What were the typical weapons for Chinese infantry in the Korean

certainly wikipedia has an article

Rifles, SMGs,machine guns, and mortars mostly. The PLA tended not to use what little armour and heavy artillery in battle (especially in the civil war) because if the lost it they wouldn't have any left.
That was literally their thinking, it did work out for them though.

>>34740444
Mostly Soviet guns and tanks. They were actually pretty state of the art for that time period.

>>34740452
surprisingly no

What they could steal from the dead bodies of American soldiers.

>>34740444
People... Lots and lots of people>>34740452

>>34740508
T34s were not state of the art in the 50s.

Chink troops in Korea had a mess of equipment. They weren't equipped with their latest stuff from the Soviets (save air force) as they were formed so ad hoc and the best PLA equipped units were being massed for a possible invasion of Taiwan. Most of their stuff was weapons the Soviets captured from the Japanese in Manchuria and handed over to the PLA and Western stuff captured from the KMT.

Your average People's Volunteer Army force would have
>Handguns: TT-33, C96, FN M1900 clones
>SMG's: PPSh/PPS (the most common weapon period), Thompson, M3
>Rifles: Mosin-Nagant, SKS (not very common), Arisaka Type 38/99 (this was the most common), SVT-40, Type 24 (KMT Mauser), M1903 Springfield, BAR
>Machine Guns: DP (most common), RPD, Bren, SG-43, DShK, M1910 Maxim, Type 96, Type 92
>AT Weapons: Bazooka & PTRD/PTRS, but most had Soviet AT grenades

plus mortars & flamethrowers

>>34740444
a mix of Russian, Japanese, American, and german equipment, the majority of which was Russian

>>34740542
they had at least 1 IS-2 in korea

>>34740706
took a lot of spawn points i guess

>>34740706
Which wouldn't have had an affect. It be like giving the Republic of Venice a SM.79 bomber. Literally would not affect a war materially

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>>34740486
? they had artillery. Tanks played (relatively) little role due to the terrain but even the norks had them.
>>34740542
Neither were shermans so it's fine.
>>34740645
Important to note that AT weapons were (purportedly) mostly just...satchel charges for the territorial exchange swaths of the war. There were reports on both sides regarding this.
Also of note is that nine times out of ten, the PVA used the lighter weapon out of all available options, because notrucks.
Soviet weapon assistance eventually did result in SKS being deployed, but the first instance of AKs being used by the PLA would be in the chinese-indian war in 1962 where a chinese squad suppressed an entire indian battalion.

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>>34740444
They did have plenty of captured tanks and artillery from the japs.

Also, while some units used captured arisakas and mosin nagant, Gewehr 88 was still the standard issue rifle of the time and is more than adequate for your average zerg rushing chinese "volunteers"

>>34740881
>using jap tanks against UN command
>probably the only tank in the world of 1950 that could actually be knocked out by strafing runs
Fairly sure any chinese commander worth his salt decided fairly early on that they'd rather carry two day's worth of food for the squad over a week's worth of fuel for a tank.