OT Japanese MG

[Mark in Rochester]

Japanese HO-103 variant of the M2 HMG in an 8-gun linked AA mount converted for anti-infantry use by American forces in the Pacific after it's capture.

One of the design engineers I worked with in the late 70s said he had worked on a pneumatic automatic rifle system that would fire one-inch dia. lead balls fed from a hopper when they tried it out it mowed down the forest.