Type 67 (machine gun)
| Type 67 | |
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| general information | |
| Military designation: | MG type 67 |
| Country of operation: | China |
| Developer / Manufacturer: | since 1980 Norinco |
| Manufacturer country: | China |
| Production time: | since 1967 |
| Model variants: | 67 / 67-1 / 67-2 |
| Weapon Category: | Machine gun |
| Furnishing | |
| Overall length: | 1143-1345 mm |
| Weight: (unloaded) | 10-11 kg |
| Barrel length : | 605 mm |
| Technical specifications | |
| Caliber : | 7.62 × 54 mm rows |
| Ammunition supply : | Ammunition belts |
| Cadence : | 650-700 rounds / min |
| Fire types: | only continuous fire |
| Closure : | Tilt block closure |
| Charging principle: | Gas pressure loader, closing |
| Lists on the subject | |
The Type 67 machine gun is an infantry weapon that was introduced to the Chinese People's Liberation Army around 1970 and is still part of their equipment today.
draft
In the mid-1960s, the Chinese military commissioned the development of a universal machine gun. The previous models were mostly replicas of Russian designs and were considered too cumbersome. The People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union had, however, has since fallen out , so you now no longer could hope for Russian support for a new development. For this reason, existing weapons were used for almost all components:
- the barrel with changing device comes from the Gorjunow SG-43
- the belt feed from the Maxim
- the gas pressure loading mechanism, the toggle lock and the piston were taken from the Czech ZB vz. 26 borrowed
- the gas pressure regulator comes from the RPD-44
- the handle and the trigger group come from the DPM
Embossed steel techniques were not used in the production, which is why the early variants of the MG were more difficult than comparable models from other countries.
Loading mechanism
The ammunition was not developed in-house either. Russian rim cartridges in caliber 7.62 × 54 mm R were still used. This ammunition was originally designed for multi-loading rifles in Tsarist Russia and, due to its rim, was not very suitable for use in automatic weapons. MGs developed in the Soviet Union therefore had a mechanism that first pulled the cartridges out of the belt and only then inserted them into the chamber. China wanted to avoid this solution and created a special cartridge belt from which the cartridges could be pushed down and fed in immediately. All the belts previously used in China that used the same ammunition could no longer be used in the new Type 67. The feed was from the right, empty tubes were ejected downwards.
literature
- Günter Wollert, Reiner Lidschun, Wilfried Copenhagen: Rifles today . Military publishing house of the GDR , Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-327-00513-3 .
- Terry Gander: Modern machine guns. An international overview . Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-613-02013-0 .