If qbz95 is designed around the gun barrel. Then the qbz191 is designed around the picatinny rail and what can be attached to it.
PLA soldiers are not cannon fodders but distributed sensor nodes. The gun is not just a weapon and it is really questionable how much casualty can be inflicted by rifles in the wars that the PLA is gonna envision fighting in. The gun is likely a communication/designation stick in the future. As long as a single PLA soldier is alive and holding a point, he is a sensory node that can call on indirect fire much more than what he can personally deliver. Where as before we see PLA trying to cram as much firepower at the squad level, in the future there would be some units where the squad size might even be reduced, and reliance on personally bringing heavy firepower to the fight might be de-emphasized a bit.
I think the Russian/Ukraine war gave people a feel that wars are still about getting people into trenches and filling the lines. I don't think the PLA is gonna fight that way even if they are taking notes, and it would be not wise for other countries to assume that a conflict with the PLA is gonna evolve in that direction.
PLA soldiers are not cannon fodders but distributed sensor nodes. The gun is not just a weapon and it is really questionable how much casualty can be inflicted by rifles in the wars that the PLA is gonna envision fighting in. The gun is likely a communication/designation stick in the future. As long as a single PLA soldier is alive and holding a point, he is a sensory node that can call on indirect fire much more than what he can personally deliver. Where as before we see PLA trying to cram as much firepower at the squad level, in the future there would be some units where the squad size might even be reduced, and reliance on personally bringing heavy firepower to the fight might be de-emphasized a bit.
I think the Russian/Ukraine war gave people a feel that wars are still about getting people into trenches and filling the lines. I don't think the PLA is gonna fight that way even if they are taking notes, and it would be not wise for other countries to assume that a conflict with the PLA is gonna evolve in that direction.