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1. mullvad (shlomo@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Mar-2023 06:43:03 JST mullvad
   >Xi Jinping has reportedly told Vladimir Putin that China is willing to supply Russia with access to its vast weapons arsenal, after the politburo of the CPC met to discuss recent moves by US to contain China, according to US intelligence.
   
   >The US claims that China is ready to provide Russia with drones, ammunition, artillery and small arms, as well as parts for Russia's planes and missile systems.
   
   >China's military still has vast reserves of Soviet-era equipment, including enough small arms to outfit an army of up to 37 million men. These were stockpiled in the Maoist era, under the Maoist doctrine of "more men, more power," which led China to believe that a vast army was the best deterrent against attack.
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   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Mar-2023 06:44:01 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @Shlomo Gotta say chink small arms are…..spotty, if they’re the ones I’m thinking of. Stuff like the type 63 is kinda iffy sometimes, but I think their AK wannabe was okay, just a little hefty. Subguns sucked, though they never made too many to begin with.

     Come to think of it it’s kinda weird how few SKS’s you see out there today, not even in guard duty. It’s almost like…..importers bought all of them up years ago. They were everywhere in the yugo wars

   • synapsid (synapsid@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Mar-2023 06:56:00 JST synapsid

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot @Shlomo Completely anecdotal story: I used to work in a factory, and one of the guys that worked there was a old boomer-age chinaman. Had a slight accent and was basically conservitard politically, always ranted about the CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY, ect. Well in china, when he was young, he worked in a factory that made chinese guns, whatever their knockoff AK-type is. Said the QC there was so strict if someone messed up too often they’d often ‘go missing’, or if it was discovered someone faked results. Basically everyone that worked there cheered when their factory was told to make something else as the government decided to switch or thought their manpower was better doing something else.

     Chinese designs and doctrine are probably pants on head retarded, but when it comes to copying proven designs, they can do it right if properly motivated to do so. But that’s beside the point, Russia needs artillery shells, drones, radios, and MANPADs, not more AKs, they’ve likely got more than plenty of 7.62 stockpiled for 50 years of war.

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   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Mar-2023 06:57:00 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @synapsid @Shlomo That’s why I said the AK one was good. They got the SKS and tried to modify it a bit, and from what I recall it didn’t stay in service very long, enough of them had reliability issues that they got a sour taste and decided to move on.

     They should still have a ton of them, as the vietnamese learned.

   • Eternal_Iratus :nv: :sonnenrad: (eternal_iratus@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Mar-2023 07:07:43 JST Eternal_Iratus :nv: :sonnenrad:

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot @Shlomo They even made decent copies of American small arms such as the M14, Winchester 1897, Remington 870, and the 1911.
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   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Mar-2023 07:08:39 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @Eternal_Iratus @Shlomo Yeah, that all came later when norinco had learned how to build and forge guns. The shitty stuff was the early years, when they were kinda stumbling around trying to get stuff to work w/ some russain help