"Chinese Sniper Rifles Have a Troubled History" Topic
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| Tango01 | 04 Jun 2018 9:37 p.m. PST |
"While the U.S. Army is concerned about next-generation Russian precision rifles and tactics, China has also been making significant advances in the field. In the 1980s, the Chinese used practically the same equipment as the Soviet Union. Nowadays, they use fairly different sets of equipment, including some rifles chambered in NATO calibers. The diverging development of Chinese precision rifles from the same base is an interesting parable of small-arms development driven by doctrine. The Soviet Union used the SVD, a gas-operated short stroke 7.62x54R rifle that fed from a 10-round-box magazine and had an effective range of around 800 meters. China made its own clone of the SVD after capturing a sample during the Sino-Vietnamese war called the Type 79, later refined into the Type 85. These were produced alongside copies of the Soviet PSO-1 4x optical sight…."
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| Cacique Caribe | 04 Jun 2018 9:53 p.m. PST |
Why? Do they come from a broken home? Abusive parents? Bad genes? :) Dan |
 Dentatus   | 05 Jun 2018 5:15 a.m. PST |
Hunh… Given that their weapons are largely cloned, what's the hold up? Other folks have already done most of the heavy lifting. |
| Tango01 | 05 Jun 2018 12:03 p.m. PST |
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