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|fullname = Type 80 General Purpose Machine Gun (Chinese: 80式通用机枪)
|voiceactor = {{voice actor name|Tazawa Riiko}}
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| weaponinfo = The Type 80 is a general-purpose machine gun manufactured by Norinco in China, based on the Soviet PKM. The machine gun was certified for design finalisation in 1980 and entered the PLA service in the mid-1980s, specifically in 1983. The Type 80 was intended as a successor to the Chinese independently developed Type 67, doing well in tests conducted in the Chengdu Military Region before it was dropped and instead, opted to keep the Type 67 GPMG in use. Only a few Type 80s were used in the People's Liberation Army Marine Corps and airborne units, and a modified Type 80, named as Type 86, was then accepted by PLA armor units.<ref name="wiki">[[wikipedia:Type 80 machine gun|Wikipedia entry on Type 80 machine gun]]</ref>
