I just figured I would post some pictures of the neat cannon and its ammo for veiwing pleasure, for all those who dont know what it is, it it a 40mm Cannon, that shot caseless ammunition (like a small fast rocket sort of thing) it was used on variants of the Ki-44 and Ki-45 IJAAF fighters
First pic, the weapon itself, note on the first half of the barrel the large recoil spring, and in the middle of the gun body, where the bullet is shown, there would be a 10 round magazine there in a instaled aplication
now, here is a picture of it installed in the wing, notice that the recoil spring and all other mechanisms are covered by the wing, leaving only a small part of the barrel exposed
here is a diagram of the shell itself, now, at the bottom of the shell the diagram does not say that there are 12 holes in the bottom for the propelent to propell it out of the barrel, which I will post a picture of below
here is another cutaway of the shell, this time a real picture, and now you can see the holes in the bottom of it like I was saying above
I hope you guys found this write up interesting, and also I am glad if anyone learnt anything new from it, if anyone has any questions about this I will answer them as best I can
