The full name of Type 79 submachine gun is "1979 7.62mm light submachine gun", which is the first light submachine gun independently developed, designed and equipped in China. 1979 qualified, and then equip the troops. It has the characteristics of small size, great power and light weight, and is mainly equipped with troops and police.
Born in twists and turns
1965, a research institute under the Ministry of War Industry was asked to research and manufacture a submachine gun suitable for the army to fight in the jungle, referred to as "jungle submachine gun". Because the research conditions at that time were very difficult, the technicians who participated in the research were college students who just graduated from school and had no rich experience; In addition, the industrial level in China was not high at that time, and the processing conditions were relatively low. Even the prototype of the gun is produced by a machinery factory with no gun processing experience, so the test results of the sample gun participating in the test can be imagined. ?
At the beginning of development, ten years of catastrophe brought a lot of resistance to this "jungle submachine gun". The progress of gun development is slow, and even it can't be carried out normally. Finally, the project was forced to stop. Although the research and development work was resumed in 1967, it stopped again two years later.
1970, the PLA General Staff Department put forward the demand for a portable submachine gun. The development of this new submachine gun is under the responsibility of 208. Since then, the "jungle submachine gun" has a new name-"7.62 mm light submachine gun". However, in the subsequent test, it still failed. It was not until three tests were carried out that it finally passed the test and was recognized by the army.
1979, this bumpy submachine gun finally passed the approval of China Small Arms Stereotype Committee, and the design was finalized. It was named 1979 7.62 mm submachine gun. The tortuous test course makes this submachine gun full of legend.
Unique bones and muscles
Type 79 submachine gun adopts all-inclusive sight with "China characteristics" and notched door protected by square shield, plus slim appearance and rigid folding stock, which makes it highly recognizable. Type 79 submachine gun has a joke among domestic military fans, that is, "more MG3, single MP5".
Due to the short bolt stroke, the automatic machine is light in weight, and the continuous firing rate is too fast. The theoretical firing rate is 1 100 rounds per minute. But in actual combat, experienced shooters will skillfully use 79 dozen short shots to achieve higher shooting efficiency. Single-shot MP5 is said because the 79 submachine gun has high single-shot accuracy.
Why is Type 79 submachine gun a submachine gun with high shooting accuracy? This is because the 79 submachine gun adopts the principle of automatic air conduction, closes the bore and waits for the strike, and the bolt is locked in a rotating way, so the shooting accuracy is very good. Comfortable pistol grip and lighter trigger force also make the gun more comfortable to use, so it is easier to hit higher accuracy. ?
From the appearance, the Type 79 submachine gun is quite small, because it uses a folding stock. When the butt is folded, the whole gun is only 470mm, and when the butt is unfolded, it is only 740 mm, which is shorter and more flexible than the Type 64 submachine gun and Type 54 light submachine gun used in China before.
The 79 submachine gun, like the 54 pistol, uses a 5 1 pistol, which makes the 79 Chong have a good lethality. At the same time, the gun is also very light. The empty gun weighs 1.75kg, and the real magazine is only 2. 1kg, which is much lighter than the Type 54 submachine gun (3kg) that also fires 5 1 pistol bullets.
Type 79 uses 20 short magazines. This kind of magazine with small capacity is not consistent with its high firing rate, and it will also cause insufficient firepower persistence of firearms to some extent. Type 79 submachine gun adopts the principle of piston short stroke air conduction automation, which is rarely used between similar weapons.
The 79 submachine gun adopts this automatic principle to ensure that the gun is reliable enough. However, before the production design of 79 submachine gun, its high firing rate led to the accidental fracture of the pull rod handle. This problem is solved by grooving the handle of the wire drawing machine until the production is completed.
79' s ammunition truck is a chest hanger, which is smaller than 56' s chest hanger, and two small warehouses on both sides are smaller than 56' s chest hanger (56 four, 79 two). There are four long magazines, each of which can hold a magazine of a 79 submachine gun. (The tarpaulin was sewn in Hitoshi Kurauchi) This is an ordinary canvas strap, similar to the one in Type 56 assault rifle, with X-belt chest hanging.
Start showing your talents.
1979, the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam officially started. During the ten-year border war, our army used the battlefield as a testing ground for new weapons. The Type 79 submachine gun was also "unwilling to lag behind" and participated in this mighty defense war in southern Xinjiang. On the battlefield, the short and pithy 79 submachine gun is favored by officers and men of the first-line reconnaissance troops. The soldiers are satisfied with the light submachine gun with foldable butt. Its small and slender appearance is very easy to hide, and the lightweight gun body also gives scouts more load-bearing space to load more equipment.
