Are those suppresors? PLA is finally using suppresors?
The Chinese have been using suppressors for a long time.
It’s just treated as a specialist tool rather than almost general issued like western special forces seem to these days.
Modern suppressors are just baffles, the difficult part is working out the baffle design, not in terms of manufacturing, it’s something that could easily be copied and massed produced from commercial available examples.
I think a main reason PLA soldiers are rarely photographed with suppressors (other than on LS2s as pictured here) is because unless you are using special subsonic rounds, even the best suppressors don’t do that much in terms of sound mitigation. Hollywood quiet is only possible on something like a 22LR, and even then only with subsonic ammo.
With suppressed subsonic rounds, you are really trading off a lot of long range capabilities and stopping power for sound mitigation. That might be fine for Seals who focus on door kicking and room clearance ops against unarmoured insurgents, but I don’t think the PLA feels that is a worthwhile trade off other than maybe one point man per squad with a LS2.
This is a classic case in point of the difference in equipment and tactical preference between militaries focused on conventional warfare compared to those who are more focused on counter insurgency.
