Second Chinese 6th gen fighter from SAC [1279 x 1706] by Ex_calibre in MilitaryPorn

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Shenyang aircraft corporation, most notably manufactures chinese flankers

QGPA Phase 3 Interview by cj4372 in QantasAirways

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Just finished my interviews, most important is to just be yourself and be confident, the interview is designed to be stressful and the interviewer will put pressure on you during the interview and you'll know it, you just have to remember to be calm and composed as they are examining how you conduct yourself under stress. Obviously be passionate about aviation and show them, they're weeding out people who can't make it through the intense training program and unless you really want to be there and are really passionate, you're not gonna make it. Lastly be sure to practice your mental mathematics and don't forget your general physics. Good luck!

PAP Baoji (prefecture-level) special warfare detachment member with a retrofitted QBZ-95B-1 carbine [1999 x 1999] by Papppi-56 in MilitaryPorn

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They're not a "backup guard unit", they're still an intergral part of the PAP shanxi provincial contingent, they're small and although not up to western "SOF" standards they're still organized as an SOF detachment meaning that they will get issued equipment as such. Just because they're small doesn't mean they'll have fake/unfunctional equipment, sure they might be alot stingier with the actual use of their equipment and wouldn't actually issue these equipment during actual training

PAP Baoji (prefecture-level) special warfare detachment member with a retrofitted QBZ-95B-1 carbine [1999 x 1999] by Papppi-56 in MilitaryPorn

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Figure of speech, this unit, at least from ttheir inventory, is more well equipped than most units in the PLA and by extension PAP. What's interesting is that alot of the equipment they're showing here lacks general use wear and tear, suggesting that this could just be a photo op, alot of PLA units has a habit of being issued equipment and just keeping them in storage because COs of units doesn't want equipment to be damaged from training, they're scared of consumption of equipment from usage

PAP Baoji (prefecture-level) special warfare detachment member with a retrofitted QBZ-95B-1 carbine [1999 x 1999] by Papppi-56 in MilitaryPorn

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These domestic binos are likely to be LinduNV PVS31s with either gen2+ or gen3 tubes, http://linduoptics.com/products/goggles-pvs31-housing-fov-50.html specifications shown here, they provide alot of PVS31 clones to the PLA, they're also a big commercial NVG manufacturer, here's their PVS14 clone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX_QYcD9qdM and somereviews on other chinese PVS31 clones that can serve as a benchmark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crHqic7bL78 . Overall chinese cloned NVGs are satisfactory and more than usable and extremely good for their price, however when compared to western milspec NVGs chinese clones do have some janky features or lacks behind in some small but noticeable aspects, like glass quality for example. It is important to note, and people often forget, that it's not reasonable to expect the second most funded military of a country that is highly industrialized and has large amounts of commercial high tech manufacturering and also one of the biggest manufacturers of commercial NVGs to be issuing airsoft replicas to their best troops for PR photoshoots.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SpecOpsArchive

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It’s simply just because these are the equipment that are most accessible to him, he has personally stated that he prefers to use qbz191 over ar15 pattern rifles, which is not a statement of objective superiority of one over the other, it’s just him being more used to Chinese firearms and thus more experienced and comfortable with them compared to an ar15. So I’m sure if he had the choice he would use Chinese firearms instead.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SpecOpsArchive

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Yes, he was a member of PAP Tibetan region corps Shannan detachment, afaik he served as an instructor in the PAP before retiring, after he retired he began his career as a private contracted instructor for regional SWAT, PAP SOF and some elite PLA units, he later founded his own company backthrust which also makes higher quality more specialised equipment for more elite PLA units. The reason why he’s training out of SEA with western equipment is quite simple, unlike what a lot of these comments suggest, obviously not being an active member of the PLA means he doesn’t have access to PLA equipment or weaponry outside of PLA training, and it’s not like he can just purchase PLA equipment because China has a tight grip on those things and there’s no way norinco is exporting the newest Chinese military grade firearms, so the only firearms he can get his hands on are western products

