PLA Small arms
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When you hold your rifle with weights at the end, you compromise your stance and the position of the rifle in your arms. In addition, for free floating barrels, you are messing with the zero of the barrel. It’s an unscientific and outdated practice. I personally hope the weights are just sponges just to satisfy a PR team with a 90’s mentality.
Vietnamese military have picked up this bad habit too. I don’t know if they did so after watching too much CCTV7 or maybe the practice was practical back during the Sino-Vietnamese War days.
Supposedly the Brazilians do it as well. It must be a low-budget and shoot-100-rounds-a-year exercise given how the PLA supposedly doesn’t train their infantryman to shoot that much.
I thought this practice was to train soldiers to be able to hold their aim for longer periods of time without their arms getting tired. Just aiming with an AR for a while can get tiring, so I believe this is to help train the arm stamina rather than aiming accuracy.
It will create bad habits in regards to shooting. What’s the point of having good stamina if you developed a habit of shooting with bad form? If you really want to train guys their stamina, shoot or dry fire certain exercises for five to ten minutes straight in full gear.
It's kinda wild to me. Every other branch has implemented younger people's thoughts into the training design and uses new techniques. Even within the PLAGF, this practice is being used, such as with the artillery teams, and it has brought greater results in all aspects. But the general infantry sector seems to have stuck with the old farts who cannot adopt to modern warfare.
That is probably just because the average infrantry is just seen as the lowest priority and hence have the least funding and least qualified personnel
The ironic part is that infantry is still a crucial component of the ground forces as evidenced by Ukraine’s struggle against Russia. As a matter of fact, the future infantry will deal with much more complex tasks and problems, yet the PLA infantry still trains their infantrymen as if they are disposable conscripts.
Out of all the lessons of the Ukraine-Russia war, I don't think the importance of basic infantry is one of them.