China Is Pleased: Japan's Military Rifles Are Seriously Lacking
Japan's military rifles are far from useless, but they do have some major deficiencies.
Source: nationalinterest.org
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Japan's Army Needs a Better Rifle
bad - but it has serious ergonomic problems and lacks several modern innovations (rails, for instance). The standard issue rifle of the average soldier tends to be among the oldest equipment issued by a military. Russian Ground and Airborne Troops use variations of a rifle designed in the 1970s, the U.S. military uses variations of a design from the late 1950s. Japan stands in contrast, using a rifle designed in 1989 (albeit based on an earlier American design from the 1960s). But despite their usage of recent designs, the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) have fallen behind their Western and...
Source: nationalinterest.org