In recent years, due to the needs of the Sino-Indian border struggle, the priority of the rearmament of our army's troops in the Sino-Indian border area has been greatly improved. After our army announced not long ago that the whole army would change its 21-type uniform, our troops on the Sino-Indian border have completed the change of type 21 uniform. Interestingly, in this public report, in addition to the Type 21 uniform, we also saw another interesting piece of equipment - the QCQ-171 type 9mm submachine gun.
The QCQ-171 9mm submachine gun is a new firearm that our army is currently reloading on a large scale with the 191 gun family, the new squad machine gun and the new sniper rifle. Unlike many of the guns equipped with our army, the QCQ-171 type 9mm submachine gun was originally a foreign trade product, numbered CS/LR-7 type 9mm submachine gun. Later, because of its excellent overall performance, it was favored by our army and equipped with a large number of equipment, and successfully "exported to domestic sales."
The QCQ-171 9mm submachine gun was first unveiled as the official equipment of our army in the 2019 National Day parade, and the gun was mainly equipped to armored detachments, such as armored repair detachments to participate in the parade. This also shows that the gun will replace the various types of firearms that our army's second-line combat units have been equipping for a long time.
However, the Sino-Indian border area is not only at high risk of conflict, but also the intensity of combat. According to normal circumstances, our army should be equipped with assault rifles with a longer range and greater power.
Even with portability considerations, the QBZ-192 short assault rifle has a much better combat performance than the QCQ-171 9mm submachine gun. So, why should the QCQ-171 9mm submachine gun be equipped for our troops on the Sino-Indian border?
To find out the status and role of the QCQ-171 type 9mm submachine gun in our army, we must first understand the development history of our army's submachine gun.
Unlike the European and American military submachine guns that have retained 9mm and 11.43mm calibers for a long time, the early development of small arms in our army has a very strong Soviet style. For example, the domestically produced Type 50 submachine gun and type 53 submachine gun equipped during the Period of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea were prototypes of the "Bobosha" submachine gun and the "Bobos" submachine gun of the Soviet period, and the caliber was all 7.62mm.
Type 50 submachine gun
Subsequently, a number of military submachine guns developed by China itself, whether it is the Type 64 submachine gun, the Type 79 submachine gun, the Type 82 submachine gun or the Type 85 submachine gun, although the ammunition used is slightly different, but the caliber is the same, all 7.62mm. This situation did not change until the advent of the Type 05 submachine gun.
Type 79 submachine gun
The Type 05 low-sound submachine gun is one of the products of our army's idea of a stockless gun family, when our army hoped to unify the caliber of pistols, submachine guns, rifles, squad machine guns, and general machine guns into 5.8mm calibers to simplify logistical pressure. But in fact, this idea still has some problems in practice, such as 5.8mm pistol bullets, which cannot be used with 5.8mm rifle bullets.
Is type 05 micro-punch a "good gun"? Personally, I think so. But the problem is that the Type 05 micro-sound submachine gun can no longer meet the needs of our army in most cases at present. The Type 05 submachine gun is good compared to the QCQ-171 Type 9mm submachine gun, just like the 95 gun family and the 191 gun family, but it is not good enough.
First of all, because of the unique stockless design, it is mostly "people adapting to guns", rather than "guns adapting to people". The QCQ-171 9mm submachine gun adopts a retractable stock design for better adaptability. And its more and longer Picatinny tactical rails also make its tactical expansion performance better than the Type 05 submachine gun.
So, why didn't the QCQ-171 submachine gun continue to use the 5.8mm caliber? - Lack of kinetic energy.
In order to ensure the needs of low-sound combat, the Type 05 micro-acoustic submachine gun uses a DCV-05 type 5.8mm microsonic bullet, and its muzzle kinetic energy is 220 joules, while the muzzle kinetic energy of the 9mm pistol bullet reaches 518 joules, which is more than twice the muzzle kinetic energy of its muzzle. Our army does attach great importance to the armor-piercing performance of guns and bullets, but it has not yet reached the point where "armor piercing is supreme." After all, it is not whose armor-piercing performance is stronger, whose stop force is stronger.
Therefore, the reason why the QCQ-171 type 9mm submachine gun is favored by our army and purchases equipment on a large scale is that it can make up for the various deficiencies of the original 05 type micro-sound submachine gun.
In addition to the 2019 National Day parade, the QCQ-171 type 9mm submachine gun has also begun to appear in various combat units. Here are two more typical appearances. The first time it was used for the Jiaolong Commando team, and the second time it was used in airborne operations for the troops stationed in Tibet.
The Jiaolong Commando uses the QCQ-171 type 9mm submachine gun, which represents that the gun has now met the performance requirements of our special operations forces in various harsh combat environments. At least in our special forces, the 9mm submachine gun is useful. The second appearance represents that our army believes that the 9mm submachine gun can also be used in the front-line combat environment.
The biggest reason why many people "don't look down" on the 9mm submachine gun is that its armor-piercing performance is not strong enough, and it cannot be effectively penetrated in the face of high-grade body armor. But in fact, at present, the performance of the body armor equipped by the armies of various countries is not bad, and some of the body armor can even block the direct attack of the 7.62X51mm full-power rifle cartridge after inserting the bulletproof insert.
Compared with the 192 short thrust, the QCQ-171 9mm submachine gun has a lighter structure, lower recoil and a better overall operating experience. It is more convenient than short bursts when it is necessary to quickly deploy alerts, such as the vigilantes who first descend from the helicopter cabin to the ground.
After all, the 192 short burst is still a rifle bullet
In modern battlefields, the role of light weapons is getting lower and lower, and in most cases it is heavy firepower that determines the outcome of the battle. The 9mm submachine gun is no worse than the short assault rifle in an emergency. Even because the 9mm recoil is lower, the quick pressing effect is a little better. After all, you are an opponent, and when you see the opposite direction shooting at you, the first reaction is to dodge, rather than betting on whether the opponent's bullets can penetrate your protective equipment.
The main force is 3 95B-1 short assault rifles
In this public report, a total of 5 fighters appeared, of which 2 were equipped with QCQ-171 9mm submachine guns, and the other 3 were equipped with 95B-1 short assault rifles, the main force of firepower assault was 3 95B-1 short assault rifles, and 2 QCQ-171 9mm submachine guns only played an auxiliary role.
As for the range of the 9mm submachine gun, although the nominal effective range of the submachine gun is between 150-200 meters, many people may feel that it is not enough to look at the data. But in fact, the combat distance of 200 meters is already a common engagement distance for modern rapid-fire light weapons, and the QCQ-171 9mm submachine gun is equipped with a QMQ-171 holographic sight, which is more difficult to aim at targets at a longer distance.
Therefore, the 9mm submachine gun equipped with front-line combat troops is only the norm of our army's equipment collocation.
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