, also known as the Taishō 14 machine gun, was a Japanese air-cooled heavy machine gun. Design The Type 3 heavy machine gun was based on the design of the Hotchkiss M1914. Although the Hotchkiss used 8mm cartridges, from 1914 Japan produced the Type 3 under license from Hotchkiss using the 6.5x50mm Arisaka ammunition. It used an ammo strip for loading rounds. Its tripod could be used as an anti-aircraft mounting, and special anti-aircraft sights were provided. Users : 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. Gallery See also Type 92 heavy machine gun Type 1 heavy machine gun Notes Bibliography External links Japanese machineguns of WW2 Catalog of Enemy Ordnance Heavy machine guns Machine guns of Japan World War I machine guns World War I Japanese infantry weapons World War II infantry weapons of Japan World War II machine guns Machine guns of Manchukuo Weapons and ammunition introduced in 1914