Type 95 Assault Rifle II

Ryz05 said:

Bayoneting is not practical on the modern battlefield, so armies seem to be moving away from that concept by designing bullpups. Even units specializing in close quarter battles bring pistols instead of fixing bayonets on their rifles. Otherwise, the modern bayonets could well be used as combat knives instead, held in the hand instead of secured on a rifle.

It seems that the Type 03 will not enter service afterall. You never see that weapon on official PLA pictures by the government and on PLA daily, and it's five years since. Earlier pictures might just indicate experimental fieldings. Type 95 is going to be the standard infantry weapon for the next 20 years. This is also well demonstrated by the many pictures glorifying the Chinese soldier carrying the Type 95, so a personality has already developed, much like the AK-47 or M16.

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Ryz05 said:

Bayoneting is not practical on the modern battlefield, so armies seem to be moving away from that concept by designing bullpups.

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Platoon-scale bayonet charge was British Army's first since the Falklands:

Friday 18 March 2005

telegraph.co.uk

'I bayoneted people. It was me or them'
By Michael Smith, Defence Correspondent
(Filed: 18/03/2005)

The daring and bravery shown in Iraq by the men of 1 Bn, the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment were so outstanding that their battlegroup receives no fewer than 37 of the honours awarded today.

They include 33 gallantry awards, among them the Victoria Cross awarded to Pte Johnson Beharry, two Conspicuous Gallantry Crosses, the second highest award for gallantry, 10 Military Crosses and 17 Mentions in Dispatches.

The succession of heroic actions under fire included the first bayonet charge since the Falklands Conflict and the 23-day defence of the former governor's residence in Amarah under siege from a continuous attack.

The gallantry awards have made the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (PWRR) the most decorated in the history of the British Army, with a total of 57 Victoria Crosses and a host of other medals.

Although formed in only 1992, it is the senior English regiment of the line, tracing its history back to 1572, and its forebear regiments have fought in virtually all the major campaigns in which the Army has taken part.

Lt-Col Matt Maer, CO of 1 Bn, the PWRR, described yesterday how his men were forced to fight every day for five months in Iraq, coming under 860 separate attacks, with 109 alone on one day.

On the first day of their deployment they found themselves drawn into a three-hour running battle with insurgents, he said. "We knew it was going to be a very long and very hot summer."

The steadfast defence by Y Company of the former provincial governor's residence in Amarah saw a number of Military Crosses awarded to the battlegroup, which also included Royal Welch Fusiliers.

Major Justin Featherstone, the Y company commander, who, despite repeatedly being told he could withdraw if he saw fit refused to do so, is among the 10 members of the battlegroup awarded the Military Cross.

But it was inevitably the bayonet charge, led by Sgt Chris Broome, from Trowbridge, Wilts, who is awarded the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross, that captured the imagination.

The three-hour battle during which it took place began on May 14 last year when a dozen gunmen ambushed nine soldiers from the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in a pair of armoured Land Rovers.

The Argylls were attacked on the road to Amarah, with insurgents repeatedly attacking the vehicles with small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades.

The Land Rovers sped through the ambushes only to come upon two dozen insurgents putting together an improvised roadside bomb.

Two platoons of the PWRR, a total of 40 men in four Warrior armoured vehicles, were sent from nearby Camp Condor to hunt down the bombers.

When they saw the insurgents waiting in ambush in foxholes alongside the road, the four infantry sections in the Warriors, 28 men in all, dismounted, carried out a flanking manoeuvre and charged the insurgents with fixed bayonets.

Cpl Mark Byles, 34, from Portsmouth, who is awarded the Military Cross, said: "The look on their faces was utter shock. They were under the impression we were going to lie in our ditch, shoot from a distance and they would run away.

"I slashed people, rifle-butted them. I was punching and kicking. It was either me or them. It didn't seem real. Anybody can pull a trigger from a distance, but we got up close and personal."

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Ryz05 said:

That's something new. Do you have links to confirm that? Aren't many of the border patrol units and PAP using the Type 81 still? Why are the special forces using Type 03? I've never seen pictures of that. Isn't the Type 95 better for urban warfare and so should be more ideal for SF units? If the Type 03 is in service like you said, then it must be due to cost and time saving measures associated with the manufacture and training of the Type 95, and also to have the same calibre bullet to simplify logistics.

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Pointblank said:

Maybe you should tell these British soldiers that:

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hallo84 said:

Here's news capture.


SF use type-03 to replace type-81.
Very logical considering they want something they are familiar with.

PLA SF don't concentrate on urban warfare. That's PAP job.
SF exercises usually only involve force recce and target acquisition.

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hallo84 said:

Here's news capture.


SF use type-03 to replace type-81.
Very logical considering they want something they are familiar with.

PLA SF don't concentrate on urban warfare. That's PAP job.
SF exercises usually only involve force recce and target acquisition.

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