Chinese SWAT tend to have more tacticool gears. Chinese SF gears looks more mundane.
Infantry Combat Equipment (non-firearm): Vests, Body Armor, NVGs, etc.
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Local police, while they do have a catalogue authorized by the Central Government, their funding is reflected by the local economic situation. And being LEO, they have certain leeway in obtaining imported kits and hardware (but I think that "loophole" has since been plugged), which led to advent of domestic analogues as the old mantra "demand and supply" goes.
PAP's ultimately answered to the CMC, but due to the LEO nature in their job description profile, they do sport imported gear (if not outright served as tester of such for the whole establishment).
one of them is literally wearing his headset upside down...FAST-style Type-19 helmets with noise-cancelling muffs (worn by Chinese Marines).
I also have to wonder whats the point of these picatinny bits on the helmet? Are there any adapters to use them with the headsets?
Looks more like an issue of not reattaching the headset components in the correct orientation when they make fitment adjustments. Easy enough error to do with the M31N Mk.3 headsets hook/loop system so I'd say the fault lies with the NCOIC/OIC for not making proper corrections to their chalk before loading. As for the rail on the helmet mount I don't think it was envisioned supporting a headset adapter (IHPS has a similar shortfall not accounting for Gentex aftermark kits) and is just there for a respective helmet light.
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If anything, the rollout of noise-cancelling headset is a recent thing (a couple of years back I've read an article from the PLA Daily, talked about someone within a weapon crew brought himself one of those noise-cancelling headset, which he ended up missing a lot of verbal cues in the dins of battle...as such, very likely the PLA has yet made enough adaptation to their operation protocols to take into account of such new gears), or training has yet adapted to them, or hardware integration problem, as in helmet's interior was not designed for headset?
Panamanian law enforcement in full second hand / retired PLA 2010s gear (Type-15 flak + QGF-11 helmet) during violent clashes with protestors today
It's really interesting how ever since the Type-07 series of infantry gear got replaced by newer Type-21s, they started popping up in the most random places worldwide. First in Southeast Asia (Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia etc.), then within elite units in Central Asia, MENA, South America, and now even in Central America (America's backyard), which demonstrates both the sheer scale in which such equipment were produced and just how the PLA gets rid of its surplus shit
It's really interesting how ever since the Type-07 series of infantry gear got replaced by newer Type-21s, they started popping up in the most random places worldwide. First in Southeast Asia (Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia etc.), then within elite units in Central Asia, MENA, South America, and now even in Central America (America's backyard), which demonstrates both the sheer scale in which such equipment were produced and just how the PLA gets rid of its surplus shit
There is going to be side effects of MSM using these as example of "PLA brutally put down protesters".