Q&A: Chinese Small Arms w/ Jason Clower from Type 56: The Story of China's Army скачать в хорошем качестве

Q&A: Chinese Small Arms w/ Jason Clower from Type 56: The Story of China's Army

My book "Pistols of the Warlords" is available through Headstamp Publishing: https://www.headstamppublishing.com/c... Today I am very happy to welcome Jason Clower as our Q&A guest. Jason runs the channel ‪@Type56_Ordnance_Dept‬ "Type 56: The Story of China's Army" where he teaches the history of the PLA and its small arms, combat tactics, strategy, and logistics to a depth found nowhere else in the English-speaking internet. So naturally, today's questions are based on Chinese small arms history... 0:01:00 - The PLA and the bayonet. 0:08:00 - How did the Great Depression impact Chinese arms production? 0:14:03 - Was the Type 63 abandoned before or during the Cultural Revolution? China’s Deadly Self-Sniper Rifle, the Type 63:    • China’s Deadly Self-Sniper Rifle, the Type 63   China’s Type 63 Rifle: Better Than an AK-47 and SKS Combined?:    • China’s Type 63 Rifle: Better Than an AK-4...   0:16:49 - Has China just copied guns for the past 100 years or did they develop their own things? 0:23:55 - How does Chinese production quality compare to Eastern bloc nations? 0:29:15 - Different arms for Chiang Kai-shek and Mao? 0:34:46 - If Jason could have one Chinese gun, what would it be? Chinese FN 1900s: From Wauser to Browningsbrowningsbrownings:    • Chinese FN 1900s: From Wauser to Brownings...   0:37:02 - What about the SKS-M with its detachable AK magazine? 0:41:45 - How did it go from Cultural Revolution to massive SKS sales to Western consumers? 0:48:21 - Could the Type 79 have been successful as a concept? Curse of China’s Type 79: The Gun That Blighted Every Life It Touched:    • Curse of China’s Type 79: The Gun That Bli...   Type 79 SMG: China's MP7 At Home:    • Type 79 SMG: China's MP7 At Home   0:53:18 - Allocating leftover Civil War era guns to the militia vs to foreign military allies 0:58:56 - Did any modernizers survive Mao's purges? 1:03:15 - Why are all the guns "Type 56"? 1:06:24 - What's the "Q" designation all about? 1:07:15 - When did China develop a unique national identity in its small arms? 1:09:36 - Chinese RPD use 1:13:55 - Jason's background The best firearms reference books: https://www.headstamppublishing.com   / forgottenweapons   http://www.floatplane.com/channel/For... Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! http://shop.forgottenweapons.com