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There are two Japanese "Type 97 machine guns". Why is only one discussed on Wikipedia?[edit]
As someone has helpfully pointed out, the Japanese Army "Type 97 machine gun" "is not to be confused with the Type 97 arming Japanese Navy fighters such as the A6M Zero", but for some reason the page for the Zero links to this page. There is no page for the Navy Type 97. The Japanese Navy and Army didn't use the same aircraft weapons at all; the "Type 97" just means both were adopted the same year. This describes a magazine fed Japanese infantry machine gun, while the Navy fighters used a belt-fed derivative of the Vickers machine gun in a fixed position. I'm also concerned that a number of other pages about Japanese navy aircraft link to this page when listing the flexible machine gun armament. This is an ARMY weapon, and the only Type 97 in Naval use was the fixed guns used in fighters. The Army Type 97 was never used in aircraft; Japanese army aircraft used the "Type 89" machine gun for flexible positions, and Navy aircraft used the "Type 92", which is a copy of the Lewis gun. But they all link to this page, so a lot of people are getting the wrong information from the links in these articles. I think someone should add a section on the Navy Type 97 to the page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by .45Colt (talk • contribs) 15:49, 17 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Done. Stubby, but the bare essentials are in the new article. --Yaush (talk) 04:53, 5 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
