{"id":27916,"date":"2025-10-08T08:01:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T13:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/08\/type-85-chinas-special-forces-smg-regular-and-silenced-versions\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T08:01:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T13:01:52","slug":"type-85-chinas-special-forces-smg-regular-and-silenced-versions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/08\/type-85-chinas-special-forces-smg-regular-and-silenced-versions\/","title":{"rendered":"Type 85: China&#8217;s Special Forces SMG (Regular and Silenced Versions)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/stPCRbxXvqE?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Jason Clower&#8217;s video on the development and use of the Type 85:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/-XB3axKpn98\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/-XB3axKpn98<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Type 85 was a submachine gun developed in the 1980s in China to replace the failure that was the Type 79. It was a very simple design; firing from an open bolt and using a plain blowback action chambered for 7.62x25mm Tokarev. Two different models were made, one regular and one with an integral suppressor. <\/p>\n<p>Type 79 SMG: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/dWIbsLxqBPc\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/dWIbsLxqBPc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The best firearms reference books: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Clower&#8217;s video on the development and use of the Type 85:https:\/\/youtu.be\/-XB3axKpn98 The Type 85 was a submachine gun developed in the 1980s in China to replace the failure that was the Type 79. It was a very simple design; firing from an open bolt and using a plain blowback action chambered for 7.62x25mm Tokarev.&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/08\/type-85-chinas-special-forces-smg-regular-and-silenced-versions\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Type 85: China&#8217;s Special Forces SMG (Regular and Silenced Versions)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":27917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}