Soldiers of reconnaissance troops often put 79 submachine guns, 56- 1 submachine guns and 64 submachine guns into bamboo baskets for hiding when disguised as border people for reconnaissance. However, when concealed, because the body of the 56- 1 submachine gun is relatively wide, it is usually necessary to disassemble the magazine to carry it more conveniently; However, the 64 micro-acoustic submachine gun is long because of its thick silencer, so it often needs to be disassembled and carried.
But the short 79 submachine gun does not have these troubles. Type 79 submachine gun is outstanding in tasks such as arrest and reconnaissance. Its high firing speed and light weight always enable the shooter to shoot the enemy first and quickly suppress the enemy. During a border reconnaissance mission, the Vietnamese special forces and our reconnaissance troops were attacked.
The commanders of both sides ordered the fire almost at the same time. However, due to the first sound of the 79 submachine gun, the enemy agent team was suppressed by fire in a short time, and finally it could only end in total annihilation. Not only is it fighting behind enemy lines, but it is also important to rush to the front battlefield. 19861June14th, in the little-known 968 Highland Pull (code name-Lan Jian B), Ma Quanbin, the assault captain who was shot in the face, covered the wound with his hand and fired back at the Vietnamese army in Highland with a 79 submachine gun.
This scene can be said to give the author a very deep impression, and it also shows that the recoil of the 79 submachine gun is quite low, and the shooter can shoot with one hand. Lighter trigger force can also make some shots easier to shoot. ?
1988 and 199 1 In the past two years, the annual output of Type 79 submachine guns has exceeded 30,000. In that era when assault rifles were rampant, such high-yield submachine guns were rare in China. From this, we can also see the excellent performance of the Type 79 submachine gun. Kalashnikov, the famous father of AK, also played this type of 79 submachine gun called "Little AK" when he visited China.
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At the time of initial production, due to various factors, the quality control of the 79 submachine gun was not done well. In order to facilitate production, the manufacturer modified the process, resulting in the 79 submachine gun not leaving the factory for two years. This led the military to demand the re-development of a light submachine gun. In this context, the Type 85 submachine gun, commonly known as "the masterpiece of the plumber", was hastily designed and manufactured.
At the same time, the 79 submachine gun has also improved its technology and adopted more advanced processing methods. Finally, the 79 submachine gun is mainly equipped with the armed police force and the public security department; The Type 85 submachine gun replaced the Type 79 submachine gun of the People's Liberation Army and became a new submachine gun for field troops, reconnaissance troops and special forces.
Foreign freshmen
Type 79 submachine gun is mainly equipped in armed police force and public security department. Although the gun was originally designed by the "jungle submachine gun" proposed by the military, it continues to serve in these two seemingly unrelated places. Model 79 submachine gun has good performance and compact body, which has obvious advantages in law enforcement actions such as drug control and customs inspection. The small and convenient gun body can move freely in narrow spaces such as cabins, vehicles and corridors. When the butt of the gun is folded, the gun doesn't take up much space in the cab, which is very suitable for plainclothes police to carry concealed.
For the police, the high firing rate of the 79 submachine gun is very embarrassing, but most police usually don't use automatic shooting when shooting. Twenty rounds of magazines are very enough for them, and the high precision of single shot is very suitable for the police. They can even be used as close-range sniper weapons to attack gangsters and rescue hostages. Type 79 submachine gun has used its good performance in other posts, and the task has been completed well, but with the passage of time, the monotonous old 79 looks a little old-fashioned.
be reborn
There are many special police forces in our country. But unlike SWAT, which is equipped with various accessories to adapt to various environments, we usually only have naked guns. Nowadays, modularization has become the mainstream, and the related modified parts of Type 79 submachine gun have also emerged. As early as 2000, Guangzhou Special Police installed tactical lights and laser indicators on the barrel of 79 Chong. Mr. Li Jiahao (@ Li Jiahao ACP), a Hong Kong citizen, added a lamp guard similar to MP5 to the 79 submachine gun, which increased the fixed position of the sight. This product is called PEAK79.
The sight is installed to make it easier for users of 79 submachine guns to aim, and the gun lamp solves the shooting problem in low visibility environment. Later, Mr. Li Jiahao introduced the TAPS79 series wood protector, which was completely incomparable with the PEAK79. TAPS79 is no longer an extra wooden protective cover, but a chassis from beginning to end, in which 79 is embedded.
The folding butt of the 79 submachine gun was changed into a telescopic butt, which made it more comfortable to shoot at the shoulder and greatly enhanced ergonomics. Of course, wood protection is still modular design, which increases the ability of accessories. Later, Shenzhen Defender Company also introduced a modified part for the Type 79 submachine gun.
This modified part is divided into two parts: the front wooden guard plate and the rear gunstock, which can be selectively installed. Because it is necessary to completely disassemble the original 79 folding seat and reinstall the fixed telescopic seat (non-foldable), it is complicated and difficult to transform and the fixing effect is not particularly good. Of course, the universal leather rail design also has the ability to freely match accessories. The concept of modified parts has been widely accepted by local troops, and about 79 modified parts with different designs have been equipped in places where conditions permit.
