Some Thai's may have a taste against Chinese equipment. But ofcourse their own military knows what suits best
Chinese Military Exports (Land Systems)
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Some Thai's may have a taste against Chinese equipment. But ofcourse their own military knows what suits best
It’s almost as if the opinions of internet prowling virgins have zero impact on actual military acquisitions. How strange since there are several members of this very forum arguing how bad internet optics can destroy Chinese miltech export prospects.
Thai military continues to use VT-4 heavily despite complaints from Taiwan/Japan sponsored Twitter milsphere “influencers”.
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Siege, can you please stop using such unnecessarily sexualized language?
You're a moderator and a senior member, please write like one and set a good role model.
Sure. I’m just really ticked off at wannabe “experts” who keep on disseminating misinformation on Twitter which inevitably pollutes threads here.
I am as well, but if we want to actually be able to moderate this forum adequately it means we need to set an example for what is encouraged here and what isn't.
I.e.: we don't have the right to be publicly vulgar and pedestrian like that -- we lose the ability to get that satisfaction.
Chad buys AH-4. Time will tell if they acquired it for themselves or will send it as aid for RSF.
Otter has the following revelations about VT-4 performance during the Thai-Cambodian conflict.
1) Neoliberal propagandists are upset that there are no turret bake-off videos so they accentuate the barrel failure.
2) Thai military trusts VT-4 a lot. It has spear headed the most difficult armored assaults against Cambodian positions and although it suffered some casualties (combat related or otherwise), as a whole it has performed satisfactorily. Thailand will continue to acquire more armored vehicles from Norinco as a result.
3) Thai military provided valuable combat experience for the VT-4. Most of the live fire involved mobile firing at the distance of 2KM, not “firing from fixed positions till the barrels blew up” as suggested in internet memes. The VT-4 also stood up to a lot of indirect fire. According to the Thai the tank barrel has been directly hit by Cambodian mortar fire but can continue to shoot normally after being damaged.
4) Mobile firing in jungle environment may have contributed to the barrel explosion since a mixture of dirt and residual powder can clog the barrel. Under intense combat conditions the Thai did not have time to properly clean them. Despite the fact that the issue stems from user error, Norinco will look into how to reduce this sort of mishaps going forward.
China should forbid its weapons being transferred to that genocidal group
Chadian WMA-301 destroyed, possibly after being set on fire.