Type Submachine gun Designed 1965 | Place of origin Japan | |
In service Japan Self-Defense Forces
(Testing and Trials Only) Used by Japan Self-Defense Forces Designer Shin-Chuō Industries (Now Minebea) | ||
The New Nambu M65/M66 is a submachine gun of post-World War II Japanese origin manufactured by Shin-Chuō Industries (Formerly Nambu Arms Manufacturing Company; now Minebea). It is a blowback, open-bolt configured weapon chambered in the 9×19mm Parabellum round fed from a thirty-round magazine. The firearm was only tested and produced under trials for the considered replacement of the aging M3 submachine gun that was supplied by the United States Military during the formation of the National Police Reserve after the war.
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