A comprehensive look at the QBZ 191 small arms family

By NC ScoutPublished On: November 7, 2021Categories: AP Staff, Weapons5 Comments

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Rob157 November 7, 2021 at 14:57

Well done analysis. Meshes with the Task & Purpose vid on the rifle. Looks like they have gone a long way towards perfecting the AR.
- Johnny Paratrooper November 7, 2021 at 18:28
  
  Agreed. Curiously, it appears as if they have blended together some of the better aspects of various designs over the last 20 years. Barring the adoption of AR style components (Implied), I can see ACR, Beretta 160, and SCAR design elements.
  
  A new weapon that will serve well all over the world well through 2049 AD. China’s stated objective.
Chris November 7, 2021 at 19:51

Interesting. imo

https://news.usni.org/2021/11/07/china-builds-missile-targets-shaped-like-u-s-aircraft-carrier-destroyers-in-remote-desert
- NC Scout November 7, 2021 at 19:52
  
  Yup.
Ghostmann November 8, 2021 at 06:08

The reason they were able to build these was due to the experience gained from general manufacturing over the last 40 years. That’s the one thing that is almost never discussed about outsourcing manufacturing. You can’t buy raw experience en masse. That is something that is built up on by actually doing it. The modern factory environment here is brutal. Every plant I worked in was badly mismanaged, literally riding on the coattails of employees who are now almost 70 years old who know how to use lathes and repair equipment. Most of my generation (older millennial) and even the Gen Xers can’t even figure out chain to sprocket, let alone anything more complex like PLC programming and robotics.

There are quite a few Chinese factories that are highly automated and set up with European advisors (Think German companies) that are using state of the art manufacturing techniques. It isn’t always just a bunch of arms in a dimly lit sweatshop slaving away.

Even some of the best American companies, such as Snap-On, have factories in China that produce damn near first rate tools.

It’s not inconceivable that they would eventually come up with domestic designed weapons that could be viable.

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