With the great development of domestic drone industry in recent years, police officers have also begun to equip and use drones. They use drones as a platform, equipped with cameras and weapons for law enforcement. However, the load of UAV is limited, and there are certain requirements for the shooting accuracy of weapons. So what weapons are these drones carrying? Yes, it is a 79 submachine gun. Its lightweight body and good shooting accuracy have been well used again.
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The 79-type 7.62mm submachine gun has gone through the development course of 15 years, and has experienced many difficulties and hardships along the way. It was once born for the jungle, but now it is active in the city. Its design is not very advanced, and it is still backward in the eyes of now, but the modular transformation has given it new vitality.
Type 79 submachine gun data
Country of origin: China.
7.62 mm caliber
7.62mm5 1 pistol.
The total length of the gun is 740mm/470mm (the stock is opened/folded).
The barrel length is 250 mm.
The total mass of the gun is 1.9kg.
The bomb load is 20r (there is a 30r magazine, but it is useless).
Automatic mode air conduction type
Lock-mode headstock rotation
Theoretical firing rate per minute 1000 rounds.
The combat firing rate is 70- 100 rounds per minute.
Effective range is 200 meters
Equipped with target police, armed police, PLA service (especially investigation), bank escort, etc.
Upgrade of Type 79 submachine gun
With the establishment of special police units by local public security organs in recent years, the 79 submachine gun is becoming the main weapon of domestic special police, and the emergence of many modified kits makes it more suitable for this new role. At the beginning, these so-called modifications just clipped SUER-FIRE tactical lights and laser indicators directly on the barrel. At the end of 2000, the submachine gun used by Guangzhou PSM special police team was the first submachine gun with SUER-FIRE in the eyes of the media.
Since then, there are many schemes to upgrade the Type 79 submachine gun, among which a series of upgrading schemes named ACP brand designed and launched by a Hong Kong resident named Li Jiahao are the most widely used.
Li Jiahao's original design was to refit the original American SUER-FIRE MP5 tactical light guard (original product number #628) and transplant it to the 79 submachine gun, and added a sight base. At the same time, it solves the problem that the 79 submachine gun is difficult to hold and install the sight.
The product he designed was named PEAK79, which was exhibited at the first China International Police Equipment Expo in 2002, and was provided to Shenzhen Special Police for the first time in the same period. In 2008, he introduced a cheaper simplified version called WTW-79H, which was equipped with tactical lights and laser pens, but there was no aiming interface.
Li Jiahao's second official work is the TAPS79 tactical guard wood with MIL-STD-1913 Picatinny track (full name: 79 SMG tactical adapter platform system), which we can often see in special police teams all over the country.
In fact, TAPS79 and PEAK79 were both developed in 2002. However, because the design difficulty of PEAK79 was relatively low, it was released just in time for the Beijing Police Equipment Exhibition held in June of that year, while TAPS79 did not make samples and began testing until the beginning of 2003, and then it was not finalized until the end of 2003 because of the objective situation of SASR.
TAPS79 is characterized in that picatinny guide rail can be installed in four directions, up, down, left and right, and the accessories can be assembled more freely. At the beginning, TAPS79 was promoted in cooperation with Beijing Guardian in 2004, and was announced at the police equipment exhibition that year.
Until the cooperation with Guardian ended in 2006, * * * launched the second generation of TAPS79, so there were 1 and the second generation of TAPS79 copied by others on the market. Later, he continued to improve the TAPS79 and designed other tactical accessories for the Type 79 submachine gun. So far, five TAPS 79s have been launched.
TAPS79 from 1 generation to the 5th generation consists of four parts: main body, front lock, rear lock and muzzle flame arrester. The main difference is that the main body of 1 and generation 2 is cylindrical. In the third generation, it became a rectangle with a full-length lower Picatinny railing. The fourth generation front lock can be replaced by the upper cover with leather guide rail, which provides a more flexible choice for the installation of accessories. The difference between the 4th generation and the 5th generation is that the 4th generation is an ordinary flame arrester, and the 5th generation is equipped with a quick-release muffler, which can be directly sleeved on the newly designed muzzle flame arrester.
Li Jiahao also provides upgrading and improvement plans for other Type 79 submachine guns. For example, in order to solve the problem that the chin position is too low and the stock cannot be folded in place after the sight is installed on the guide rail, he converted the 79 submachine gun into a retractable stock and put it on the top of the box.
In addition, it also improves the magazine clip that can be used quickly with both hands (but some people think that the magazine socket originally designed for holding function can be completely sawn short, and it may be better to enlarge the magazine socket into a bell mouth). At present, the Dongguan Special Police Team is the first user of this upgrade scheme.