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The Type 63 was China’s 1960s attempt to blend the SKS’s accuracy and short-stroke gas system with the AK’s rotating bolt and detachable magazine, resulting in a rifle with SKS-like layout and ...

Key point: It was meant to be a test of the Chinese ability to develop small arms on its own. In the 1980s, China’s small arms were largely inferior to the United States and Russia. The PLA was mostly ...

Revisiting the Soviet design was partly a matter of practicality. By modifying an already-existing design, a large part of the machine tooling that had been calibrated for producing AK-47s could be ...

February 28, 2009: China has apparently sold some of its new assault rifles (the Type 95) to Myanmar. Troops in that country have been seen carrying the Chinese weapon. The QBZ-95 (Type 95) is bullpup ...