Many China soldiers who joined the army after 1980s have deep feelings for Bayi rifles, including those who entered the reserve training after 1990s. The first shooting was with Bayi rifles. Bayi rifle is one of the best assault rifles in the world. Although many people think that it is only a transitional rifle, after all, 95 rifles, 03 rifles and so on all came out later, but the power of Bayi Bar in jungle combat can be said to make AK47 feel scared.
At the same time, the Bayi rifle also has an ability that contemporary rifles can't catch up with, including: global rifles such as M 16, AK47 and HK33E, that is, the ability to launch grenades. After the barrel of Bayi rifle was modified, the distance of launching Grenade at that time could reach 200 meters. The grenade developed by China at that time can be said to be suitable for personnel carriers, jeeps and small bunkers. At the same time, due to the complete fusion of trajectories, the shooting accuracy is quite high. It is recorded that our army shot it into the machine gun bunker within the range of 150 meters, and this record has been maintained to this day.
After the guns of our army were changed, a few of Bayi rifles, 56 assault rifles and 56 semi-automatic rifles were used by reserve or militia, and the rest were exported for sale and foreign aid. Because Bayi rifle has the history of actual combat in the jungle and the good performance of Grenade, and its price is cheap, many countries dominated by jungle like to use Bayi rifle, and Myanmar is one of them. The Myanmar army is also the army that has a special liking for Bayi rifle.
Up to now, Bayi rifle has served in the Burmese army, and its longest service life has reached more than 20 years, exceeding the AK47 assault rifle used by the Burmese army. Moreover, the Burmese army has also made many improvements to the Bayi rifle, such as gun stock, tactical guide rail and Grenade launching capability.
What surprises the world most is that the Burmese army has improved the Bayi rifle into a Grenade launcher with Grenade firing as the main part and bullet shooting as the auxiliary part. It adds a large "perforated sleeve" to the barrel of the Bayi type, which acts as a compensator (also called a brake) when the Grenade is launched, so that its shooting distance reaches 400 meters, which is equivalent to the range of RPG rockets. At the same time, the Grenade launcher is specially designed for Bayi, and it is also equipped with a special arm for Grenade launchers. The tactical armed kit of grenade launcher is also specially designed, which can carry 8 to 12 grenades at a time.
Although Bayi rifle is considered as a transitional product, its role in individual combat is very huge. It has been in service for 37 years and has been used as a standard weapon by many armies. At the same time, there are more than 20 improved versions of it. In some armies, Bayi rifle is equivalent to AK47.