I was very surprised when I saw a picture of the Indian Army exercise on the Internet. Two fighters, one light machine gun, two guns.
One was the first light submachine gun "Buren" used by the Indian Army.
The predecessor of the "Bren" was the Czech ZB-26 light assault rifle, which was copied by the British before the Second World War and supplied to the British in 1935. After the Second World War, the British improved the "Bren", using the nato762 mm of 7The 62 mm bullet replaced the previous 77 mm caliber bullets, that is, light machine guns of the L4 type.
The other is a familiar submachine gun.
Take a closer look, isn't this our Huaxia 56-1 assault rifle?
This baffles me because we don't have much friendship with India, which had a major war, and in recent years there have been frequent clashes on the border between the two countries. Where did India get the 56-1 assault rifle? Is this an AK rifle made in the USSR or Eastern Europe?
Indian guns seized by the People's Liberation Army in the Galwan Valley in 2020.
India originally used the British rifle, but it had been using it until its self-developed INSAS rifle. However, during the 1999 battle of Kargil with Pakistan, the INSAS rifle did not perform well (the details will not be repeated, everyone knows it).
As a result, India had to buy 100,000 AKMs from Romania in 2000 to arm its own army.
Our 56-1 and 56-1 are imitations of the Soviet AK47, using the method of milling processing, this kind of shell is strong, but the weight is large, the process is cumbersome, the cost is expensive, and the consumption is huge.
The Type 56 assault rifle also has a "sibling" in Europe, the Albanian-made ASH-78 assault rifle. Zhao Ruizhi, an expert in China, from 1964 to 1967, assisted Albania in establishing a military industry, served as the head of the leading group at that time, had a deal with AKM, and after returning to China, he began to transform the shell of the Type 56 assault rifle into a forging and riveting method, and it did not take long to develop a set of Type 56 assault rifles. Since then, the entire line of Type 56 rifles has been gradually replaced with riveted casings.
Eastern European countries also imitated the AK47, but when the Soviet Union introduced a more advanced and cheaper AKM, all of them switched to AKMs.
In order to distinguish the Type 56 assault rifle made in China from the AK-type rifle made in foreign countries, there is one thing that is very significant, that is, our stamping casing uses RPK light *** instead of AKM.
Another point is remarkable: the AK rifle is a half-pack with wings on the sides, while the Type 56 rifle is a full set of sights with a ring with a hole in the ring.
In this small aspect, the Indians are not using AKM.
Someone may want to say: you just said Albania, so is the Indian ** the Albanian-made Type 56 ASH-78 automatic pistol? This gun looks like a Type 56 assault rifle.
Albanian ASH-78 automatic pistol, similar to the Type 56 assault rifle.
That's right, the ASH-78 rifle developed by the Albanians, from design to manufacturing, to production line, is all from our hands, and the ASH78 and 56 assault rifles look like twin brothers.
However, since Albania made it on its own in 1978, there are two subtle differences between the ASH-78 and the Type 56:
1.The morphology of pre-mimic clusters is variable. The Type 56 front sight array is a stepped groove, while the ASH-78 front sight array is a "runway" type groove.
2.The ASH-78 automatic rifle does not see the characteristics of the 56 and ordinary AK on the casing.
Therefore, in addition to the Albanian ASH-78, there is only the Type 56-1 (for details, see my column "The twin brother of the Type 56 submachine gun in Europe - the Albanian ASH-78 automatic rifle").
How did the Type 56-1 assault rifle fall into the hands of the Indian military? Could it be that we lost it in the 1962 Sino-Indian War and then found it by the Indian Army?
Indian armaments collected by our troops in 1962.
The answer is no, 56-1 was copied in 1963, just after the Sino-Indian War.
I think the Indian military has captured the Type 56-1 assault rifle in several battles with Pakistan.
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