Chinese Norinco Type 56 rifle family

Hello everyone again, and here is a new work for my section on Foreign Kalashnikovs. If you previously liked the North Korean Type 68 assault rifles, the Hungarian AK-63s and the yugoslav Zastava M64 assault rifles, then you will also like the so famous and iconic Norinco Type 56 assault rifles, also known as "Chinese AK-47" rifles. As its nickname indicates, the Norinco Type 56 assault rifle is the Chinese version of the Soviet AK-47, but with two differences that, since 1956, have made it the standard weapon of the Chinese armed forces (until the year 1995, with the creation of the QBZ-95 assault rifles) and many other countries in the world, mostly Asian. The first difference is in all the models of this weapon, whose mechanism drawer, which in its early years was identical to that of the AK-47, was later replaced by the stamped steel mechanism drawer of the AKM assault rifle, successor weapon to the AK-47 first created in 1959. And the second difference is only in Type 56-1 models, which is none other than its characteristic folding bayonet incorporated under the muzzle. This bayonet made the Norinco Type 56 assault rifle a weapon suitable, at least, for the military doctrine and tactics used by the Vietcong, the North Vietnamese troops and other communist forces that fought in the historically famous Vietnam War. Currently, Norinco Type 56 assault rifles are the standard weapons of the Albanian armed forces, and because these Chinese weapons cost exactly the same cost as the original AK-47 and AKM assault rifles, (as well as rifles North Korean Type 58 and Type 68, the Romanian Pistol Mitralieră, and many other foreign versions and copies of Soviet Kalashnikov rifles) are quite common to be seen and used in any country in Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania, and Latin America. And as I have said in numerous works dedicated to the Foreign Kalashnikovs, the Chinese Norinco Type 56 assault rifles are weapons fully suitable to combat anywhere, climate and terrain on our planet Earth, since, being weapons derived from rifles Soviet Kalashnikovs, too, don't get stuck in mud, sand, water or snow. There are often numerous Type 56 rifles used by fighters from all sides facing each other in the Syrian Civil War. I hope you like my new work and, as I always tell you, another cordial greeting. Until next time