As the Russian-Ukrainian conflict is consumed more and more, Western countries have also begun to aid Ukrainian military with various weapons in stock, and even weapons seized from other channels. Recently, on the battlefield of the Russian-Ukrainian military conflict, a very interesting sniper rifle appeared. Because judging from the inscription of this sniper rifle, this is a 85 sniper rifle produced in China. So, how did China's Type 85 sniper rifle arrive on the battlefield of Russia and Ukraine?
very interestingly, this Type 85 sniper rifle did not have the Northern Industrial logo like other Chinese exported light weapon , but was marked with the 96 factory logo. In addition to the name of the gun "type-1985", it can basically be confirmed that the export time of this Type 85 sniper rifle was very early. Some foreign netizens believe that this is likely to be imported from Iran from China during Iran-Iraq War and subsequently provided to the Houthi armed organizations for use. The United States either seized the gun directly from the Middle East or directly intercepted Iranian arms ships and obtained the gun, and eventually gave its military aid to Ukraine for use.
also has a different view that the gun is likely to come from Iraqi . After all, during the Iran-Iraq War, China also sold various light weapons to Iraq, including the Type 85 sniper rifle. However, I personally think this is unlikely. Because Iraq has not provided arms everywhere like Iran and Iran in recent years, and it is even an important importer of light weapons, it is unlikely to deliver this Type 85 sniper rifle.
Iran's own imitation of the Type 80 general machine gun and Type 85 sniper rifle
China's Type 85 sniper rifle was once the hope of China's sniper rifle. The gun was improved by the 9 sniper rifle , and the Type 79 sniper rifle was imitated by my country based on the SVD sniper rifle seized from the Vietnamese army. Now this Type 85 sniper rifle has gone around and returned to Europe, and I don’t know if it’s the arrangement of fate. Many people believe that the Type 79 sniper rifle is China's first sniper rifle, but in fact, since the 1960s, my country has also explored sniper rifles.
1967-1969, under the leadership of the State-owned Factory 296 (that is, the export manufacturer of the Type 85 sniper rifle in this article), two special sniper rifles that can be adapted to the 3 sniper rifle and the 6 semi-automatic rifle were developed. The matching handwheel shooting meters were 1,100 meters and 900 meters respectively, which basically met the PLA's needs for medium and long distance precision shooting at that time.
53 special sniper rifle scope
At this time, our understanding of sniper rifle is actually still at the level of World War II . That is, like the Mosinnagan sniper rifle of the Soviet Army in World War II, a special sniper scope was installed for a rifle with a better gun condition, and then used it as a sniper rifle. At that time, our army called these two rifles "Special Rifle for Snipers". Among them, the Type 53 sniper special rifles did not enter the mass production stage, while the Type 56 sniper special rifles produced more than 1,500 and small-scale equipment was carried out. The reason for this situation in
56 type special sniper rifle scope
was mainly because our army had not yet formed the relevant concept of sniper operations at that time. In combat, precise fire support for medium and long distances mainly relies on "precision shooters". This did not begin to change significantly until the outbreak of 's self-defense counterattack against Vietnam. However, the above technical reserves are not of no use at all. For example, in the early version of the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle exported by China to the United States, models with special scopes appeared, which can be regarded as a corresponding contribution to the development of China's light weapons on the other hand.
Topic Return to the Type 85 sniper rifle that appeared in the Russian-Ukrainian military conflict. Whether it is the Russian army or the Ukrainian army, if the ordinary 7.62x54mm rifle bullet is not used when using this Type 85 sniper rifle, but instead uses the 7N1 sniper bullet specially used for SVD sniper rifle, then there will be inaccurate shooting.The reason is that in order to adapt to the Type 53 pacing machine bullet, the barrel rifle wrapping distance of the Type 85 sniper rifle is set to 240mm, while the original SVD sniper rifle barrel rifle is 315mm. The problems of
SVD sniper rifle and 7N1 dedicated sniper bullet
have led to the overall accuracy of China's Type 85 sniper rifle not being very good. Therefore, China's Type 85 sniper rifle was able to sell well in the international market in the early days, mainly because of its cheap price. However, this situation no longer exists. In terms of
gun bullets, in addition to developing a special sniper rifle bullet with NATO standard 7.62x51mm specification, China has also developed a CS/BFL7 type 7.62×54mm specification dedicated sniper rifle bullet. However, this high-precision dedicated sniper rifle is not adapted to the Type 85 sniper rifle, but is improved and upgraded from the Type 85 sniper rifle. It is called the "magic-modified 85 sniper" NSG-85 semi-automatic sniper rifle.
NSG-85 sniper rifle basically improved all the shortcomings of the previous Type 85 sniper rifle. A longer Picatinny tactical guide is installed above the receiver. Not only can various white light and night vision scopes be installed, but the installation firmness is much higher than the original Type 85 sniper rifle side-mounted type. In addition, the longer Picatinny tactical rails can directly install night vision sighting equipment in series without disassembling the white light sighting lens. In addition, in order to facilitate shooters to quickly change sights, numbers are also specially marked on Picatinny's tactical guides for easy memory. In addition to using better materials and production processes, the barrel of
also adopts a floating design, and the handguard does not have direct contact with the barrel, reducing the impact of vibration on shooting accuracy. At the same time, in response to the needs of sniper operations, the bipod was changed to be placed under the guard, further improving the shooting accuracy. After testing, the NSG-85 sniper rifle was at a distance of 100m and the shooting density was no more than 3.5cm. At a distance of 600m, the shooting density is no more than 26.1cm. At a distance of 800m, the shooting density is no more than 42cm.
Because the performance of the Type 88 sniper rifle is not good, and the promisingness of the lethality of the .62mm sniper rifle has once been proposed in China to re-equip our army with the NSG-85 sniper rifle. However, the accuracy of the NSG-85 sniper rifle can only be regarded as an accurate rifle, and is positioned the same as the QBU-191 precision rifle that is currently being widely promoted on the ground, but the ammunition cannot be used with the 191 gun family and 95 gun family, and the overall cost-effectiveness is not as good as the QBU-191 precision rifle.
. In terms of high-precision sniper rifles, our army also has models such as CS/LR-4/4A sniper rifles and 203 sniper rifles, which is destined that the NSG-85 sniper rifles are destined to be out of reach with the People's Liberation Army.
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