Recently, the People's Liberation Army began a dense new gun loading, from the official public reports, the Chinese Army's 74th Army's "Hero Tank Company", the 75th Army's "Laoshan Holding Hero Company" and another unit, all received a new QBZ-191 assault rifle. It should be noted that these three units are all "recruits receiving new guns", rather than "veterans changing new guns" like some of the previous units, from 95 gun families to 191 gun families.
A unit of the 75th Army took over a new gun
The "Hero Tank Company" is equipped with a new gun
"Old Mountain Sticks to the Hero Company" to load a new gun
Compared with "old guns for new guns", direct "recruits lead new guns" have more benefits.
If it is to let the troops who have already used the 95 gun clan re-equipped with the new 191 gun clan, then the troops who are already familiar with the use, custody and training of the 95 gun clan need to re-target the characteristics of the 191 gun clan and change, familiarize themselves with and train the relevant regulations of the gun family, which has a greater impact.
Most of the recruits have not been in contact with the 95 gun family, and have not yet developed habits for the use of the 95 gun family, directly taking over the 191 rifle, without repeated tossing, which is more conducive to shortening the formation time of combat effectiveness. The troops that originally used the 95 gun clan can still use the 95 gun clan to hold out for a while, and there is no need to rush to change the 191 gun clan.
A closer look at recent reports of the 191 gun family shows that there has been a sudden increase in reports of the 191 gun family. Not only the field troops have been equipping the 191 gun family on a large scale, but even the daily training of some special operations units has begun to use the 191 gun family in large quantities. Therefore, it is basically certain that the 191 gun family has reached the stage of "impulse", and the speed of rearmament is greatly accelerated.
Production line for 95-1 rifles
Produced 95-1 rifles
This leads to another question – has the 95-1 rifle been discontinued?
After the emergence of the 95-1 rifle as an upgraded model of the Type 95 rifle, its rearmament process was similar to that of the current 191 gun family. First it appeared in a small number of elite units and special operations units, then began to be directly loaded by new recruits, and finally began to be intensively reported publicly. When the 95-1 rifle was publicly intensively reported, the original "old 95", that is, the Type 95 assault rifle, was officially discontinued.
Later, the "old 95" was discontinued
The Type 95 rifle was discontinued, and the 95-1 rifle "impulse". In fact, the equipment process is very similar to the current 191 gun family, so the 95-1 rifle has either been officially discontinued or is close to the shutdown. The relevant manufacturers have either transformed or are in the process of transforming to produce a new 191 gun family.
To be honest, is the 95 gun family, especially the Type 95-1 assault rifle, a "good gun"? Personally, I think this needs to be seen according to different users and usage. For example, many people like to complain about the Type 03 assault rifle, but the border troops still use it very happily. There are also many people in the army who like to use the rifle without a stock and have become accustomed to the use of the 95-1 rifle.
Many people believe that the 95 gun family, whether it is the "old 95" or the newer 95-1 rifle, because of the design of the bracketless layout, has a longer barrel than the QBZ-191 assault rifle, and the longer barrel means that it can provide more energy to the projectile, can hit farther, penetrates more, and is more lethal.
But in fact, the impact of assault rifles on the battle situation in modern warfare has become less and less. In most military conflicts, it is heavy weapons such as fighters and artillery that determine the final direction of the war, and assault rifles are more used to clean up the mess or used in special operations.
If you can fry it, you can fry it
Therefore, if we have to make a trade-off between tactical expansion capabilities and lethality, the PLA is clearly biased towards tactical expansion capabilities. Because the US military's AR series gun family has proved that as long as the tactical expansion ability is strong enough, then the follow-up development potential of modern assault rifles is still good.
At present, the construction idea of the Chinese Army, in fact, is very similar to the Chinese Air Force, that is, by strengthening the systematic combat capability, to erase the dependence on a single piece of weapon equipment or individual combat capabilities. For example, when a scout encounters the opponent's sniper suppression, the first time is not to think about how to kill the other party with his rifle, but to call the reconnaissance force and support fire through the battlefield single soldier data terminal, and directly blow up the opponent sniper. Times have changed, don't keep thinking about "sniping".
Therefore, the 191 gun family with stronger tactical expansion ability, replacing the 95 gun family is a matter of time, and the complete suspension of the 95-1 rifle is also a matter of time sooner or later.
So, how much does the 191 Gun Family need to produce? Will it also produce millions of sticks like the 95 Gun Family?
According to the information provided by Duo Xianying, chief designer of the Type 95 assault rifle, in a public interview with the media, the total output of the "old 95", that is, the original QBZ-95 type assault rifle, has reached a scale of 3 million, and if you add the subsequent production of the 95-1 assault rifle, the total output of millions of the entire 95 gun family is still very amazing.
The production of the "Old 95" has reached the scale of 3 million pieces
Many people may wonder, that is, our army does not have millions of people at present, why should it produce millions of 95 series rifles? This is because troops need to be just in case, taking into account not only the need for the usual use of wear and tear replacement, but also the need for large-scale use in wartime.
The overall performance of the 95-1 rifle is much better than that of the Type 95 rifle, and I personally believe that even if the 95-1 rifle is officially discontinued, the 95-1 rifle will not be retired from the army soon, but will continue to be used in some units, and it is even likely to "work together" with the 191 gun family for decades.
The 95 gun family is in the same frame as the Type 03 rifle
However, the Type 95 assault rifle can be gradually retired, and the 191 gun family can occupy the position of the original Type 95 rifle together with the 95-1 rifle, and the 191 gun family will occupy the main position. This means that the 191 gun family has no problem producing millions of guns.
Type 56 submachine gun ready to be scrapped
As for the fate of the "old 95", with reference to our army's handling of the Type 56 submachine gun and the Type 81 rifle, those in better condition should be sealed. The condition is relatively poor, the wear is more obvious, and it may be stored for a period of time, and the scrap treatment is selected and destroyed back to the furnace.
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