They both use the 7.65x20 French Long, but the Pedersen device has a longer barrel, so it has a higher velocity.
Pedersen device has about 400J muzzle energy and about 400m/s muzzle velocity. MAS-38 has 350m/s muzzle velocity
The muzzle energy of 7.65x20 French Long is between the Nambu bullet (274J) and the 9mm Parabellum bullet (494J).
6.2 damage to 7.65x20 French Long is ridiculous, you people even gave the Nambu bullet 6.7 and 7.2 damage.
Damage of Pedersen device should at least buff to 6.9 ,MAS-38 to 6.7 and BR2.
Dark Force needlessly neuters some of these guns so any advantage they might have is quickly nullified. They don’t shoot fast enough to warrant such a weak hitting power IMOP.
Damage is not based on the energy of the projectile.
Im lazy to write it down again, the important info is there.
6.2 damage is realistic for 7.65, so I would instead move the Mas-38 to BR2 and adjust the recoil to fit the the weak cartridge.
Infacty increasing the damage from 6.2 to something like 6.4 or 6.5 will have zero effect on how many times you need to hit someone to down him.
Nambu is 8x22 so it should do slightly less damage than 9x19 which is the case with Tokyo Arsenal, Type 2 and Type 2a SMGs.
Type 100 has more damage probably due to balance reasons the same way Mp35/I has magically more damage than other 9x19.
Update: I just noticed that Japanese Mp28 (7.65mm) has 6.5 damage, so we do have inconsistency.
Double standards
Also, the statistical report you presented is about modern gun crimes. The victims can get better treatment and it is related to the medical level in different eras and regions. The mortality rate in the statistics does not reflect these factors.
In any case, the battlefield environment of World War II is very different from the background of this study. This report has limitations. The mortality rate cannot truly reflect the lethality of weapons.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but this is the most accurate data we can collect though there are problems with the chart such as not mentioning how many bullets hit the victim or where they were hit.
I have seen better charts but this is the best I could find now. Its reasonable accurate though based on what I saw before.
Statisticians did not pay attention to distinguishing between different propellants of ammunition of the same caliber, nor did they mention the difference in kinetic energy, and the sample size was not sufficient. In my opinion, the logic that the larger the caliber, the higher the damage is not valid. The caliber of the 7.92mm Mauser bullet is much smaller than that of the. 45 caliber bullet, but this does not mean that its damage is lower.
I am tired of debating the standards of weapon damage. Regardless, they need to be buffed, just like all types of Japanese weapons bullets can be buffed.
