By Top War
The PLA Marine Corps is armed with a significant amount of heavy equipment and weapons: floating Tanks, amphibious infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers, as well as various towed and self-propelled artillery systems. However, given the specifics of the actions, there is a high probability that a small unit of marines, landed on the enemy coast without the support of armored vehicles and artillery, may encounter superior enemy forces. In this case, the standard infantry fire weapons of the platoon, company and battalion level, which can be carried by personnel, are of particular importance: automatic and rocket-propelled grenade launchers, as well as anti-tank systems with guided missiles rockets.
Automatic grenade launchers
Automatic grenade launchers are primarily designed to defeat enemy manpower and unarmored vehicles. But in the case of using cumulative ammunition, they are able to successfully combat armored vehicles with bulletproof protection. An important quality of automatic grenade launchers is the ability to conduct overhead fire, which allows you to destroy targets hidden in the folds of the terrain.
The Chinese Armed Forces received their functional analogue of the AGS-17 much later than the Soviet Army. It was only in the late 1980s that Norinco mastered the production of the 35-mm automatic grenade launcher QLZ87, which is also known as the Type 87.
35mm QLZ87 grenade launchers on a tripod and bipod
Chinese engineers, having become familiar with the American 40-mm Mk 19 and the Soviet 30-mm AGS-17, preferred to create a model with a free-bolt automatic mechanism, albeit inferior to foreign mounted grenade launchers in practical rate of fire, but with less weight and dimensions, which in turn allowed for maintenance weapons by one fighter…
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