Type 3 heavy machine gun

, also known as the Taishō 14 machine gun, was a Japanese air-cooled heavy machine gun.

Design
The Type 3 heavy machine gun was based on the design of the Hotchkiss M1914. Although the Hotchkiss used 8mm cartridges, from 1914 Japan produced the Type 3 under license from Hotchkiss using the 6.5x50mm Arisaka ammunition.

It used an ammo strip for loading rounds. Its tripod could be used as an anti-aircraft mounting, and special anti-aircraft sights were provided.

Users
 : Chile bought several hundred Type 3 machine guns in 7×57mm Mauser as Modelo 1920. Barrels were manufactured in France by Hotchkiss but most of the weapon was made at the Kokura arsenal.
 : Purchased for Chang Tso-lin's Fengtian Army. Later used by the Collaborationist Chinese Army
 
 : It was used by the Korean People's Army during the Korean War.

Notes

External links
Japanese machineguns of WW2
 Catalog of Enemy Ordnance

Category:Heavy machine guns
Category:Machine guns of Japan
Category:World War I machine guns
Category:World War I Japanese infantry weapons
Category:World War II infantry weapons of Japan
Category:World War II machine guns
Category:Machine guns of Manchukuo