I hate to be the one to say it, but is anyone shocked the Jews didn’t spend the money to be prepared?
They did where it counts
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I hate to be the one to say it, but is anyone shocked the Jews didn’t spend the money to be prepared?
I hate to be the one to say it, but is anyone shocked the Jews didn’t spend the money to be prepared?
I hate to be the one to say it, but is anyone shocked the Jews didn’t spend the money to be prepared?
This is a possibility.I guess they have never mobilized all the reserves at once in recent times.
This...
The last major conventional war fought by the PLA was the Sino-Vietnamese War of 1978-1981. And the PLA got bled very badly. The leadership at first thought that it would be a repeat of the 1962 war against India. Slap, dash, all units back home within a week. In Shanghai and other major cities, massive posters and roll murals went up showing paintings of victorious PLA troops garnished with floral wreaths coming back from the battlefield, their pristine new rifles and heavy equipment gleaming in the sunlight, trucks, tanks, MRLS launchers also wreathed in flowers. Parents of young recruits were informed by personal telephone calls from regiment and brigade commanders that their sons will return unharmed in a week once the "Viets were thoroughly vanquished".
The beginning of the actual ground force advance across the Guangxi border into Vietnam was compounded by disaster after disaster. First, the newer Type-56 rifles that were supposed to be already at the staging areas for the troops that were to spearhead the advance did not get there in time. The advance units had to open the local Peoples' Defense Militia arsenals which were still filled with World War II weapons and most of the initial assault forces received old Japanese WWII Type 38 Arisaka bolt action rifles and roughly 30 cartridges per man. While the leadership in Beijing was engaged in heated fights with the logistics commanders about why the standard issue Type-56 assault rifles had not reached the front yet, the assault force already in Vietnam got a full taste of the same ruthless guerrilla warfare that the Viets had inflicted on the Americans just 6 years earlier. And these battle hardened Vietnamese fighters practically bled the first PLA assault units dry. Worse was that those Arisaka rifles issued to the advance line troops still had cumbersome dust covers on their bolts, and as the PLA troops struggled to chamber cartridges and shoot in the storm of M-16 and AK-47 fire that the Viets were raining upon them, these dust covers made a distinct racket when the bolts were being operated. Vietnamese snipers and RPG men simply identified where the sound was coming from through the dense jungle growth, and fired straight through the leaves at the source of the sound, with lethal precision. On top of the chaos already taking place, the PLAAF bomber squadrons tasked with taking out Viet positions from the air got mixed coordinates and some of their bombs struck their own lines, adding to the rapidly mounting casualties.
By the end of the first week, most of the initial assault troops did make it back home, in bodybags. The PLA suffered 5,000 to 10,000 casualties in the first month of the war alone. The main armored columns and logistics convoys finally arrived at the front at the end of Week 2, and with tanks and MRLS systems in full deployment, the odds for the PLA started improving, but the Vietnamese army had also dug in along the route that the incursion was to travel, and an incredibly bloody stalemate marked the rest of the year of active fighting. The war did not officially end until 1981 when the PLA returned most of their holdings in north Vietnam back to it's owners after the signing of almost a year of vague terms. The PLA suffered up to 20,000 casualties. The numbers were greatly reduced by the PRC official propaganda channels and for a while, people were not even allowed to talk about the war. Soldiers returning home were instructed to not share any details of their experience with anyone. Both my aunt in Shanghai and my mother living in the same luongtang (apartment block street) received official PRC national seal stamped letters from Beijing informing them that all mail domestic as well as going abroad would be read by military intelligence, every piece of mail, and if any mention were made of the war or to discuss the politics behind the war, they will be subject to a very heavy fine and imprisonment up to 2 years. Everybody received these letters periodically for the next 5 years.
China is a paper tiger, it's rife with corruption at every level. If China entered a war, and all of those only sons start coming back in body bags, Xi is gonna be politically fucked.
Can't wait as well to see those J20 engines seaze up from cheep parts. Some of Jane's analyst's have not had favorable things to report on Chinese hardware.
It's all moot however if they are willing to deploy a nuke out of fear we would resort to that first.
