In the field of military industry, China has been aiming at the world's cutting-edge technologies, one is the United States and the other is the Soviet Union. But the United States is too far away, and its design and manufacture are not compatible with China's. Therefore, China often finds the gap from the weapons comparison with the Soviet Union to catch up.

In the 1980s, the Soviet army had a large-caliber NSV "Rock" heavy machine gun, which was very important in the battle of a large group of troops. However, China thinks that China still lacks similar weapons, so he also plans to develop a heavy machine gun, but it must be lighter.

During the founding of the People's Republic of China, China had its own military industry system. Although not as good as other countries, the military has been working hard. At that time, the Soviet army had NSV rock heavy machine guns, so the China military also wanted to develop a light heavy machine gun. Unfortunately, the military department has never seen the NSV rock machine gun, only knowing that it weighs 25 kilograms, so China has developed a 26-kilogram Type 89 heavy machine gun.

At that time, China didn't know the details of NSV "Rock", or even had never seen it before, except that this heavy machine gun weighed only 25 kilograms. After a while, China produced Type 89 heavy machine guns, weighing 26 kilograms, which seemed to be only a little heavier than NSV "Rock".

However, the performance of Model 89 is quite poor. Heavy machine guns have a large caliber, and the barrel is quite slim for slimming. When shooting, the jitter is very bad, it feels like dancing, and the accuracy is very poor. In order to solve this problem, it is fixed on the vehicle, but the accuracy is still not ideal.

However, Type 89 is very famous for two reasons. First, machine guns. The bullets used in China were the most advanced "new armor-piercing explosive incendiary bombs" at that time. You know, at that time, our country had to make the barrel very thin in order to meet the "lightest" standard of the Soviet Union.

However, because the barrel of Type 89 is too thin, it will produce violent jitter every time it is fired. This kind of bullet is equipped to reduce the performance problems of the gun itself.

One more thing, the machine gun developed by China was the lightest heavy machine gun in the world at that time. This kind of heavy machine gun has average performance, large caliber and unstable shooting. In order to solve this problem, we have to install fixed vehicles, but the ballistic walking effect is still not good, and there is no military use at present.

Type 89 heavy machine gun is the worst weapon in the world, but its total weight is the lightest machine gun. The Soviet NSV heavy machine gun has only 25 kilograms without tripod and other devices.

Isn't the Soviet Union lighter than our country? That's not true. The Soviet Union's 25 kilograms is the weight of bare guns, and China's 26 kilograms is the total weight. A heavy machine gun has set a new world record for our country and forced the world to know us again.