19.02.2019
The Type 81: Meet China's Very Own AK-47 Rifle

China's 1980s stopgap rifle may continue to see service far into the twenty-first century. In the 1980s, China's small arms were largely inferior to the United States and Russia.The PLA was mostly armed with the Type 56 assault rifle, a clone of the original AK-47, and the Type 56 carbine, ...