Type 5 (30 mm)

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Description

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Vehicles equipped with this weapon

General info

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Available ammunition

  • Default: HEF · AP-T · HEF-I · HEF-T · APHE
  • Universal: HEF-T · HEF-I · AP-T · APHE · HEF · HEF
  • Ground targets: HEF-T · AP-T · AP-T · AP-T · APHE
  • Tracers: HEF-T
  • Stealth: HEF

Penetration statistics
Ammunition Penetration @ 0° Angle of Attack (mm)
10 m 100 m 500 m 1,000 m 1,500 m 2,000 m
HEF-T 5 5 4 3 3 3
HEF-I 5 5 4 3 3 3
APHE 38 36 28 21 16 12
HEF 5 5 4 3 3 3
Shell details
Ammunition Velocity
(m/s)
Projectile
mass (kg)
Fuse delay
(m)
Fuse sensitivity
(mm)
Explosive mass
(TNT equivalent) (g)
Ricochet
0% 50% 100%
HEF-T 770 0.35 0.2 0.1 35.09 79° 80° 81°
HEF-I 770 0.35 0.2 0.3 27.5 79° 80° 81°
APHE 770 0.38 0 0 14.04 47° 60° 65°
HEF 770 0.35 0.2 0.8 47.19 79° 80° 81°

Comparison with analogues

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Usage in battles

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Pros and cons

Pros:

  • HE shells deal a lot of damage
  • The cannon has good ballistics
  • The Tracer belt is full of HEF-T shells
  • APHE shells deal lot of damage for both Air and Ground targets

Cons:

  • AP-T shells don't generate much shrapnel, needing more time on target for killing ground targets
  • Ground Belt contain 3/5 of AP-T shells in comparison to only 1/5 APHE that deals way more damage
  • Slow Cyclic rate, same as MK103

History

The Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service sought a replacement for their Oerlikon FF based Type 99 autocannons during the war. Like the Army Air Service, the Navy's first plan was simply scale up their 20mm cannon to a 30mm design called the Type 2. However, the design was still magazine-fed which limited its utility so they developed the newer Type 5. Unlike the earlier Oerlikon based Type 2, the Type 5 uses a more powerful 30x122mm cartridge instead of the 30x92RB and uses a combined gas and recoil action instead of the Oerlikon API action. The Type 5 was planned to be the standard armament of the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service and planned for use on the J7W1 interceptor. However, it arrived too late in the war for the planned use and only saw use on a handful of aircraft such as the J2M5 30mm fighter and the P1Y2-S torpedo bomber.

Media

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See also

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External links

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Japan aircraft cannons
20 mm  Ho-1 · Ho-3 · Ho-5 · Type 99 Model 1 · Type 99 Model 2
30 mm  Ho-155 · Type 5
37 mm  Ho-203 · Ho-204 · Type 94
40 mm  Ho-301
57 mm  Ho-401
75 mm  Type 88
  Foreign:
20 mm  M39A3 (USA) · M61A1 (USA) · M197 (USA) · MG FF (Germany) · MG FF/M (Germany) · MG 151 (Germany)
30 mm  GAU-13/A (USA) · M230E-1 (USA)