Type 63 Para
| Factions | Weapon | Icon | Classes | Ammo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 VC |
 Type 63 Para |
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 Assault |
20+1 / 80 |
| Damage Base | Headshot × | Chest × | Stomach × | Leg × | Arm × | Bayonet | Rifle Grenades | Reload Speed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Partial | Empty | ||||||||
| 43 | ×2.52 = 108.36 | ×1.2 = 51.6 | ×1.15 = 49.45 | ×0.8 = 34.4 | ×0.75 = 32.25 | NO | NO | 2.966 Seconds | 3.66 Seconds |
| Designation | Weapon Type | Fire Modes | Fire Rate | Bullet Spread ° | Range Modifier | Muzzle Velocity | Projectile weight | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| K63 | Carbine | Auto+Semi | 700 RPM | 7.3° & 1.15° ADS | 0.950 | 735 m/s | 7.9g (121.916 gr) | 3.85 kg (8.48 lbs) |
| Full name | Caliber | Place of Origin | Date | Manufacturer | Barrel Length | Total Length | Weapon Script Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 63式7.62mm自动步枪 | 7.62x39mm | China | 1963 | PRC government arsenals | 20.9 in (531 mm) | 40.7 in (1,033 mm) | weapon_type63 |
Type 63 Para is a Chinese select-fire assault rifle variant chambered for the 7.62×39mm cartridge, featuring a folding buttstock for improved portability. Like the standard Type 63, it combines SKS-style features such as a folding spike bayonet with an AK-style rotating bolt and detachable box magazine. It is best known as a rare folding-stock Type 63 configuration often described as an airborne/paratrooper concept, with limited production compared to the standard rifle.
HISTORY
China developed the Type 63 in the early 1960s to provide a rifle with greater sustained fire capability than the SKS-pattern Type 56 while retaining familiar handling and close-quarters features. The design blended SKS layout elements with a rotating bolt system adapted from AK-pattern rifles, and it entered service in limited numbers as a transitional system before later Chinese rifles filled the role more successfully. Reputable reference material frequently notes that the Type 63’s manufacturing complexity and quality-control issues contributed to it being moved out of primary service and retained mainly for militia and local defense use.
The folding-stock “Para” configuration is described in specialist sources as a Type 63 sample/variant fitted with a folding buttstock intended to make the rifle easier to carry and deploy in roles where compactness mattered. Available published descriptions indicate this folding-stock Type 63 did not see broad mass production, making it considerably less common than the standard fixed-stock rifle. During the Vietnam War era, China exported a wide range of small arms to North Vietnam, and the Type 63 is cited as being among the rifles supplied in comparatively small quantities; a folding-stock Type 63 would have been rarer still within those broader aid deliveries.
Sources
- https://salw-guide.bicc.de/pdf/weapons/102/norinco-type-63.std.en.pdf Norinco Type 63 (SALW Guide PDF) | Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies (BICC)
- https://archive.org/details/smallarmstodayla0000ezel Small Arms Today | Edward C. Ezell (Internet Archive)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba7mDVZYpSM Type 63: China Makes an AK/SKS Hybrid | Forgotten Weapons
- https://pewpewpew.work/china/rifle/1963/63.htm 63式自动步枪（含折叠托样枪说明） | pewpewpew.work
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Type 63 rifles (standard fixed-stock pattern); folding-stock “Para” examples are uncommon.
