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[[File:Type 86.png|x280px|thumb|right|The Type 86 inside the WMA 301 turret]]
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== Description ==
 
== Description ==
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The Type 86 is a Chinese 7.62mm coaxial machine gun found in many modern day People's Liberation Army vehicles. In game, it performs similarly to the PKT in rate of fire, ballistics, and general performance.
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The '''7.62 mm Type 86''' is a Chinese coaxial machine gun found in many modern day People's Liberation Army vehicles. In-game, it performs similarly to the [[PKT (7.62 mm)|PKT]] in rate of fire, ballistics, and general performance.
  
 
=== Vehicles equipped with this weapon ===
 
=== Vehicles equipped with this weapon ===
 
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== General info ==
 
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== History ==
 
== History ==
The Type 86 is modified version of the 7.62mm Type 80 machine gun for use in armored vehicles. The original Type 80 machine gun design found its origins with the PKM design captured from Vietnamese troops during the Sino-Vietnamese War. Following this, it was studied, copied, and nearly replaced the Type 67 GPMG, before it was decided to keep the Type 67 in use. All the same, it entered production, and service, in 1983, and is used on many modern People's Liberation Army tanks and armored vehicles.
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The Type 86 is modified version of the 7.62 mm Type 80 machine gun for use in armoured vehicles. The original Type 80 machine gun design found its origins with the PKM design captured from Vietnamese troops during the Sino-Vietnamese War. Following this, it was studied, copied, and nearly replaced the Type 67 GPMG, before it was decided to keep the Type 67 in use. All the same, it entered production, and service, in 1983, and is used on many modern People's Liberation Army tanks and armoured vehicles.
  
 
== Media ==
 
== Media ==
''An excellent addition to the article would be a video guide, as well as screenshots from the game and photos.''
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== External links ==
 
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Latest revision as of 12:56, 17 December 2023

This page is about the Chinese machine gun Type 86 (7.62 mm). For other uses, see Type 86 (Disambiguation).
The Type 86 inside the WMA 301 turret

Description

The 7.62 mm Type 86 is a Chinese coaxial machine gun found in many modern day People's Liberation Army vehicles. In-game, it performs similarly to the PKT in rate of fire, ballistics, and general performance.

Vehicles equipped with this weapon

Vehicles equipped with this weapon
Light tanks  PTL02 · QN506 · WMA301 · ZBD86
Medium tanks 
ZTZ88  ZTZ88B
ZTZ96  ZTZ96 · ZTZ96A · ZTZ96A (P)
ZTZ99  ZTZ99-II · ZTZ99-III
Export  MBT2000 · VT-4A1

General info

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Available ammunition

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Comparison with analogues

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Usage in battles

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Pros and cons

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History

The Type 86 is modified version of the 7.62 mm Type 80 machine gun for use in armoured vehicles. The original Type 80 machine gun design found its origins with the PKM design captured from Vietnamese troops during the Sino-Vietnamese War. Following this, it was studied, copied, and nearly replaced the Type 67 GPMG, before it was decided to keep the Type 67 in use. All the same, it entered production, and service, in 1983, and is used on many modern People's Liberation Army tanks and armoured vehicles.

Media

Excellent additions to the article would be video guides, screenshots from the game, and photos.

See also

Links to the articles on the War Thunder Wiki that you think will be useful for the reader, for example:

  • reference to the article about the variant of the cannon/machine gun;
  • references to approximate analogues by other nations and research trees.

External links

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  • topic on the official game forum;
  • other literature.


Tank machine guns
USA 
7.62 mm  M37 · M60D · M73 · M240 · M1919A4
12.7 mm  FN M3P · M2HB · M80 · M85
Germany 
5.56 mm  MG4
7.62 mm  C6 · MG3A1
7.92 mm  MG13 Dreyse · MG34 · MG37(t) · MG42
12.7 mm  S.MG.50
USSR 
7.62 mm  DT · PKMB · PKT · PKTM · RP-46 · SGMT
12.7 mm  DK · DShK · 6P49 · NSVT
14.5 mm  KPVT
Britain 
7.62 mm  Browning MG4 · L3A1 · L8A1 · L8A2 · L37A1 · L37A2 · L94A1
7.7 mm  Vickers
7.92 mm  BESA
12.7 mm  L21A1
Japan 
6.5 mm  Type 91
7.62 mm  Type 74
7.7 mm  Type 97
12.7 mm  Type 60 (B)
China 
5.8 mm  QJT
7.62 mm  Type 55 · Type 59 · Type 86
12.7 mm  QJC88A · Type 54
14.5 mm  QJG02
Italy 
7.62 mm  Beretta MG42/59 · FN MAG 60-40
8 mm  34/40M · Breda Mod. 38
13.2 mm  Breda Model 31
France 
7.5 mm  AAT-52 · MAC 31
7.62 mm  A-A-F1N
8 mm  Hotchkiss Mle 1914
Sweden 
6.5 mm  ksp m/14-29
7.62 mm  ksp 39 C · ksp 58 · ksp 94
8 mm  ksp m/36 · ksp m/39B
12.7 mm  ksp 88