I remember seeing a photograph of a portable radio from WWI, drawn by a horse and with two men inside. A personal radio for a soldier need not be larger than a mobile phone and make contact with other soldiers, HQ, or whatever its signals relayed by the other radio's in the field, UAVs, tethered balloons &c. It will all be digital, have minimal power requirements and you won't see if anyone carries it. If they don't have it already they will in a few years time, in the armies of all countries with enough money and perhaps most will be manufactured in China.
(ASK) How well trained are the pla special forces?
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[/Off-topic]hi Blitzo, sorry for the late reply, it's a long weekend here
also sorry for getting carried into defending my opinion, i think we all can stay polite and honest here in SDF, while still having a fun discussion on this topic
on the topic of radios, and scopes, again i use the Marines as examples :
ACOG scopes :
IISR radio :
also sorry for getting carried into defending my opinion, i think we all can stay polite and honest here in SDF, while still having a fun discussion on this topic
on the topic of radios, and scopes, again i use the Marines as examples :
ACOG scopes :
IISR radio :
No need to be sorry. Sometimes communicating through words alone one cannot understand the real meaning one means to convey.
I've acknowledged the fact that scopes are more common place in western/us/nato armies than the PLA (at the moment). But I've still seen no evidence that every single western soldier is equipped with radios, and from pictures of soldiers in iraq and afghanastan we can say radios are certainly not distributed to every soldier. Squad level radios are a different matter, and I believe most PLA fireteams have a single soldier as radio operator as well.
Well if you looked into the links about the IISR, it clearly describes the specs and functions these radios perform, and how it is distributed for each squad member and utilized as intra squad level communication radio through headsets
the squad radio is a different matter, and as you say assigned to the 'radio guy' as a mean of communication and coordination between the squad leader to the platoon leader and above (higher officers and HQ)
Another (albeit more important and also quantifiable) aspect of training, is of course marksmanship, which can be very thorough and under diverse conditions, such as night conditions or poor weather (shooting under rain/bad weather), i'll provide some USMC qualification course requirements :
source :
a more complete reference :
now if only we have some similar informations about PLAN Marines equivalent course and training qualifications
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^ Unfortunatley we have nothing of the sort for PLA training qualifications, although I'm sure there are results from competitions and the like.
And sorry, I read the word intra as inter =_="
But again, radios are clearly not distributed to every grunt in every scenario. But using photos to try and compare the distribution of radios is flawed anyway because we don't know if the pictures we see are a good sample of the actual overall population.
Unless of course, we get someone who was in the PLA and/or US army/marines and can give a low down on the reality and work from there. Actually I'm going to pose the question over at CDF as well. This subject isn't fully relevant to PLA SOF (I think you'd be hard pressed to argue they wouldn't have access to radios), but oh well.
And sorry, I read the word intra as inter =_="
But again, radios are clearly not distributed to every grunt in every scenario. But using photos to try and compare the distribution of radios is flawed anyway because we don't know if the pictures we see are a good sample of the actual overall population.
Unless of course, we get someone who was in the PLA and/or US army/marines and can give a low down on the reality and work from there. Actually I'm going to pose the question over at CDF as well. This subject isn't fully relevant to PLA SOF (I think you'd be hard pressed to argue they wouldn't have access to radios), but oh well.
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