The Ho-5 (Army Type 2) was a Japanese aircraft
autocannon
An autocannon, automatic cannon or machine cannon is a fully automatic gun that is capable of rapid-firing large-caliber ( or more) armour-piercing, explosive or incendiary shells, as opposed to the smaller-caliber kinetic projectiles (bull ...
used during
World War II. Developed from the
Ho-103 machine gun
The Type 1 machine gun (Type (designation), signifying its year of adoption, 1941) was a Japanese aircraft-mounted heavy machine gun widely used during World War II. It was also known as the Ho-103. The weapon itself was largely based on the Ame ...
, it was a version of the American Model
1921 Browning aircraft machine gun. It replaced the
Ho-1 and
Ho-3 (Army Type 97) in general service. The Ho-5 was belt-fed using typical Browning-style steel disintegrating links. The cartridge used was a shortened version of the Allied
20 x 110mm Hispano-Suiza HS.404.
The Ho-5 was used mostly as wing mounts in late-war
fighters
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Combat and warfare
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* Fighter aircraft, a warplane designed to destroy or damage enemy warplan ...
, but saw limited use as cowl mounted in fighters and as flexible mounted (retrofit) in
bombers.
Specifications
*Caliber:
20mm
20 mm caliber is a specific size of popular autocannon ammunition. It is typically used to distinguish smaller-caliber weapons, commonly called "guns", from larger-caliber "cannons" (e.g. machine gun vs. autocannon). All 20 mm cartridges ha ...
(0.8 in)
*Ammunition: 20 x 94 (84.5 g)
*Weight: 37 kg (77 lb)
*Rate of fire: 750 rounds/min
*
Muzzle velocity
Muzzle velocity is the speed of a projectile (bullet, pellet, slug, ball/shots or shell) with respect to the muzzle at the moment it leaves the end of a gun's barrel (i.e. the muzzle). Firearm muzzle velocities range from approximately to i ...
: 750 m/s (2,460 ft/s)
*Magazine: 150-round belt
See also
*
List of firearms
*
List of weapons of military aircraft of Germany during World War II
*
List of common World War II infantry weapons
*
M2 Browning machine gun
The M2 machine gun or Browning .50 caliber machine gun (informally, "Ma Deuce") is a heavy machine gun that was designed towards the end of World War I by John Browning. Its design is similar to Browning's earlier M1919 Browning machine gun, w ...
References
* Gunston, Bill "''The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft of World War II''" Salamander Books, Ltd. 1978 {{ISBN, 0-89673-000-X
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