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Tokyo Marui

Tokyo Marui
Private
Founded 1965
Headquarters Adachi, Tokyo, Japan
Products Airsoft guns and rail transport modelling
Website www.tokyo-marui.co.jp

Tokyo Marui Co. Ltd (株式会社東京マルイ Kabushiki-gaisha Tōkyō Marui?) is an airsoft gun and toy cars manufacturer located in Adachi, Tokyo, Japan that produced the AEG (Automatic electric gun). The guns are principally sold in Japan, but are also sold worldwide.

The company had its own center for airsoft sport called Tokyo Marui BB Sports Field which was operated during 2009 and 2010. The guns have appeared in numerous movies and it has merchandising arrangements with many games.

Tokyo Marui was the first company to produce airsoft guns powered solely by electric-motor driven air compressors, which they called "Automatic Electric Gun" (AEG) in 1992. This compact air compressing system was implemented in their first battery-powered automatic firing replica, the FAMAS F1. Other airsoft guns were then introduced. The AEG system is still in use, and has been copied numerous times through the years by many other airsoft gun manufacturers.

Tokyo Marui's airsoft replicas were made primarily from ABS plastic bodies, but also used metal parts where needed. Their more recent models, such as the Type 89 rifle and AK-74M have had full metal externals. The internal gearboxes of these guns are primarily powered by rechargeable batteries. A standard, unmodified Tokyo Marui gearbox will fire 0.2 g Airsoft pellets at around 240 to 300 feet per second (73 to 91 m/s) (around 0.8-0.9 J) depending on the model. These gearboxes may be modified for higher performance by the installation of aftermarket parts, but Japanese law limits their power to 0.98 J.

Tokyo Marui makes the following AEGs:

Automatic electric pistols (AEP) run on 7.2V rechargeable batteries. These pistols and compact submachine guns are often more reliable than gas-powered replicas in cold weather. However, due to their lower voltage supplies and miniature gearboxes, they usually generate lower muzzle speeds (about 0.25 - .5J per BB, 25–50 m/s for 0.2g BB) and slightly slower rates of fire than replicas using a full-sized gearbox system.


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