Manufactured by the Nagoya Arsenal, the Type 2 was a specialized takedown variant of the Type 99 Arisaka for issue to paratroopers. As Japanese parachute technology made jumping with a full-sized rifle impractical, the Type 2 would be carried disassembled and then snapped together on landing. Fitted with an inverted "V" front sight and folding ladder rear sight, standard receiver markings, heavily ground mum, and a smooth pistol grip stock with a brown leather sling and a cupped steel buttplate sheet metal dust cover included, numbered to another rifle.