Keep in mind, a political leader losing power and the military losing power is different.The other guys not so much, and if they fear loss that would remove them from power, yea the red button could very easy be pressed.
I think I can tame this and correct her course. I’ll take one for the team.
I love that one.
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This is why Feng Feng made no sense - there was nothing there attractive. At all.
One hell of a blow job ?This is why Feng Feng made no sense - there was nothing there attractive. At all.
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Could be useful in dealing with the tunnels in Gaza.Just a wag from me, you military guys jump in here, I would look fir the use of thermobaric weapons systems before you would see a nuke fly.
This would not apply to Israel.
You had me until you got to the type 38, it falls apart there. You quote some quite famous internet myths around the "dust cover" that are just flat wrong.
Before I get rolling I will admit it had been a day or two between the end of WWII and the late 70's. So who knows how the weapons got stored. We can make a good guess however, as the USSR and the chicoms are buddy buddy at the time we could assume the same storage methods.
Lets get started.
The dust cover worked quite well, and it did not rattle. They are SN# matched to the bolt and the bolt matched to the rifle. Where the majority of this "loose" myth comes from is after the war when GI's picked a rifle to send home out of a pile of thousands, then picked a bolt out of another pile of thousands, and IF they wanted a dust cover there is yet another pile. The mix matched bits are going to be sloppy. However even the mix matched examples had zero effect on loading.
Type 38 was a fairly dead rifle by the time of the end of WWII, the type 99 was what was being moved to. The 6.5 Jap just did not have the punch required for jungle fighting. It also was not the standard caliber across the heavy MG's. Some of the light MG's used the 6.5 and some even used the rounds still in the stripper clips, actually kinda cool. But they learned fairly early on that the 6.5 was not going to cut it. Italy learned the same thing around 6.5 but did not have the capacity to move everything over to their 30, so it stuck. The 7.7 Jap was on ball park with both the 303 and 3006.
As china was a pretty hot area they did get "new" weapons like the 99, the back water areas like Korea and Vietnam got the 6.5. All of those areas are in the same ballpark so I guess some deals could be made, who knows perhaps the next cache to hit the surplus community will be from the far east and not Africa like with Royal Tiger and their last batch of....stuff I guess I will say.
I should post up some photos of my 99, it is complete with the AA sights, mono pod (I have a funny story around that and a CMP match) dust cover (not matching) and intact mum. It really is a nice rifle, I would put it on par with something like a 1903 or british enfield. Kinda long however, and the bayonet is even longer...I have some photos floating around somewhere.
But if you skip all that babble, your comments on the Japanese rifles are off base.
That is disgusting. Well played sir.
You have some excellent points there. And no I certainly did not skip any of it. I literally live and breathe historical weapons tech discussions.
Even with the dust cover issue aside though, bolt action rifles of the 1890s-1940s are still noisy to a degree. The different models produce distinct sounds when being operated that trained observers can tell what types of rifles are being used. And when you are using bolt actions like the PLA was using in the early phase of Vietnam facing off against an entire enemy army that is pretty much a special operations force having been hardened in 10 years of guerrilla warfare less than 6 years prior, that is absolutely bad news, add in to the fact that much of the Viets are using M16s and AKs.
The 'Type-38' or san ba si, is a general term in China that is used to describe all variants of Japanese infantry rifles as at one point, the country had been flooded with such a vast quantity of them that farmers carrying rice to markets were using them as shoulder poles for load balancing up to four 30lb sacks trekking on foot for miles. The 99, or jiou jiou si, referred to the squad light machine gun, a vast quantity which are also present, some in national storage, and a much larger number in civilian hands and never turned in. There are still Type 38s, 99s, both rifles and LMGs, and 44s stored in arsenals all over the country at this moment as they are constantly being used for movie and epic TV series production projects.
Like you said in another post, logistics failures are a common problem in modern armies outside of the western sphere and logistics is precisely what fucked up the PLA so horrifically in the 1978-81 Sino-Viet War. An entire cadre of senior PLA officers were virtually wiped out by Beijing central leadership in the wake of the war. Some serving excruciating prison sentences, others banished far out to the penal colonies in Xinjiang and Tibet, put to work on grueling railroad and road construction projects high in the mountains. And others stripped of all their honors and their names disgraced. If they had been featured in patriotic murals, their individual depictions were powerwashed out of these pictures. Even to this day, online discussions of the Sino-Viet War is still considered a sensitive topic because it exposed the PRC military infrastructure's woeful lack of preparations and organizing for a large scale peer war and on sites like the Sino Defence Forum and it's sister board the Chinese Military Forum, threads started about the war gets locked very quickly by moderators.
