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Description
Specifications
Type: Semi-Automatic Rifle
Country of Origin: Empire of Japan
Introduction: 1949
Action: Gas operated short stroke piston, tilting bolt
Cartridge: 7.7x41mm Nambu
Feed System: Clip fed, staggered column, 10 round box magazine.
Rate of Fire: 25 rounds per minute (practical)
Effective Range: 600 meters

Following the end of the Second Great War, the major military powers of the world (namely Germany, Japan, and the United States) would realize that the bolt-action infantry rifles of old were obsolete and self-loading and select-fire infantry rifles were the way of the future. In which the three nations all took on different paths to develop and introduce the replacements for the now obsolete bolt-action rifles. For Japan, they had decided on developing a new small arms doctrine which both the semi-automatic rifles and "submachine-guns" of the future were all to use the same cartridge. For the self-loading rifle, the Japanese would adopt Kokura Arsenal's design, which would be christened the Type 9 in the newly developed 7.7x41mm Nambu cartridge. The rifle's gas system was modeled after one from the Russian Tokarev SVT-40 self-loading rifle and it's nose cap, stock, and sling attachments was modeled after that of the earlier Type 99 Arisaka rifle. The rifle would prove to be popular with Japanese troops owing to it's rather light recoil and it accuracy. The production figures for the rifle a total of 2,790,000 rifles being manufactured and they would be produced from 1949 to 1958 at the Kokura, Nagoya, Mukden, and Jinsen Arsenals as well as parts being manufactured by a plethora of subcontractors. However by the mid-1950s, the new Type 14 Assault Carbine would prove to a superior in the service role over the Type 9, and from the late 1950s, the type would be withdrawn to non-combat and 2nd roles in the Imperial Army and Navy and would serve as the primary rifle for the newly formed Imperial Japanese Air Force* (For it's ground security troops and Anti-Aircraft crews.) In that capacity, the Type 9 rifle would serve well into the late 1980s to early 1990s when they were finally declared obsolete and many being surplused off to civilian markets (mainly in the United States, the Ottoman Empire, and New Zealand, where they became popular rifles.)

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* = The Imperial Japanese Air Force would formed from the Imperial Army Air Force and elements of the Imperial Naval Air Service in 1954.

Description
Specifications
Type: Semi-Automatic Rifle
Country of Origin: Empire of Japan
Introduction: 1949
Action: Gas operated short stroke piston, tilting bolt
Cartridge: 7.7x41mm Nambu
Feed System: Clip fed, staggered column, 10 round box magazine.
Rate of Fire: 25 rounds per minute (practical)
Effective Range: 600 meters

Following the end of the Second Great War, the major military powers of the world (namely Germany, Japan, and the United States) would realize that the bolt-action infantry rifles of old were obsolete and self-loading and select-fire infantry rifles were the way of the future. In which the three nations all took on different paths to develop and introduce the replacements for the now obsolete bolt-action rifles. For Japan, they had decided on developing a new small arms doctrine which both the semi-automatic rifles and "submachine-guns" of the future were all to use the same cartridge. For the self-loading rifle, the Japanese would adopt Kokura Arsenal's design, which would be christened the Type 9 in the newly developed 7.7x41mm Nambu cartridge. The rifle's gas system was modeled after one from the Russian Tokarev SVT-40 self-loading rifle and it's nose cap, stock, and sling attachments was modeled after that of the earlier Type 99 Arisaka rifle. The rifle would prove to be popular with Japanese troops owing to it's rather light recoil and it accuracy. The production figures for the rifle a total of 2,790,000 rifles being manufactured and they would be produced from 1949 to 1958 at the Kokura, Nagoya, Mukden, and Jinsen Arsenals as well as parts being manufactured by a plethora of subcontractors. However by the mid-1950s, the new Type 14 Assault Carbine would prove to a superior in the service role over the Type 9, and from the late 1950s, the type would be withdrawn to non-combat and 2nd roles in the Imperial Army and Navy and would serve as the primary rifle for the newly formed Imperial Japanese Air Force* (For it's ground security troops and Anti-Aircraft crews.) In that capacity, the Type 9 rifle would serve well into the late 1980s to early 1990s when they were finally declared obsolete and many being surplused off to civilian markets (mainly in the United States, the Ottoman Empire, and New Zealand, where they became popular rifles.)

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* = The Imperial Japanese Air Force would formed from the Imperial Army Air Force and elements of the Imperial Naval Air Service in 1954.