Wearing vests backwards, overall improper usage of weaponry, etc.
QBZ-191 service rifle family
- Thread starter Blitzo
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For every one of those, 90% of everyone else is doing it correctly, but you people love amplifying any mistakes made by the minority onto the whole branch. This also applies to every time the PLA does something experimental or new; some of you people act as if it were standard practice.
Even worse, somehow you found a way to complain about giving troops suppressors with that snide side comment. I don't think the PLAGF are the ridiculous ones here.
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That logic only applies Recon or Special Operations where stealth matters. In an assault it dosen't make any sense aswell as for patrols where detection matters. Plus I can imagine the logistical and maintance nightmare.
PeoplesPoster
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no, this has absolutely been proved out in Ukraine, both sides are throwing as many suppressors on as possible to try to reduce the units signatures. The US is sending millions of suppressors to Ukraine for just this purpose.
Ok, coming from someone who larps and collect milgear, obtaining PLA stuff is kinda average, if you know who to talk to and have the means to get it out of China its very easy because low level corruptions like that just exists. Just like you can with US and Russian stuff (although US and Russia are kinda messy, ITAR with the US and Russia with Ukraine, there was a brief moment in time where the war got so desperate they were confiscating anything camo-related. That's how stupid it got)
Coming from personal experience, I was offered the Digital NODs and the new NVD sight from people in the PLA. Army666 on ebay famously was a former logistics officer and still had contact and were selling a lot of random junks from the PLA.
You are thinking of movies. Suppressors do not transform soldiers’ rifles into suppressed pistols like you see in John Wick movies (their crap made me cringe). They reduce the sound signature enough to allow the user to communicate with others and to prevent the enemy from rapidly pinpointing their location. You need specialized ammo and a suppressor to achieve what you are thinking of at minimum.
No? Suppressors hardly add that much wear and cost to a kit but it's astronomically better when it comes to reducing a soldier's signature, every modern military with decent funding should be handing out as many Suppressors as possible, especially since the VQX191 is already a flow through design, I don't get how is it even possible to frame handing out suppressors as anything but a straight improvement. It's really fucking bizarre how the Ukraine conflict demonstrated this for years and somehow people still need this explained to them.
Suppressors are almost a necessity shooting indoors where barrels are next to each other's ears.
Just double up on ear protection, earplugs + earmuffs. Great for reducing concussion from rifles with shorter barrels though.