type 99 light machine gun has a mount for one.

Call of Duty: World at War
The Type 99 is one of the weapons the player automatically gets when he unlocks the "Create-a-Class" option (until that, you can use it from the default classes) and has fair accuracy and high rate of fire. It is best used to provide covering fire in multiplayer.

Its high rate of fire eats up the magazine quite quickly, though, the bayonet attachment provides useful CQC prowess as the Bipod would be rather useless and it is the only MG to have the Bayonet attachment. When using the iron sights the the guns ammo attachment obstructs much of the players view making it much harder to track a target.

The Type 99 is a rare, but powerful weapon used by the Imperial Japanese Army during the Pacific Campaign. It is very annoying if played on veteran or hardened difficulty, as it's users are extremely accurate and can tear the player or even entire groups of marines to shreds. When playing campaign mode, soldiers wielding this weapon should be your primary target. This gun is rarely found in the middle of the Pacific Campaign but when getting to the final Japanese missions at Breaking Point and Blowtorch and Corkscrew, it becomes almost as common as the Type 100 SMG.

Triva

 * It is the only MG to have a Bayonet on it, though in real life, the bipod had a bayonet attached


 * It looks quite similar to the Bren Gun of previous Call of Duty games; this is due to their shared ancestry, as both are derived to some degree from the Czech ZB vz/26.


 * It fires the same ammo as the Arisaka rifle, yet it has lower damage.


 * It has an ammo counter system on the bottom of the magazine that does not work in game; the real machine gun's counter easily broke.


 * The real Type 99 was sometimes equipped with a folding monopod under the stock, which is not seen in-game.