production but has been in service with PLA special forces. Design was finalized in 1987. Type 87-1: Prototype assault rifle used to develop and test 5.8×42mm DBP87 cartridge. Type 81 Tactical: Tactical variant used by the PAP with picatinny rails. CS/LR14: 7.62×51mm battle rifle. Newest tactical upgrade with modifications, such as tactical rails, foregrip, additional mountings, etc. NAR-10: Tactical variant made for export. NR-81S: semi-automatic made primarily for the European and Canadian markets. Type 81A: Upgraded variant with new stock and Picatinny rails shown at the 2018 Zhuhai Airshow. Type 81 SR: semi-automatic only sold in Canada to date, with heavy profile, long barrel, SVD-style stock, and lighter pull trigger. Foreign variants BD-08 And BD-15: The BD-08 assault rifle, and BD-15 light machine gun have been made under licence by the Bangladesh Ordnance Factories since 2008. BOF produce more than 10,000 BD-08 rifles per year. It has less recoil than the standard Type 81, and is the standard service rifle of the Bangladesh Army. Kachin Independence Army produced Type 81 variants dubbed the M23, comes with updated polymer furniture with a Sun Motif. Not much is known about their manufacturing details due to their clandestine origins. Reported to sometimes suffer from reliability problems. Kachin K09: Comes with black/plum polymer furniture. Kachin K010: Comes with green polymer furniture. Kachin K011: Dedicated indigenous 45mm rifle grenade launcher variant. Type 81s made by the United Wa State Army. Users : Made under license by the Bangladesh Ordnance Factories as BD-08 Assault Rifle and BD-15 LMG : The Type 81 is still used by B-class units. : Used by the Guinean Army and Navy : Used by Iraqi Police. - Niger Armed Forces also use Type 81 machine guns. : Produced under license by the Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria : Equipped with Type 81s since 2014. Non-state actors Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Kachin Independence Army Lord's Resistance Army Tamil Tigers United Wa State Army United Liberation Front of Assam: Misidentified at time as the AK 81. United National Liberation Front References External links News report on BD-08 Assault Rifle 7.62×39mm assault rifles Light machine guns Short stroke piston firearms Rifles of the Cold War Infantry weapons of the Cold War Cold War weapons of China Weapons and ammunition introduced in 1983 Assault rifles of the People's Republic of China Norinco