On a side note, the regional politics of the area at the time of the war are also far more complicated. The war itself stemmed from a devastating and fateful decision that Mao Zedong had made in 1974, when he was still Chairman despite suffering from advanced dementia, a decision that will forever stain the reputation of the PRC. During that time, the murderous Khmer Rouge regime of Pol Pot in Cambodia had exploded into power and the PRC made the fateful choice to side with the Khmer Rouge and provide them with materiel aid. Mao Zedong went even as far as to try to shame his contemporary and ally Vo Nguyen Giap of Vietnam for not supporting the Khmer Rouge and called him a 'reactionary'. And you can imagine how pissed Giap got when that happened. For all their claims of being the "first and foremost leader of military intelligence", the PRC should have, and would have known of the Khmer Rouge's incredible bloody purge of it's civilian population shortly after Pol Pot's forces seized the Cambodian capital, but they continued to double down and provide aid to the Khmer Rouge. In 1975, the Vietnamese army invaded Cambodia and toppled the Khmer Rouge regime, to the further dismay of PRC officials who had military and industrial investments in Cambodia already underway. The USSR and China had never been on friendly terms before and the Khmer Rouge saga further drove the wedge between Chinese and Russian diplomacy. Chinese ultranationalists refer to Russians as laomaozhi, or "perpetually drunken ape-men", and to this day, they still argue that China should re-fulfill it's Qing Dynasty era manifest destiny to colonize all of Siberia, which they did partially during the reign of the Emperors Kangxi and Qianlong. A series of lightning wars also broke out between the USSR and the PRC in the 1950s over a chain of disputed islands, leading to hundreds of casualties on both sides. So naturally, when Vietnam's Vo Nguyen Giap openly declared China as it's main opponent in 1975 in the wake of the Khmer Rouge disaster, the USSR decisively sided with the Vietnamese. And in 1976 when Deng Xiaoping replaced the deceased Mao Zedong as chairman and began to institute the economic reforms that led China out of the collectivist period and into the modern capitalist era, Leonid Brezhnev immediately seized the chance to label the PRC as the 'newest reactionary enemy and threat to the Comintern network' and provided large quantities of military aid to Vietnam, knowing that a shooting war between the two would be inevitable.
I remember reading about those tests. But I have also read that there are some Arisakas that were parade guns that were not suitable for use but had made it into the market. Dunno about how many or if any have failed. Maybe someone here can add some better information that I have - or correct my error.just an aside on the arisaka. back in 60s or so most military actions were tested to destruction. the arisaka was shown to be the strongest of all. as i remember the story,a case was filled with red dot,a bullet placed and jammed into the lands,tied to a tree and set off with a long cord. it bulged but didn't rupture.
I remember reading about those tests. But I have also read that there are some Arisakas that were parade guns that were not suitable for use but had made it into the market. Dunno about how many or if any have failed. Maybe someone here can add some better information that I have - or correct my error.
WOW, I had never read that before. Thank you for posting it.There’s a reason the Second Amendment was second.
We are fools if we ignore the lessons of them past.
See below.
The Gods of the Copybook Headings
- Rudyard Kipling
AS I PASS through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.
We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn
That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn:
But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind,
So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind.
We moved as the Spirit listed. They never altered their pace,
Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Market Place,
But they always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come
That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome.
With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch,
They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch;
They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings;
So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things.
When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."
On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "The Wages of Sin is Death."
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."
Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.
As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
So shaping operations and R&S for the IDF and maybe MILDEC for Hamas?The party is postponed while Israel gets its air defense upgraded but make no mistake the dominos are still falling. Use the respite to get whatever done you need to.
