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Originally Posted by Sumeragi
Reason: There was no industrial capacity. There were many plans for expansion of heavy weaponry after Nohoman, but simple lack of capacity to carry those out meant there was no improvement.
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The emphasis had always been both air and naval forces. Understandable, considering Japan's geography and they were indeed, at the onset of the war,
the best in the world.
Likewise, Germany's naval capacity was miniscule. Aside from several pocket-battleships and the more infamous Bismarck, Germany had only 1 carrier prototype that was never completed. Again understandable, since like Japan, Germany stuck to what they were good at.
Nonetheless, in the case of Japan... the utter lack of improvement upon their existing small-arms is... in many ways, inexcusable. Their basic infantry rifles were underpowered and outfitted with too friggin' many unnecessary accessories. I mean, whats up with aircraft sight for rifles? Bayonets for machineguns?
Other than those shortcomings, the rifles are more or less serviceable. I shot many variants, the late war ones you can ditch because their craftsmanship is shoddy, but pre-1943 productions tend to be quite sturdy.
- Tak