History of Factory 296

[The_Red_Rabbit]

Found this interesting article on Factory 296.

 

[MapleSugar]

Great! That's kind of like those Chinese telemarketers that constantly phone me and leave messages in Mandarin.

The only problem is, I don't understand Mandarin.

 

[Zortron]

English only

 

[Ironers]

The picture were all I needed.

 

[Boris Badinov]

@ The_Red_Rabbit --

do yo have a link to the webpage where you found this?

Very cool.

 

[Curtton]

i wonder if TI could bring in those 20 rds mags with star?

 

[MiG25]

It starts of by saying they invented gunpowder in the year 296.

 

[The_Red_Rabbit]

@ The_Red_Rabbit --

do yo have a link to the webpage where you found this?

Very cool.

Sorry. This article is from a magazine called "Infantry Weapons" in China. I believe it was from 2021.

 

[The_Red_Rabbit]

i wonder if TI could bring in those 20 rds mags with star?

That is the Type 63!

I have a theory that after Factory 296 stopped production of Type 63s, they used the same tooling for the Type 56, SKS. Thus, the SN 23, 24 Million Type 56 has polymer handguard, in the same pattern as the Type 63s.

 

[Karnage]

Took me a while to read it with Google Translate. Interesting.

 

[zulu5]

Really cool article, thanks for posting. So the Type 81 is also made at /26\, along with the SKS'.