Type 85: China’s Special Forces SMG (Regular and Silenced Versions)

Jason Clower’s video on the development and use of the Type 85:

The Type 85 was a submachine gun developed in the 1980s in China to replace the failure that was the Type 79. It was a very simple design; firing from an open bolt and using a plain blowback action chambered for 7.62x25mm Tokarev. Two different models were made, one regular and one with an integral suppressor.

Type 79 SMG: https://youtu.be/dWIbsLxqBPc

2 Comments

  1. Letter Q is for qingxing (light, the regular version is light smg according to chinese standard as it’s less than 2kg) and W is for weisheng (silenced)

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