PLA's Body Armor

Totoro said:

can someone explain me the logic of US not being able to afford body armor for 200 000 troops which would cost some 200 million one time purchase

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It's not a One time purchase. Once a Plate takes a round It looses It's effectiveness. You have to replace it. and so 200000 becomes a lot more.

Which type of armor are you talking about? You don't need to replace Kevlar, but do need to replace the plates.

I thought we were talking only about kevlar.

200 CDN dollars equals to 1200 chinese yen just for a helmet. for chinese people, that's a lot of money. a steel helmet which can be mass produced in the hundreds now cost them less than 100 yen.

PiSigma said:

200 CDN dollars equals to 1200 chinese yen just for a helmet. for chinese people, that's a lot of money. a steel helmet which can be mass produced in the hundreds now cost them less than 100 yen.

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you forget something, it's the cost over here and there, our helmet are made-in canada, and the it's costy to make that here, i'm sure that with the cheap labour China have, will cost far less. If you check everything in China and Canada, execept for the few european car that cost more in China, everything is more expensive in Canada, for exemple, a MP3 of 512mb, will cost around 150 CND $ down here in Montreal, I doubt it will cost over 500 yuan in China, I don't if there's a minimum wage in Canada but I know that here, in the Province of Quebec, we got one, and it's 7,75$ CDN per hour, so even the cheapest labour is worth at least 7,75$ an hour. I'm pay 56,70$ for 3 hour of working...

there is also minimum wage in china, but i don't think it's hour based, more monthly based. not sure, i could be wrong. anywayz, not everything in china is cheap, usually if it's imported, it is expensive because of taxes. and if it can't be mass produced by unskilled labor, then it's expensive.

china does not have product taxes, pisigma. and china has very skilled workers. just because they can make it cheap doesn't mean it has to be expenzive.

there are huge taxes for imported goods especially luxury goods, why do you think european cars cost so much in china? even after joing WTO, china still have a lot of taxes for certain goods.

i havn't seen alot of european anything in china. its mainly U.s, japanese, or indegedous. most luxery stuff i see in china is homemade.

MIGleader said:

i havn't seen alot of european anything in china. its mainly U.s, japanese, or indegedous. most luxery stuff i see in china is homemade.

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basically, everything imported is more expensive in china. i live in hong kong, and things like food in hong kong is at least 5 times more expensive than china, but things like cars, imported clothes, cell phones, eletronic stuff are all more expensive in china than hong kong.

mainland china imposes tariff on most imported items. that's why everything imported is more expensive in china than let's say canada.

i live in the us, too. if u wanna compare, hong kong has a higher living standard than canada.

it costs 150 bucks usd to fill up a tank of gas in hong kong and 70,000 usd just to get a 325ci bmw. in the us, i could get a clk 55 with that.

dont they have a ton of rolls royces in hk?
btw, hk is not a good example of china for obvious reasons.
most of the electronics and other goods in china are actually homemade, which is how you can buy a dvd player for 30$