China says you male get in army

Well they got fucked in ladakh

You female you gonna be med

Not familiar with that one

The issue with China tho is that in a ground war, they can easily over power a fairly advanced country (like say Japan), just like how Russia curb stomped Germany pretty much with inferior equipment and training but vastly more numbers

Granted China will only be able to set foot on Japan if the US navy isnt a threat

And they's be able to hold the island nation for a fairly long period of time till the US rolls up

Younger me in a USMC V-22 Osprey with a VMM-262 pilot

Picture taken in 2014

Nice

I also was in the USMC KC-130J cockpit

Once upon a long as fuck time ago, smol me got to go to an airshow and they had several old planes, including a few soviet aircraft, and i got to mess around with an actual AK47 although the barrel was filled with those plastic tube things

i got to sit in a P-51 Cockpit

Noice

That airshow basically made me into a huge military fan

I also went onboard the USS Freedom LCS in the Singapore Navy Open House 2013

ooh

Met navy bois

The only warship I've ever been on is the USS Midway in San Diego

Lucky

> They have missiles that would take us 10 years to make
@rick harrison
Russia is making cheaper and smaller ships that pack a lot of firepower

E.g. buyan m class corvette

I went on the USS lexington down in corpus about a year or 2 ago, was a very good trip

Yeah I know @Tsar Vladimir Putin we’re still making fucking abrahms tanks

Weigh too much and cost too much and making all of our military budget go towards them.

Cand even put the tank on plane or a ship too much weight

Well the Abrams is still a very good tank, its only real issue is its weight, and you can still put an Abrams on a ship, however not a whole lot of them and you certainly wont be putting them on the Zubar armored vehicle landing craft

several years ago at Pendleton Base in San Diego, They let us mess around in some old tanks they had and apparently they never actually cut the power to some recent additions and me, being the fuckhead i was, wanted to be the "gunner" and the turret still worked, so you know what we, being idiots did, we slapped a fake shell in and moved the turret around

Lol

Atleast the newer Abrams tanks have lasers

Like that’s a huge plus

Pew pew

Not really, the lasers they got arent the pew pew burn things alive kind. They're laser range finders to help with aiming

Disappointing.

And for some, target locate for a guided shell loaded in the cannon

hmm

ooh

Tho guided munitions on the abrams is still very rare

Since its a very expensive weapon system

At Pendleton Base, they had this simulation range where they had stuff set up like M4s with the M203s, although the actual m4s didn't work and we were stuck trying to use the M203s and this was without sights mind you