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7.7 × 58 mm Arisaka
Регіон
Sweden
Категорія
Ammunition, Missiles and precision weapons
The 7.7 × 58 mm Arisaka is a brass or lacquered steel, rimless, bottlenecked round of conventional pattern, Berdan primed. The usual tracer, AP, incendiary, explosive, blank and dummy variations were manufactured and there was a light ball round with an 11.7 g bullet, generally used in rifles, as well as the same 13 g Ball of the Type 92 round, for use in machine guns. As with the Type 92, the explosive bullet must be treated with caution. This cartridge was developed during the 1930s to provide a rimless
cartridge for infantry use after concerns regarding feeding the rimmed .303 British (7.7 Arisaka) in machine guns and automatic rifles. The 7.7 × 58 mm has similar ballistics to both the .303 British and Type 92 semi-rimmed rounds but is better suited to feeding from rifle and light machine gun magazines. Its use appears to have been largely confined to Manchuria and mainland China , and it was not common in the Pacific theatres of war. After 1945 manufacture continued under Chinese control for several years, and it can be expected to appear in the Far East for some years to come. Compatible platforms include japanese Type 99 rifle, Type 1, 97 and 99 machine guns.