To develop a new gun for good looks, regardless of performance? China really did it just to prove itself to Western countries

In the ten years from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, a number of models that emphasized political influence in design purposes and whose appearance and image were prioritized to use performance emerged in China. These models are regarded as examples of the distortion of the law of "military obedience to politics". . The first of these models of

was the 87A rifle used in the 8910 military parade. By the mid-1980s, the domestic technology introduction in the past 10 years of reform and opening up began to produce results, but there was no time to show it in the 1984 military parade.

To make up for this regret, to show the world that the Chinese army is no longer an army that can only be equipped with old Russian-style imitations and improvements; shortly after the military parade in 1984, the country began preparations for the 40th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. The 8910 project is the parade support project implemented in 1986. The

87A rifle is a dressing project specially set up for the effect of the military parade. The 87 rifle (the 81 rifle of the 5.8 caliber version) strives to pass the handguard, buttstock, magazine and other peripheral components without moving the basic structure. The changes make it seem to be able to break away from the characteristics of Russian-style firearms (especially the AK series) and closer to advanced Western firearms.