PLA Small arms
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MwRYum
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Equation
Lieutenant General
Can these rifles be exported to the Philippines after the US has decided to stop selling rifles to them because of Duterte comments and "pivot" towards Beijing and Moscow?
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President Duterte's right-hand man in the Senate on Tuesday said the administration should start paying attention to international concerns about the human rights situation in the Philippines after the US state department halted the planned sale of assault rifles to the Philippine National Police. "The US is not the only maker of quality rifles. It's time for us to get to know what's available in the world market," Senate President Aquilino Pimentel III told the Inquirer by text message.
SinoSoldier
Colonel
Norinco already exports small arms to the Philippines in the civilian sector. Fully automatic ones, to boot.
Here's that video taken using Window 10's handy screen recording tool, uploaded onto vidme
License or not, there has to be an industrial base of precision machinery. A rifle may not look high tech compared with jet fighter, but the level of industrial expertise is pretty high. Many much bigger and more industrial countries can not make rifles or not good enough to work in mud, rain, heat and cold. No offence meant, I think Philippine is one of the least industrialized countries in Asia.
I have seen video of Chinese designer testing of rifle. They dip it in muddy water (not thick mud) fully, take it out, and shoot. The rifle did not jam. That's a lot of works in the rifle making.
I don't think that's a fatal flaw for the ergonomics of the rifle, and they've used the similarly configured AK family, QBZ81 and QBZ03 for quite a while domestically.
Making it ambidextrous would be nice, as well as making the fire select ambidextrous too, but considering how they are now even without those things, I'd consider the free floating handguard and modular barrels and of course the much greater attachment options to be a big step forward from what they had before and solves many of the bigger issues of the current service rifles.