I'm more surprised that the gun couldn't go full auto.
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I'm more surprised that the gun couldn't go full auto.
Hello.
I don't understand economy much as i ain't in that field, so I wanted to ask, how does China US economic comparison in dollar term works?
China has been using own Labour base for doing manufacturing & now they are manufacturing of their own using local Labour & resources. Minus the import, they have been using their own currency, isn't that right?
And for US , they have printed 5 trillion in 5 months which is 1/4 th of their entire GDP. So how much of it is real?
But they have hypupu mizzile. No?? :O
Well, there is this British legacy of semi-auto weapons.,No, let me rephrase...actually the answer is more complex.
The Indian army still has a legacy as set up by the British as a mercenary force. The object was to have expert marksman ( or as good as possible) to fight lightly armed insurgents. The PLA, Red Army and the US army all grew out of revolutions with mass mobilization of the common people. It was difficult to train that many marksmen so from muzzle loading muskets to rifles the concept was of volley fire. India adopted volley fire under the British when they were still in the muzzle loading era ( Brown Bess muskets and Enfield IP 53 Rifles ) Remarkably when they moved to single shot breech loading ( Martini Henry) and early Lee Metfords they still retained the volley fire principle, when most countries were abandoning it in favor of "fire at will" principle.
Matters didn't change much during World War 1 by which time the Indian Army had started using magazine bolt action rifles ( Lee Enfield Mark 1). By World War 2 the Indian Army converted to the "fire at will" principle but by that time automatic rifles like the Tokarev, Garand M1, and the SturmGewehr were already in use in battles where self loading automatic fire was increasingly the norm. Also the use of sub-machine guns such as the Sten, PPSh, MP38 were in widespread use. The British gave a very limited number of sub-machine guns to the Indian Army and squad combination was three of four Bren gun supported by a platoon equipped with bolt action rifles. The Sino-Indian conflict in 1962 was fought with this infantry composition. In the late 60s early 70s India adopted the FN FAL 7.62 X 51 self loading rifle in the semi-auto configuration when much of the rest of the world had converted to selective fire assault rifles ( M16s, AKMs, G3 ).
In theory the FN FAL could go auto
but it was entirely uncontrollable in that mode.
To fill the gap India made do with hand me down AKMs either captured or purchased from smaller countries ( Romania etc.) with marginal quality, These were very basic weapons with bent metal "stirrup" type frame stocks and iron sights. Still an AKM is better than a FAL for urban COIN work which is what were the priority operations for the IA till recently.,India has only now started acquiring original Russian manufactured AKMs and AK103s.
The INSAS was developed to replace the AKM because it is supposed to be a "system" rifle that can be fitted with night vision, scopes, grenade launchers and with a bi-pod and lsrger 50 round magazine function as an emergency machine gun.
The problem with system rifles is that even though multiple roles can be configured its performance in each role is marginal. The rest of the world has had a different approach for quite sometime. A standard battle rifle with integrated 4x sighting is adopted with a full auto or 3 round burst capability. Specialist roles such as sniping and grenade launching is done by specially trained infantrymen and special weapons. Indian is now converting to this doctrine.
My question to you is how much piss poor Indian supa powa analysis/content did you have to sift through to find this one good analyst
The above contained the remark made by Spokesperson of Chinese Embassy of Nepal pertaining to the land encroachment by China on Nepalese soil, alleged by some Indian Media.
Let's hope this drama truly cools down and simmers away with India tacitly recognising the changed status quo. They'll probably pull some annoying stunts once in a while to "mark their territory" but those will be almost entirely unimportant. Indian bhakts will continue barking at nothing for the foreseeable future. Hopefully no more little fights or skirmishes through winter. Doesn't appear the CCP will change the newly established status quo without some really appealing offers from India based on Indian lack of enthusiasm and excitement over the results of the latest talks. Pretty much bilateral agreement that China is not going to change anything. India unlikely to change attitude towards Kashmir and reconsider article 370. CCP attention almost entirely directed at Taiwan.
India's government and military truly understand they don't stand a fraction of half a chance in an actual shooting war. Not even in their wildest of bhakt fart propelled bollywood dreaming. They've shown zero actual resolve and played up some pathetically pointless "capturing" of uncontested positions on their own side, while actually losing close to 1000 square kilometers north of Pangong lake up to finger 4. This is now pretty much accepted even in bhakt circles despite some still refusing it.
Would have been nice to see a modernised PLA at work against a sizeable paper tiger (more like a paper donkey with motorcycle stuntsmen their most impressive asset) like Indian military but I guess Indian higher ups have a bit more of a clue about PLA capabilities and are not fooling themselve with "bu buh but ... made in Chyyyyyna" group think.
CCP really recognises the military none threat from India and correctly understands the military threat to China is almost entirely from the western Pacific. Publicly showing high terrain military exercises with relatively boring artillery warfare clips but actually moving SAMs to Fujian. Building up PLAAF presence in south Tibet is important for the long term but China knows these sparks won't ignite any real war with India. India is a EM and digital warfare nobody. Taiwan, Japan, USA on the other hand...
Would have been nice to see a modernised PLA at work against a sizeable paper tiger (more like a paper donkey with motorcycle stuntsmen their most impressive asset) like Indian military but I guess Indian higher ups have a bit more of a clue about PLA capabilities and are not fooling themselve with "bu buh but ... made in Chyyyyyna" group think.
CCP really recognises the military none threat from India and correctly understands the military threat to China is almost entirely from the western Pacific. Publicly showing high terrain military exercises with relatively boring artillery warfare clips but actually moving SAMs to Fujian. Building up PLAAF presence in south Tibet is important for the long term but China knows these sparks won't ignite any real war with India. India is a EM and digital warfare nobody. Taiwan, Japan, USA on the other hand...
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