There is no 100 round belt. As explained in the OP, the drum only contains the loaded belt (think of things like the MG 42’s 50 round drum, the Stinger’s box magazine, RD-44’s drum etc), and the weapon would have a loose belt like the MG 42 100, Conders MG, and MG 81.
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There is no 100 round drum. The 100 round version would fire from loose belts.
There’s belief, there’s disbelief, and then there’s @_DELAVR 's research on the matter. I’m sure there was some doctrinal significance to the consideration of the modular feed strips, to potentially use the weapon in a traditional machine gun role, but the hinges connecting them are, well, hinges. I’m sure they can dangle linearly, straight up and down.
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Oh! So that’s what it means. You’re saying that since the drum magazine isn’t spring-driven but belt-driven, it could totally rely purely on the belt’s own rotation. In other words, a straight 100-round continuous belt feed. So it’s entirely feasible for us to develop our own design based on this principle. I’m totally on board with this—maybe we’ll end up seeing a belt-fed submachine gun someday.
I think the Czechoslovak Praga I-23 machine gun has a similar feed system:
Unfortunately, the photo of the left side is of very poor quality, but there should be a belt exit port there. Also, note the ambidextrous charging handle:
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Where did you find this information? This is the first time I’ve heard such nonsense.
No, the Tokyo Arsenal 1927 submachine gun, like the Soviet Tokarev submachine gun (PPT-27), never existed in a 100-round belt-fed version. I don’t have any information about where you found this, and I’ve never heard of anything like it.
It’s fed via 10 round curved metal strips that are interlinked at a hinge point at the end of the strips. The circular magazine mearly holds 5 of these 10 round strips inside itself. You could in theory then interlink 10 strips in one large flexible loop and thereby have 100 rounds.
Okay, where is the proof of the existence of the 100-round tape? Where is the documentation? If not, then it’s just nonsense. I don’t want to see it in the game.
You can interlink the 10 round strips via a hinge. You can make it any length.
Quoting from Introduction to Rifles, Pistols, and Machine Guns
A thorough study of Japanese small arms. by Jiro Sayama
The automatic pistol was a prototype developed as a preliminary study for the automatic rifle. It was extremely convenient to carry and operate, and was intended to serve as a reserve fire source directly under commanders of all levels, as a weapon for light machine gun squads during assaults, and also for use on vehicles, boats, assault units, scouts, and trains, particularly for railway garrisons and for guarding overseas diplomatic missions.
So one can reason, considering the fact it was being developed as a weapon intended for machine gun squads, the choice of 10 round feed strips that could be linked via hinges could reasonably be linked up to 100 rounds.
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This looks really cool! We need a 100-round version at BR 5, and the current 50-round version should return at BR 4.
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So, in the end, where is the belt, 100 or 50 rounds? Provide evidence that it was there.
Or can you only show the drum magazine?
Respectfully read what is being presented. Inside the magazine is a belt of 50 rounds. Five, 10 round strips, connected via a hinge. The magazine is merely a means to contain the belt. The 50 rounds belt is inside the magazine. A 100 round belt would just be ten of those 10 round strips linked together.
The bottom below the SMG is a cartridge, then to the right of it one of the 10 round strips. The SMG is capable of feeding via those strips connected together. To the right of that strip as an 18 round magazine.
The 50 rounds mag was to house the belt of 5 strips.
Like how a belt of ammunition fed into a light machine gun is limited by the magazine it is being fed from (or loose belt length.) no one has made a specific magazine to hold 347 rounds for an MG34. But you could link together 347 rounds even if you don’t have the magazine to hold it, you would simply be firing from an absurdly long belt.
You’re just applying the logic of the weapon and how it was intended to function in accordance with how it was intended by the doctrine and purpose of its development.
The belt is modular.
The belt is a connection of 10 round feed strips.
The magazine of 50 just holds the belt.
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Also, the rigid strip isn’t actually all that rigid and is quite malleable.
So, if you want, you can straighten out the 10-round strips for the 1927 Tokyo Arsenal submachine gun a bit to keep them from curling.
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That’s a good point. I imagine they might even be more flexible as they don’t require as much rigid tensile strength for load bearing due to cartridge weight, compared to the Type 92 HMG ammo plates; being much shorter likely helps too.
In consideration of that it’d probably work to just have them all connected in one long belt, resting in a pouch on top of each other. Then dangling in a single long line in game instead of my idea of it being a loop.
Either or i think it’d be a really cool premium or event option 
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Hahaha Yes I was imagining it to look like this with the strips linked together! I was thinking of chain pistol designs and especially how the game Hunt Showdown has a revolver with an 18 round chain.
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Issue with the Soviets is they already get 100 round SMGs, weapons that have 97 rounds in the drum. Yes none are TT but they still have it.
STG only got 30 rounds (it is even 20 rounds less than 50) so should we also move that one down?
Or is suddenly 30 rounds more than enough for a gun to be viable in BR 5?
I say buff the damage of both the stg’s and the Hyde 44 to be 11-12 damage instead of the 9.6 then.
It won’t change their time to kill (TTK).
But there you have at least 2 soviet SMGs with 71 rounds in BR4 farming br3 people