page_title: QBZ-95
section_title: QJB-95 LSW (Light Support Weapon)
hierarchical_section_title: QBZ-95 / Variants / Military variants / QJB-95 LSW (Light Support Weapon)
caption_attribution_description: Side-view of QBB-95
context_page_description: The Type 95 Automatic Rifle or QBZ-95 is a bullpup assault rifle designed and manufactured by Norinco, and issued since 1995 as the service rifle for the People's Liberation Army, People's Armed Police and various paramilitary law enforcement agencies in the People's Republic of China. The rifle's designation "QBZ" stands for "light weapon - rifle - automatic", in keeping with the coding standards of the Chinese defense industry.
  The QBZ-95 is the flagship of the Type 95 gun family, a family of firearms sharing a common receiver design, which includes a standard rifle, a carbine and a light support weapon variants. It fires the 5.8×42mm DBP87, an indigenous intermediate cartridge. An export version chambered for 5.56×45mm NATO, the QBZ-97, is available for sale in Canada and various countries in Southeast Asia, South Asia and East Africa.
context_section_description: The squad automatic weapon variant of the QBZ-95. The designation "QJB" stands for "Qingwuqing, Jiqiang, Banyong", which means "Light weapon/Small arm, Machinegun, Squad-use". It has an added bipod, a longer, heavier barrel and 80-round drum magazine to allow sustained fire, however, the standard 30-round box magazine is also compatible. Although the QJB-95 and QBZ-95 both take the standard 5.8×42mm DBP87 round, the QJB-95 typically uses the 5.8x42mm DBP88 "heavy round" squad automatic weapon and designated marksman rifle cartridges, which have longer, deeper armour penetration and better ballistics at long range. As using the heavy rounds on a QBZ-95 would greatly wear the barrel in action, normal cartridges are used on QBZ-95 rifles. However, with the fielding of the QBZ-95-1 variant, newer and heavier DBP10 cartridges will become the standard ammunition for both weapons.
caption: The QJB-95 LSW with a drum mag and folded bipod
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