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Mr T

Senior Member
Most of us Chinese hate sweets lol.

Are you sure you're not a time-traveller from the 1980s stuck in 2020?

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That doesn't even include sugar used in other confectionery.

Back on topic (vaguely), it's obviously a bit of fun rather than an actual project designed to win a war. Some of you guys have no sense of humour.
 

Blitzo

Lieutenant General
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Back on topic (vaguely), it's obviously a bit of fun rather than an actual project designed to win a war. Some of you guys have no sense of humour.

It's more jarring that any effort whether it be civil or military was used on that at all, given the gulf of military capabilities that is just continuing to grow by the year.
But if you're saying it should be interpreted as a juvenile PR exercise or effort at propaganda then I'm sure people here would be accepting of that. Unfortunately it still rings a bit hollow..
 

supersnoop

Major
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The truth is in the future volunteers will be manning the high-end weapons while the 4-monthers will be fed into the meat grinder. Currently the entire Air Force and Navy is almost 100% staffed with volunteers already, that leaves 4-monthers to either the MP (Taiwan's MP's main job during war is to protect senior govt. officials), Marines or Army. Not many go to the MP since they are already staffed with mostly volunteers, so the great majority either goes to the Marines or Army. While most in the Army or Marines are infantry and get trained with your run-of-the-mill infantry weapons (assault rifle, machine gun, rocket launcher, grenade etc.) and infantry tactics (making fortifications, marching, weapons maintenance etc.), some are assigned to various positions, such as tankers, combat engineers, artillery crew, anti-air gun/missile etc.. Of course there are also a small minority who gets assigned to desk jobs as well. One can also become an officer if one takes a test and is qualified (I can be wrong on this one), but most are just infantry anyway. After all you need cannon fodder to defend the beaches, right??

Most of the infantry's job will be similar to this:




Was that a British 25 pounder gun in those Kinmen/Matsu videos?

Why are they using such an absolute relic?

Obviously Air Force and Navy absolutely need to be fully volunteer or nearly so. You could probably get away with conscripts on guns, but they definitely cannot keep pace with the high tech revolution of PLA.

These types of conscripts cannot be counted on to effectively man AD systems (look at Ukraine and Libya at that). Proliferation drone systems, standoff cruise missiles, and Z-19/Z-10 tandem attack strategies are all super relevant in this context.

This is why I am so critical of overpaying for American weapons. It’s basically a political favour (which is necessary to a certain extent). However, if you overpay for HF-2 instead, perhaps you can benefit the local economy and trust in the armed forces.
 

supersnoop

Major
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Are you sure you're not a time-traveller from the 1980s stuck in 2020?

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That doesn't even include sugar used in other confectionery.

Back on topic (vaguely), it's obviously a bit of fun rather than an actual project designed to win a war. Some of you guys have no sense of humour.

Funny that there is news/discussion like this. I actually read some stories about Oreos in China.

Actually it took Mondelez a lot of work to get Oreos going in China, it was considered too sweet.

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Choco pie is a weird choice though. It is Korean, and not that popular.
 

TerraN_EmpirE

Tyrant King
Do they really believe PLA will use their 400 J-7 against them? When they have 1200+ J-20, Flankers and J-10?
The point isn’t to replicate another threat aircraft but to show the pilots how they may have to fight vs an opponent who doesn’t fly identical performance. The paint scheme is simply to allow easy tell that this isn’t a friendly aircraft in DACT.
 

gelgoog

Brigadier
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The point isn’t to replicate another threat aircraft but to show the pilots how they may have to fight vs an opponent who doesn’t fly identical performance. The paint scheme is simply to allow easy tell that this isn’t a friendly aircraft in DACT.

It is still silly. They should be training against F-16s or F-15s. That would imitate the J-10 or Flanker better. They keep doing this stitch as if the enemy will be a MiG-21 or something like that. Even the US suffers from the same problems in aggressor squadrons.
At least in Red Flag they fly against modern aircraft of other nations.
 

weig2000

Captain
Seriously? Arms sales incentivize Taiwan to be aggressors? Yeah, maybe in the 70s when PLAAF and PLAN had next to nothing...

You need to read between the lines, not pick on isolated statements ignoring the context. The author is trying to make some seemingly sensible arguments for a new arm sales policy to Taiwan based on reality. The last paragraph is the key conclusion.

Arm sales to Taiwan are more political statements and psychology boost for Taiwan people. Eventually it might also provide an escape clause for a commitment that will increasingly become a liability rather than a leverage.

And, Taiwan is not an island nation.
 
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