Based on the further optimization of type 95 family, China has developed the second minor caliber weapon ---the
type 97 5.56mm gun family. It includes type 97 assault rifle, 97B short assault rifle, and type 97 light machine gun,
adopting the 5.56 mm bullet, such as SS109, M193 ammunition.

Type 97 has an extended port for easy connection with the magazine. It is using the button type magazine catch, and also compatible with the NATO M16 series magazine.
Type 97 rifle is designed according to the trend of the modern small arms with a bull-pup configuration.

•The bull-pup configuration makes type 97 much shorter while maintaining the barrel length. The overall length is only 760mm. The handy and comfortable features fit for different troops.
•Jumping out from the “rough” impression of Chinese weapons, type 97 has compact sculpt, smart and smooth outline. Gun body (including the receiver top, grip, upper and lower handguard) is made of high strength polymer. The receiver is forged from duralumin, CNC processed. And its surface is processed with hard coat anodizing.
•Steel parts like barrel are processed with super anti-causticity chemistry complex film and black-oxide finish. With module system a wide variety of

grenade launchers and sighting devices (scope, laser pointer, night vision sight and tactical light etc.) can be added on.
•Type 97 barrel was processed with the chilled casting to increase the accuracy. The bull-pup stock in straight-line
makes the barrel axis and the butt stock barycenter nearly on the same line, which reduces the muzzle
climbing to increase the accuracy.
•Type 97 is easy to be disassembled, and reasonable barycenter ensures the balance and stabilization of the gun.
•Before finalizing type 97, it has passed extensive field trails in the sweltering, frigid, sand-dust, and rainy
environments. It works properly from -45℃ to 50 ℃. In the sand and dust test, the fans blow up very thin density dust,
and then shooters come in and shoot. You can guess how poor visibility it is; lower than one meter in the entire test fields.