In the history of China's military industry, there is a gun that has a gun status that is comparable to the classic 56 semi-automatic rifle, which is not used as the main weapon, but is loved by everyone. There are even many European and American netizens who spend thousands of dollars to buy this old gun, and more and many Chinese people are related to this old gun, and people give it a loud nickname - "Big Black Star". This gun is a Type 54 pistol made in China.
The Type 54 pistol was originally modeled after the Soviet Union's generation-famous gun, the Karev TT-33 semi-automatic pistol. The TT-33, which had participated in World War II, was produced in 1933 by the Tula Arsenal, while China directly introduced the original production line of the TT-33 in 1951, and began production in large quantities, named the Type 51 pistol. At the same time, it also began to improve its own military industrial chain, and in 1953, with the help of Soviet experts, a complete chain of small arms and light weapons was basically built. In 1953, due to the shortcomings of the Type 51 pistol that was not easy to hold and the stability was not good in use, under the guidance of Soviet experts, we began to improve it, and today's Type 54 pistol, which is the first standard light weapon after the founding of the country. It is especially worthy of a big book.
The Type 54 pistol uses 7.62x25mm ammunition, which has strong penetration and great power, and has a significant killing effect within 50 meters, which belongs to the military high-power pistol. Enemy soldiers can be lethal with 1-2 guns, and the structure is simple, inexpensive, and convenient for production. According to incomplete statistics, at least 35 million Type 54 pistols were produced! It can be seen that its prevalence in China, and China once used the Type 54 pistol as a foreign aid for direct transportation, so that the neighboring countries, mainly Vietnam, once owned it in large quantities. In the war between the United States and Vietnam that year, being able to obtain a Chinese-made Type 54 pistol was a special honor for the officers and men of the US army, and it could also be brought back to the United States as a trophy. Of course, the price of this guy is not low, starting at a thousand dollars, and there are a lot of enthusiasts flocking to it.
However, with the passage of time, the Type 54 pistol also faces some problems, such as general directivity, general ergonomics, recoil is not easy to control and so on. Especially now the mainstream police guns are 9 mm, 54 also has some 9 mm improvements, but the biggest problem is the magazine capacity, only 8 rounds, in the current dozens of police pistols are also backward. But not hopelessly, China once produced 54 improved firearms, using 9 mm ammunition, magazine capacity of 14 rounds - export number 213A. There is also a 14-round magazine is NP15, but when the export of NP15 is specially equipped with a single clip, which is too difficult to defeat foreign gun enthusiasts, many allow to change the gun where the single row of ammunition 8-round clips, became a 14-round double-row magazine, but other problems have not been solved, the 54 type pre-sale recoil is not easy to control, people who have not undergone professional training are difficult to play a good result. Moreover, the type 54 itself determines that no matter how it is improved, there may be a jam, which is an intolerable situation for military police use.
In general, the Soviet army eliminated the Type 54 pistol decades ago, and the technical level of the Type 54 pistol, which also stayed at the level of the end of World War II, is still a big gap from the mainstream level of small arms now, a 60-year-old gun, it should be treasured as a collection, rather than as a standard equipment in other applications.
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