Wait, on the soldier's plate carrier's upper right, isn't that the medal from last year's parade?
QBZ-191 service rifle family
- Thread starter Blitzo
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The tibetan pla has the new rifle now. Seems to be the dmr version.
Qbz 191 has been distributed more and more, yet we still havent seen the normal length version.
This one has the new magazine, interesting.
There is also modification made to the charging handle, I think it is made wider than the ones we have seen previously.
An interesting question to ask is, is this new chagrining handle special to the DMR version of the gun, or have they updated the overall design?
One interesting fact: the 208th Institute originally designed rails on all 4 sides of the handguard (probably similar to HK-416), but the PLA rejected this idea, hence the current design.
MwRYum
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In other words, PLA not ready for the whole "Christmas tree" deal...
Other military forces are moving away from quad rails too. Unnecessarily heavy, difficult on the hands (I too love holding cheesegraters for hours and hours), and more expensive to machine as well.
Their solution for the QBU-191 is a 12 o'clock rail with m-lok in other aspects, which is lighter, easier on the hands, and easier to machine than quad rail equivalent.
For standard QBZ-191, having a 12 o'clock rail and four smaller rail attachment points (i.e.: not permanent) on the handguard is more than sufficient as the standard infantry configuration imo.
If they want a more "SOF" version of QBZ-191, they can just adopt a shorter version of QBU-191's handguard.
Quad rails this day and age imo is just silly and costly, and if the PLA has any sense they will never adopt a quad rail handguard for QBZ-191...