So all the Isis states converge on Israel, wipes the Jews off the map, and then Russia, China and North Korea is left to benefit in their dealings with Iran. To include Russia helping with Irans nuclear weapons development.Idea: all non mid east countries stay the f out and let the mid east countries kill each other off.
So all the Isis states converge on Israel, wipes the Jews off the map, and then Russia, China and North Korea is left to benefit in their dealings with Iran. To include Russia helping with Irans nuclear weapons development.
A stage setting into a 3rd world war. America is always safer when our enemies are weaker…usually that is a sound foreign policy. But what do I know. I’m just a dude on the internet.
And they didn't even beak any manicured nails...
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"I could hear them on the radio, including their commander, Or Ben-Yehuda, operating at the highest level.
wouldn't shock me. a liar and crook.
I think you’re right. Still begs to question who will join in on the nuclear warfare and how will US direct opposition expand global reach.My guess is that having 90 or so nuclear weapons on-hand, the entire middle east wiping Israel off the map results in a vastly different looking middle east once the glass cools. I doubt the government in Israel would allow themselves to be completely erased without using any of them.
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Gen z taking the reinshate to say it but that will prob have to be tried here. army/navy/MC can't meet personnel needs even with the new dropped standards. i don't really see why not if requirements are not made double standard like they are now. might keep the neocons less ready to start wars of empire. the russians did use women in combat roles in WW2; air crew,snipers,tank crew. per my reading of the history they were judged as effective. jews used them in the 1st war,not after,i think. the draft issue will come up again as the volunteer force is showing problems. if it were to be restarted,women should absolutely be subject under whatever conditions prevail. and NO deferments like in the 60s. do i want my daughters and gr.grands drafted to war? fuck no! but i don't want my grand and gr.grand sons sent to die for the elites either. maybe i am not enough of a patriot.
Why was that Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Retard even PART of the Israeli school curriculum?i guess the libs over there were brainwashing kids too.
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I think a big ones on the way. Probably even gonna involve drafting the likes of me.. and yalls sons/offspring. World war end times shit bro... interesting times ahead no doubt.
There may still be some square cuts that ain’t all inked up. Just saying! But great post!And you saw that over the weekend the Idiots in the WH doxxed a Delta team in Israel. For some unknown reason, they had a grip and grin with President Veg-o-matic. I guess he wanted to have an ice cream with them.
Then the WH instagrams their faces, tats, etc. out to 400,000 people... then deletes the post. After it's gone viral. And everyone has facial recognition, etc. on one of our teams over there.
What sucks is that their careers in Delta are probably done. Their ability to work incognito is gone. Maybe they can be training cadre or something. But the WH and Xiden in their stupidity exposed them for a photo op with the potato.
Sirhr
PS... It's another reason why folks in (or thinking about) SoF career tracks should avoid getting themselves covered in ink. It's as good as facial recognition. And lots of places 'after' SoF won't touch you if you are covered in ink and/or have your DD214 written all over you. Stealth. Fly under the radar. Be the grey man. Un noticed. Average. Ordinary. The SoF look is all great while in SoF and door-kicking. But it can be career limiting when you age out or hit your 20... Or are deploying as a training team in some indigenous area and need to blend... which is the roots of Army SF. Think before you ink!
ok, but how do you really feel about her?Why was that Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Retard even PART of the Israeli school curriculum?
Why is that little publicity hound with Vodka-induced Downs part of OUR school curriculum?
She is a semi-autistic little poster child for Commie parents who wanted their defective little sperm demon to be famous.
She and her Green Socialist propaganda should NEVER have been on any school curricula.
Sirhr
PS. How Dare I?
ok, but how do you really feel about her?![]()
LOL.. because I like the show Game of Thrones? That shows fckn awesome dude.How old are you?
No, I was just curious cause of your draft comment! Wow! You are a youngin! I like GOT but I still haven’t seen it all the way through yet.LOL.. because I like the show Game of Thrones? That shows fckn awesome dude.
27 FWIW.. old enough to be held accountable for tard shit, not too old to still smash the college bitches.
Honestly I wouldn't mind being drafted and seeing the end of the world from the front lines. Theres worse ways to go.No, I was just curious cause of your draft comment! Wow! You are a youngin! I like GOT but I still haven’t seen it all the way through yet.