Type 99 rifle
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The Type 99 rifle or Type 99 short rifle was a bolt-action rifle of the Arisaka design used by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.
A Type 99 short rifle between a Mosin-Nagant 91-30 rifle (above) and Nagant M1895 revolver
The flip-up anti-aircraft rear sights of a Type 99 rifle. The calipers on the sides are to determine the speed of the targeted aircraft. The vertical ladder is for adjusting the range of fire for land targets.
Full view of a late war Type 99
Buttstock of the Type 99
Arisaka
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The Arisaka rifle is a family of Japanese military bolt-action service rifles, which were produced and used from approximately 1897, when it replaced the Murata rifle family, until the end of World Wa
Type 99 rifle
…The Type 99 rifle or Type 99 short rifle (九九式短小銃, Kyūkyū-shiki tan-shōjū) was a bolt-action rifle of the Arisaka design used by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. During the Second Sino-Japanese War in the 1930s, the Japanese Army found that the 7.7mm…
Various Arisaka rifles on display at the Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution
A Type 38 with its imperial seal intact
A Type 99 with its imperial seal ground