Engineering:Type 87 assault rifle
The Type 87 (Chinese: 87式自动步枪) is a Chinese-designed selective-fire, gas-operated assault rifle.
History
The Chinese People's Liberation Army attempted to replace the Type 56 assault rifle and the Type 56 carbine, which led to a failed adoption of the Type 63[1][2].
Consecutively[3], the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War acclerated the PLA's need for a modernised service rifle, which led to the birth of the Type 81.
Thus, the Type 81 was redesigned into the Type 87, as a development platform for the next generation of PLA small arms which was finalized in 1987[4][5].
Design
The Type 87 is similar to the Type 81 except that it has a plastic furniture and an L-shaped folding stock[6].
The Type 87 served as a test-bed for the then new 5.8×42mm DBP87 ammunition, which was later used by QBZ-95, QBZ-03 and QBZ-191 as the standard issue rifle ammunition.
The Type 87 could be equipped with DQJ03、DQP-1 and DQD-1 rifle grenades, while being issued with the Type 87 bayonet, the first knife bayonet in PLA service.
Variants
Type 87A
Prototype assault rifle designed from late 1987 to 1989 as a facelift for the Type 87 in anticipation of the 1989 National Day parade, known as the "Project 8910"[7][8].
The rifle features a two-piece polymer handguard with improved ventilation, polymer magazines, and polymer pistol grip.
Limited production began in spring of 1989. It never went into full-scale production but has been in service with PLA special forces.
Type 87 LMG
Prototype light machine gun based on the Type 87 design, also known as the QJB87[8].
QBZ-03
Redesigned and modernised Type 87 rifle.
Adoption
While the Type 87 never went into full-scale production and was soon replaced, it remains in PLA service in limited numbers.
Users
China
References
- ↑ "Chinese Type 81 Rifle". http://gunsandammomag.com/long_guns/chinese81_040207/.
- ↑ The Chinese Type 81: More than just another AK clone. Timothy Yan. April 2007.Guns & Ammo.
- ↑ Beckhusen, Robert (14 March 2021). "Where Russia's SKS Rifle Bested America's Famous M1 Garand". The National Interest (Washington DC). https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/where-russia%E2%80%99s-sks-rifle-bested-america%E2%80%99s-famous-m1-garand-180017.
- ↑ The SKS Is the Cockroach of Weapons-You just can’t kill Sergei Simonov’s old, reliable, semi-automatic carbine (Archive)
- ↑ "87式突击步枪 ——〖枪炮世界〗". Archived from the original. Error: If you specify
|archiveurl=, you must also specify|archivedate=. https://web.archive.org/web/20230421151807/http://pewpewpew.work/china/rifle/1987/87.htm. - ↑ "Gun Review: The Chinese Type 81". 2 March 2015. Archived from the original. Error: If you specify
|archiveurl=, you must also specify|archivedate=. https://web.archive.org/web/20230314034720/https://www.tactical-life.com/firearms/chinese-type-81/. - ↑ Miller, David (2003). The illustrated directory of twentieth century guns. Zenith Imprint. pp. 278–279. ISBN 978-0-7603-1560-6.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "87A式突击步枪 ——〖枪炮世界〗". http://pewpewpew.work/china/rifle/1987/87a.htm.
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