PRC/PLA 2015 Victory Parade Thread
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MwRYum
Major
Well the laundry unit will need to work overtime them, at worse. Besides, they've been doing this for the past few months already, and no surprise they've been going through one set of uniform everyday...if anything, I'd expect them to reserve their Sunday's Best for the big day, and it's still in the locker, ironed, and ready.
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
It's not Multicam but close in color way and shares some design characteristics. There have been rumored use of Multicam in the PLA for some time but not much of confirmation, this sure could be the cause of the rumors.
Multicam is a transitional camouflage pattern that is targeted for semi arid environments where you see a mix of greenery and sand which is a fairly large portion of the world including urban areas. This is part of the reason Multicam and similar patterns have moved up in popularity among the worlds military services. With modifications the 7 colors of Multicam have also been applied to a verity of other pattern family's such as Tiger stripe, pixilated, Kryptec, DPM and more.
Multicam does however have a flaw, it works better in arid and desert then woodland and jungle.
I am curious as to what unit is pictured wearing it. Is it Airborne, Marines, PAP, Blue army? And does this indicate a another shift in uniforms is about to take place?
Here in the US the US Army is about to transition to a pattern that is more or less a close cousin of Crye Precision's Multicam, the Scorpion pattern OCP as its main uniform. Along side this the Army at least contemplated for a period creating bookend patterns. These book ends would be specific to the desert and woodland environments yet as aimed would share common characteristics with Multicam allowing the wear to share accessories between the three. The theory was that a soldier in garrison would wear OCP (Multicam or Scorpion) and have there TA50 (packs, plate carrier Hemet and gear) in the same OCP. If they were deployed the first units on the field would wear Multicam but as more and more deployed they would transition to a specific pattern better suited to the territory. Like Woodland for the Philippines or desert for Iraq.
I dont know if this photos have been posted here on SDF, but henri K has posted on forummarine a list with photos of the veichles that will parade in beijing.
It shows a new IRBM TEL that i had never saw before. It says that its the DF-26.
However, it doesnt show some of the latest equipment like that 6-axis TEL for cruise missiles, only a 4-axis TEL. Also it doesnt show any all-terrain 8-axis TEL for ICBM (and we have photos of several of them in the last years). Only the same old road-only TEL.
It shows a new IRBM TEL that i had never saw before. It says that its the DF-26.
However, it doesnt show some of the latest equipment like that 6-axis TEL for cruise missiles, only a 4-axis TEL. Also it doesnt show any all-terrain 8-axis TEL for ICBM (and we have photos of several of them in the last years). Only the same old road-only TEL.
Yes, it likely means they're just not willing to show off the 12x12 TEL and its missiles because it's a system which is either very new in service, or still in development.
The ICBM TEL may either still be under development or they're deliberately being very cautious about showing it off, given how few pictures we've had of it in the last few years generally.
But DF-16, DF-21D, DF-26 are all new additions to the parade that haven't made appearances before.
ABC78
Junior Member
I hoping to see marching formations that represent Chinese WW2 units in their throwback uniforms.
What units would you guys like to see?
I'd like to the Tiger Warriors, Eighth Route Army, 88th Div, 200th Div, New Fourth Army, 386th Brigade. There's probably many more that should be honored but can't name them.
Are any of the Eighth Route Army's divisions still in active service?
What units would you guys like to see?
I'd like to the Tiger Warriors, Eighth Route Army, 88th Div, 200th Div, New Fourth Army, 386th Brigade. There's probably many more that should be honored but can't name them.
Are any of the Eighth Route Army's divisions still in active service?