Type 3 heavy machine gun

, also known as the Taishō 14 machine gun, was a Japanese air-cooled heavy machine gun. The Type 3 heavy machine gun was in a long-line of Japanese Hotchkiss machine gun variants that the Imperial Japanese Army would utilize from 1901 to 1945. Starting in 1901, Japan began importing Hotchkiss MLE 1897 heavy machine guns that were compatible with belt fed 6.5mm Arisaka cartridges. Japan eventually bought a license for its production, with the type seeing notable service during the Russo-Japanese War Japanese gun designer Kijirō Nambu, would later on modify the Hotchkiss MLE 1897 heavy machine gun to better meet Japanese requirements following lessons learned after the conclusion of the Russo-Japanese War. This would result in the adoption of the Type 38 heavy machine gun in 1907, first seeing action in Qingdao during WWI. The Type 38 heavy machine gun was still used at the time of the 1937 Marco Polo Bridge Incident. In 1909, Kijirō Nambu would further modify the Type 38 heavy machine gun, focusing on improving dissipation and durability. This type would enter service in 1914 as the Type 3 heavy machine gun, first seeing action in the 1919 Japanese intervention in Siberia and later in Manchuria and the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Type 3 tripod could be used as an anti-aircraft mounting, and special anti-aircraft sights were provided. Chile bought several hundred Type 3 machine guns in 7×57mm Mauser as Modelo 1920. Barrels were manufactured in France by Hotchkiss but most of the weapon was made at the Kokura arsenal. Purchased for Chang Tso-lin's Fengtian Army. Later used by the Collaborationist Chinese Army It was used by the Korean People's Army during the Korean War. Japanese Type 92 Heavy Machine Gun (9885155276).jpg|A Type 3 and Type 92 next to each other at [[Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution|a Beijing museum]], showing the similarity Chilean Type 3 (M1920) machine gun.jpg|A 7-mm export gun in a Chilean museum Chilean contract Type 3 (M1920) machine gun.jpg|Ditto Military exercise of Manchukuo Imperial Army.