PLA Small arms

by78 said:

I'd always wondered what those red labels –– often seen on the carrying handles of QBZ-95s –– are for. They turn out to be simple number labels.

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And here's a close-up of the white label. I can't quite make out the printed information.

by78 said:

Possibly the same scope again. Obviously, compared to the tradition NVG (third image), the augmented reality feature makes a world of difference.

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Grenade launchers and 12.7mm sniper rifle from Hunan Ordnance Group.

Aniah said:

I want to bring back the SMG vs carbine debate again because this image is a pretty good example I think. Are these frontline troops or something else because if they are, what good would an SMG do in this case? Lots of open land and high mountains, sounds like a minimum of a carbine is needed.

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I think they believe the support personnel simply won't need carbines. I guess the logic is just giving them something beyond pistols very cheaply.

Philister said:

5.8*21 is ditched , replaced by 9*19(at least for new guns),the whole PDW thing is bullshit TBH

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I agree. It is dead end. Their purpose was giving rear echelon troops something that could penetrate soft or old body armor. That's what Russians had after all.

PDWs only make sense if you need something compact and can penetrate soft body armor. Non-holsterability, high costs and low lethality should be considered acceptable. That is a very specific set of requirements that holds in specific situations that won't be encountered anymore. Otherwise the 9 mm is a better choice.

Brochures from Zhuhai. No translation necessary.

QIUSIYU said:

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Scchwerter_ said:

Apparently they’re field testing (or just using) something that translates roughly to “pain-experiencer”, and those pads may be part of the apparatus, using electricity to let the user feel pain when activated. From my understanding they’re used to provide some degree of pain when one’s deemed injured or killed in an exercise. The goal is to add some additional realism to the experience

edit: in post #3835 there’s a picture of this apparatus in use. You can see a white pad on the soldier’s forearm, quite similar to what we see on the calf of the soldier in post #3840

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The picture was taken from 1:25 of the video. The soldier said half of his body was in pain to test his shooting proficiency and will power.

SilentObserver said:

The picture was taken from 1:25 of the video. The soldier said half of his body was in pain to test his shooting proficiency and will power.

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This seem like a good idea on paper but it can lead to poor habits and develop training "scars" for soldiers.

It may translate to excessive battlefield passiveness. Due to experience from being shocked on training.
In the worse scenario, solider would become timid and not take hazardous actions necessary to take objectives.

a0011 said:

This seem like a good idea on paper but it can lead to poor habits and develop training "scars" for soldiers.

It may translate to excessive battlefield passiveness. Due to experience from being shocked on training.
In the worse scenario, solider would become timid and not take hazardous actions necessary to take objectives.

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It's being tested in small batches. It's still too early to see how this will affect the troops but I believe that's what training is for. If we look into the far future (50+ years) military simulations will continue to become more and more realistic, we will have to start adopting this new technology eventually. I don't think we should let our current conceptions stop that but instead build new training based on these technologies.