Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "Mechanics and Disassembly of the Norinco QBZ-97 / Type 97 NSR" video.

  1. It seems like the AR a toy designer would have come out with. It's cheap, it's kinda rattling and wobbly, it's functional, but it lacks the ergonomic bits that a weapon designer would have tried to implement (with the result that it's not really user friendly, but not terrible either, since sometimes those research came to unnecessary complex, or even detrimental, solutions).
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  2. It's not even close to be as bad as the L85. The first generation L85 has the only merit of being accurate. For the rest it seems to be made to be the least functional and reliable that's possible, with obvious design flaws (receiver made of too flimsy metal sheets, biodegradable plastic furnitures...), and with a backward ergonomy, so that all the things seem to work in the least predictable way (see for example the auto ejecting magazines when you squeeze the AR to the chest). This instead is a sound design with little care given to the ergonomy, so that it's not as user friendly as it could have been, but not disastrous either. Certanly, this seems to be a weapon of the same generation of the FAMAS, only made 20 years later.
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  3. Thanks.
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