PLA Small arms

PiSigma said:

That sight is way too high above the barrel. It is An additional 2-3" above iron sights which is already fairly high up.

Click to expand...

Then it'll require that major mod kit to replace the upper with a flushed top rail and side-mounted charging handle. You may see the PAP and police SWAT outfits have them but certainly not the PLA.

For the QBU88s in the image below, the bipods are no longer attached to the barrels; they have instead been attached to the handguard, where they should have been in the first place.

MwRYum said:

Then it'll require that major mod kit to replace the upper with a flushed top rail and side-mounted charging handle. You may see the PAP and police SWAT outfits have them but certainly not the PLA.

Click to expand...

Actually they can probably screw some pic rails onto the hand guard between the carrying handle and front sight post and they will be able to mount red dots and holographics in a co-witness or lower 1/3 position.

It’s not uncommon for shooters to mount 1x optics with unlimited eye relief pretty far forward of the rifle.

You trade off a little accuracy for better situational awareness, which I think would actually work quite well wit the Type 95.

MwRYum said:

Then it'll require that major mod kit to replace the upper with a flushed top rail and side-mounted charging handle. You may see the PAP and police SWAT outfits have them but certainly not the PLA.

Click to expand...

Either that or like what @plawolf said: add a canted sight to the handguard. However, aside from the situational awareness issue, other issues with the canted sight include the added bulkiness of the rifle and the odd way you have to hold it which would limit your motion.

A CS/LS06 in service with the PAP.

Infantry bunker/foxhole buster. Rocket diameter unknown.

by78 said:

For the QBU88s in the image below, the bipods are no longer attached to the barrels; they have instead been attached to the handguard, where they should have been in the first place.

Click to expand...

If that's a modification rolled out in general issue, that may mean the QBU88 now have free-floating barrel; if paired with proper precision ammo, the whole "Type 88 shotgun" meme may finally become a thing of the past.

Of course, the scope's MOA is another issue to tackle, though the effort to render may better off go to replace the whole thing with more QBU-191 instead.

MwRYum said:

If that's a modification rolled out in general issue, that may mean the QBU88 now have free-floating barrel; if paired with proper precision ammo, the whole "Type 88 shotgun" meme may finally become a thing of the past.

Of course, the scope's MOA is another issue to tackle, though the effort to render may better off go to replace the whole thing with more QBU-191 instead.

Click to expand...

The new bipod seems to be 'general issue', most likely as a remedial measure to further improve the QBU88, as the image below indicates it's also been introduced to the PAP. How widespread this will become is anyone's guess. I'm not sure if the new bipod implies a free-floating barrel though. As for accuracy, I have been seeing QBU88s with upgraded scopes for sometime now, starting with the PAP. Again, I refer you to the image below.

Who knows, what model of scope he used?

by78 said:

Which sniper/anti-materiel rifle is this? Is that a carrying handle on the underside (between the magazine and the bipod)?

Click to expand...

NORINCO NSG-50 sniper/anti-materiel rifle. Looks similar to the rifle in the quoted post above.