People's Liberation Army Ground Force: Encyclopedia II - People's Liberation Army Ground Force - Infantry Equipment

People's Liberation Army Ground Force - Infantry Equipment

People's Liberation Army Ground Force - Pistols

• QSZ-92 - newest pistol, 9mm and 5.8mm versions
• Type 84 - 7.62mm mini pistol for security and police forces
• Type 77 - standard 7.62mm for People's Armed Police and civil police
• Type 67 - 7.62mm silenced pistol for scout and special operations
• Type 64 - 7.62mm, better performance and reliability over Type 54
• Type 54 - 7.62mm, copy of the Soviet TT1930/1933, currently being phased out

People's Liberation Army Ground Force - Sub-machine guns

• Type 85 - updated Type 79, reduced firing noise, also suppressed and 5.8mm versions
• Type 79 - 7.62mm for airborne, scout and special operations
• Type 64 - low flash, suppressed 7.62mm for scout and special operations

People's Liberation Army Ground Force - Rifles

• Type 95 - family of 5.8x42 mm bullpup design assault rifle, carbine and squad machine gun. Factory names are QBZ-95, CAR-95 and QBB-95, respectively.
• Type 87 - 5.8 mm assault rifle and squad machine gun, improved version of Type 81, refused by PLA because of outdated layout, technology used in Type 95
• Type 81 - 7.62 mm assault rifle and squad machine gun, replaced the Chinese Type 56 Assault Rifle and Chinese Type 56 Carbine, both copies of the Soviet AK-47 and Soviet SKS.
• Type 88/QBU-88 - 5.8mm newest sniper rifle
• Type 85 - improved version of Type 79, higher rate of fire but shorter range
• Type 79 - 7.62mm sniper rifle, copy of Soviet Dragunov SVD

People's Liberation Army Ground Force - Machine Gun

• Type 88/QJY-88 - new 5.8mm GPMG, replacing Type 67
• Type 80 - 7.62 mm general purpose machine gun (copy of the Soviet PKM)
• Type 67 - 7.62 mm general purpose machine gun, replacing the Type 53 (SG43) and Type 57 (SGM) 7.62 mm general purpose machine guns

People's Liberation Army Ground Force - Shoulder Launched Weapons

• PF-97 - 80 mm fuel air explosive launcher
• PF-89 - 80 mm Lightweight Anti-tank Weapon, comparable to the United States M136 AT4
• FHJ-84 - twin 62 mm rocket launcher, slowly replacing the Type 69-1 (copy of RPG-7)

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Infantry Equipment", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki