The Type 99 was the basically same design as the Type 96 light machine gun, but the Type 99 had a mono-pod at the stock and a flash-hider at the muzzle which was screwed onto a threaded portion of the barrel.
The Type 99 was the basically same design as the Type 96 light machine gun, but the Type 99 dispensed with the oiler and had better primary extraction. Early models had a mono-pod at the stock and a flash-hider at the muzzle which was screwed onto a threaded portion of the barrel.