Volatile pistols. Anaemic cartridges. Weapons so poorly designed they were as dangerous to the user as the enemy.
Jonathan Ferguson — Keeper of Firearms at the Royal Armouries — takes a deep dive into some of Japan’s most flawed and bizarre weapons from World War II.
From a pistol that could discharge just by pressing its side, to an underpowered submachine gun that struggled to do its job, these weapons tell a story of desperate wartime engineering and fatal design compromises.
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