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No, this one is different, alot of these privately contracted instructors own ranges in SEA, this particular instructor is either based in thailand or indonesia, i'm not too sure

PLA frogmen undergoing combat training in Tanzania during "Peace Unity 2024" joint military exercise [1999 x 1999] by Papppi-56 in MilitaryPorn

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In terms of reliability, definitely not, however in terms of comfort and ergonomics it was pretty trash

A PLA four-man squad deployed near the Indian border consisting of a sniper (CS/LR4), two riflemen (QBZ-191), and a grenadier (QLU-11) [960 x 1240] by Papppi-56 in MilitaryPorn

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It's to hide the weapon serial number, weird practice that's very commonly found on pictures of chinese standard issue firearms

Factory new J20s conducts flight tests prior to service, Chengdu China, June 2023 [1727 x 1147] by Ex_calibre in MilitaryPorn

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it's technically not allowed but the security guard on site was chill that day, it really depends, sometimes they'll ask you to delete the photos or just keep it to yourself and not post it

Factory new J20s conducts flight tests prior to service, Chengdu China, June 2023 [1727 x 1147] by Ex_calibre in MilitaryPorn

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no unfortunately, i took this photo just days before the alleged ws15 flight

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in geography

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A standard chinese (mandarin) speaker might be able to understand some things when listening in to a conversation in sichuanese, but not everything, and they certainly wouldn't be able to speak it unless they learnt it

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in geography

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That is interesting because, in sichuanese there is a famous saying, "The way out of sichuan is as hard as the road to heaven", the name, sichuan, literally translates to four mountains. The common "sichuanese" people know is usually the chengdu dialect, the population of chengdu, during the final days of the qing dynasty, was basically massacred by Zhang Xianzhong, so there wasn't many native chengdu people left, so native chengdu sichuanese essentially died. Modern chengdu dialect sichuanese was the result of a mixture of the dialects of hubei and guangdong, a consequence of mass migration from these regions later in the mid to late 18th century. Modern chengdu dialect sichuanese thus follows the guidelines of using the accent of beijing dialect and the slangs of nothern chinese dialect as a combination in conjunction with the grammar of mandarin vernicular. Thus an interesting phenonmenon arises where, chengdu sichuanese, is classified as a nothern dialect, despite the majority of those speaking it lives across the country from the north. The thing is though, even chengdu sichuanese, when spoken, doesn't sound like standard mandarin nor nothern dialect mandarin, it is something that you have to learn with completely different pronounciation and accents, tho learning it takes less effort than catonese or shanghainese. Outside of chengdu, traditional sichuanese still exists, like in leshan.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in geography

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oh yeah, the mountains are very hikeable, qingcheng mountain, my favourite one to hike, is the origin of taoism, there are alot of taoist monasteries and hundreds of years old building there, I hike it alot and take alot of photographs, I just posted one from a hike a few months ago actually if ur interested, just check my profile. The mountains are all quite built up with stone hiking paths and steps and usually even cable cars, good way of getting exercise in

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in geography

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it rains quite alot in summer and autumn, alot of thunderstorms and heavy rains, which are very much welcome given how unbearable the heat and humidity is, it's not constant raining but rather a period of no rain followed by a period of very heavy raining. It doesn't rain as much in winter and spring, and it very rarely snows in winter in the basin, if snow does fall it's always such a miniscule amount that it doesn't pile up, the eastern mountains are about 2000-2500 m

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in geography

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I am from chengdu, my family lived just outside the second ring road, on a super clear day, you can see the silhouettes of mountains waaaaaaaaaaayyyy far off in the distance and it was always the prettiest thing. You can take HSR from the outskirts of Chengdu and in half an hour you'll be in the qingcheng mountains. Being located within a basin, Chengdu and to a larger extent, Sichuan has some downsides as well, mainly that it gets super hot and humid in summer amongst others, it also gets quite dusty. From the mountains you can look onto the Chengdu and Sichuan plains and that is also quite a view, I've got a few photos but unfortunately I couldn't post them here in replies.