At this point you have to wonder if they truly think this is the best option when between a rock and a hard place. I think we have to accept that the Kurdish nationalists in the region are just aiming for a Kurdish israel at this point and that any Communist tendencies were excised many years ago.
Comrade Kim, press the button.
People on the outside truly don’t understand how restrained the CPC is and has been regarding Japan. If Japan starts shit I don’t think the party can hold Chinese people back, the resentment that has been kept in check by generally decent relations (until recently) will boil over to the extent that if the CPC doesn’t start carpet bombing Japan that they will be overthrown by vengeful nationalists.
For 2., the AFU do a fine job of that themselves: using them as cannon fodder, not helping them when they’re wounded, racism and hazing, and the aforementioned not paying their guys.
Well at least they’re good for helicopters, but they won’t arrive in time for the planned invasion at this point anyways.
Tu-95 gang extremely vindicated
This is already the case in China where the semi rural areas are filled with farmers who own their own patch of land that isn’t super big but still big enough to produce surplus food for sale at local markets. Technically less efficient than the industrial farms but still very useful for people. I used to only buy fruits and vegetables from the street markets and the supermarket was reserved for specialty and imported goods you couldn’t get locally.
PLA honour guard comprised of 6 foot+ dongbei hunks only.
Newegg used to be the GOAT of online PC parts and after the acquisition has been the definition of enshittified. CPC get his ass.
Well the PAP do carry arms, but you won’t see them at all outside of important places or high traffic touristy areas e.g. there are a handful of PAP around Tiananmen Square usually armed with Type-95s in very clearly marked armed police kiosks/vans. The article just feels like wishcasting though, like you’re telling me the society where everyone has a smartphone didn’t manage to get even one reliable recording/photo/anecdote about this out? Maybe they expect us to believe that Chinese internet censors are omnipotent?
I don’t think that’s accurate, the PLAN had 8 Type 055s built in 4 years, and another 8 on the way in the same timespan. The USN in WW2 had over 100 cruisers built.
If we’re talking about potential though, Chinese shipbuilding capacity dwarfs the US, and in a hypothetical war scenario (that somehow doesn’t turn nuclear) with full wartime production the gap widens more. However I expect that given their expense and the fact that they’ll be priority targets that the PLAN will likely use their submarines and Type 054A/B and Type 052Ds to do the heavy lifting, since a loss of a frigate or destroyer isn’t as crippling and they’re much faster and cheaper to build. It’ll be like that image where the US navy has a handful of decades old arleigh burkes and trump battleships vs the latest batch of PLAN destroyers, laid down 2 months ago, commissioned last week, with another 4 dozen on the way.
Too bad they still caved though :(
And each one has almost as many VLS cells as this boondoggle.
Well not all encryption, mostly just public key based algorithms. AES-256 should be good for a while yet even in a post quantum computing world.
Isn’t the whole point of Wagner plausible deniability anyways? Sure everyone knows it’s just Russia but you kind of throw the pretense out the window if VVS get involved.
Good thing it wasn’t an AR platform, I don’t think a wolf could operate the mag release button and pull at the same time.
I wonder what their plan is once there’s no more need for proletarians and we all starve to death. Do the handful of billionaires just hang out in New Zealand surrounded by robobutlers?
Depends more in this case on Iranian intelligence and their willingness to actually use them. Depending on the HQ-9 variant and the FCS/Radars paired with them, they can have the capability to detect and lock stealth aircraft, albeit at a shorter distance and therefore smaller response window than conventional. This means ideally your military intelligence needs to know their potential strike routes and can preposition your systems to intercept. Also, American EW planes have shown to work on older Soviet SAM systems, we’ll see how hardened the more modern Chinese systems are against it. Finally, its a numbers game, did Iran purchase sufficient numbers of systems to tolerate attrition and ensure redundancy if SEAD takes out a few? How much coverage can they provide for important sites and air corridors? And who’s to say if they won’t just strike a deal with the US like before where they do some face saving strikes back and forth with no real damage and leave the SAMs out of the equation.
No one wants to be the first to stick their neck out and so the policy of appeasement continues. I wonder what the line will be, if there even is one.
Looking at the composition and equipment of the Lebanese military, its not like they can really put up much of a fight, they’ve been purposely kept weak and without advanced weapons systems.