ORIGINAL: Sniper151
Quality, innovation, reliabilityand accuracy go to the Germans.Mass production goes to the USA. Japs receive the award for the worst firearms, but an "A" for their aircraft design in the early years of WW II.
I wil agree that the Japs had some pretty bizarre firearms, but there was absolutely NOTHING WRONG with the 6.5mm Arisaka. Their artillery and naval guns were also equal to anyone else's. As a matter of fact, that Arisaka's design elements made it the STRONGEST bolt-action rifle ever produced, at least up through the time when the quality control was removed from the manufacture of everything Japanese.....