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==Chinese Type | ==Chinese Type 63 Assault Rifle== | ||
Seen slung over the shoulders of Taliban guards at a public execution of adulterers. | Seen slung over the shoulders of Taliban guards at a public execution of adulterers. | ||
[[Image:ChineseType56Carbine.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Chinese Type 56 Carbine aka the Chinese SKS rifle - 7.62x39mm. The Chinese SKS has a stamped receiver and a spike bayonet (aka a "pig sticker") much like one of their AK47 copies - the Type 56 assault rifle. This version, like many imported SKS rifles, have the infamous 'orange cratewood' stocks, probably the lowest quality wood in any mass produced rifle, save for the last ditch Arisaka Type 99 rifles at the end of WW2. Many SKS rifles during the Vietnam War were issued with reddish plastic stocks, because of the incidents of 'wood rot' in the humid SE Asian jungles.]] | [[Image:ChineseType56Carbine.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Chinese Type 56 Carbine aka the Chinese SKS rifle - 7.62x39mm. The Chinese SKS has a stamped receiver and a spike bayonet (aka a "pig sticker") much like one of their AK47 copies - the Type 56 assault rifle. This version, like many imported SKS rifles, have the infamous 'orange cratewood' stocks, probably the lowest quality wood in any mass produced rifle, save for the last ditch Arisaka Type 99 rifles at the end of WW2. Many SKS rifles during the Vietnam War were issued with reddish plastic stocks, because of the incidents of 'wood rot' in the humid SE Asian jungles.]] | ||
Revision as of 00:34, 22 May 2009
The firearms that were seen in the 2007 movie The Kite Runner include the following...
Norinco Type 56 assault rifle
The Taliban, and Pakistani Border guards are seen with the Type 56;A number of Red Army soldiers were also seen armed with Norinco Type 56 rifles (without the folding bayonet attached) during the scenes dealing with the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Since most of the scenes for Kabul and Afghanistan was filmed in Kashghar, China; the production crew didn't have access to genuine Russian-made Kalashnikov rifles and had to use Chinese ones instead.
Type 56-1
A pair of Taliban are seen looking for Amir are armed with Type 56-1s.
Chinese Type 63 Assault Rifle
Seen slung over the shoulders of Taliban guards at a public execution of adulterers.
