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328:Elswick Ordnance Company
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348:Imperial Japanese Army
322:Design and development
312:Imperial Japanese Navy
263:Rate of fire
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88:1919–1945
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586:Archived
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424:Minekaze
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408:Kamikaze
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253:Traverse
134:Variants
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