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T65 assault rifle is the ROC Army issued a design production and distribution service in 5.56 mm caliber rifle, in 1968 in the then Republic of China Defense Minister Chiang Ching-kuo started under the direction of the development work. T65 rifle designed by the United States AR-18 modeled the same time, coupled with M16 assault rifles from the design concepts with the German HK33 made. At present the Republic of China Army, the Republic of China military police, the ROC Navy, Marine Corps, the Executive Yuan Coast TourPrevention Department, Coast Guard SWAT team has been gradually facelift T91 assault rifle, T65K2 rifles are still second-tier units, such as the army reserve brigade and recruit training center, the ROC Air Force, the Executive Yuan Coast Guard Administration to continue to use.
1970 to 1973, the ROC Army's Joint Logistics 205 Factory Zeng Yi US-made AR-18 as a template create two 5.56 mm rifles, but with the AR-18 different is the fixed-style rifle design. Today both the kind of guns on display in the plant and the Chinese Academy of Sciences 205 Joint Logistics Systems Manufacturing Center (formerly the Joint Logistics Revised armed factory).

Republic of China Army's Joint Logistics 205 manufacturing plants have been a trial-type T64 rifle. Using AR-18 short-stroke gas piston guide and care for timber design, while a majority of the design for the M16 rifle, while also joined the night-time sight and the sight design. AR family have been offering from today with a short-stroke piston drive design, can prove that the correct choice of the original joint logistics personnel.