New members introduce yourselves!!

crazyinsane105 said:

Nice to meet all the new people here. My name is crazyinsane105 and I am a moderator. I am about 19 years old and I was born and raised in Chicago, USA. I am currently studying at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and my major is mechanical engineering (but I will be switching to eletrical engineering).

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Blackstone said:

So you were about 10-years old when you first signed up for this forum? What prompted a 10-year old to get into China and international defense discussions? I was shooting marbles with my buddies at age 10...

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solarz said:

Dude, that post was from 2005.

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cheer up china said:

every one can ask questions. l live in shanghai .My English is not very good

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POKL said:

How rude! How crude! I have all but forgotten my manners! How could I have ever started posting without introducing myself first!?

There is a saying better late than never and going by this proverb I shall hereby make up for this deficiency.

I am from the land of sausage, Mi 2 helicopters, vodka, An 2 biplanes, potatoes and Polnocny class LSMs – yes, all of you guessed right: Poland.

My primary – though not exclusive – interest is with combat & operational use of weapons and equipment in broadly speaking current (modern) conflicts by which I mean post World War II. I beg to opine that the combat use of Chinese weapons & equipment by the armed forces of the PRC as well as foreign users is very much underreported and that is what in principle made me join this forum.

I am not new to internet activity, post and write also elsewhere and have already a modest number of internet publications. Not wanting to brag about it or advertise anything but if someone is interested in modern aerial warfare checking out the Air Combat Information Group would be a good start.

I also make no secret of the fact that hogging info is pointless so what I learn here I intend to share with others. But rest assured I am not making that for profit for I do not get any material gain from this.

Last but not least I hope that beside getting info from others I can also make worthy contributions for the benefit of this forum and its members. I am sure the end result will be both productive and entertaining.

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Tako said:

Hi !! I am Tako from Himachal Pradesh, Northern India.

I am quite interested in naval platforms so I joined this forum, though I have visiting this fora since 2 years.

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Tako said:

My native place is full of Tibetian people and I don't really have a good opinion about Chinese people.

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vesicles said:

Welcome!



Hmmm... You can have a bad opinion on individual persons, but you will run into problems when you start to have bias on a whole group of people without taking the consideration that each group, be it Chinese, Indian or Americans, contains a wide variety of good and bad individuals.

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Air Force Brat said:

Yes, vesicles is right tako, this is the China defense forum, and as a newbie, it would become you to be sweet and polite, but let me say there are many, many, very fine Chinese Gentlemen here, whom I love and call brother, its always wise to allow someones honorable character show you the truth, and there is no one more kind and honorable than my brother vesicles, we are men first, where we where born, we have no control over, but I have come to love and respect the Chinese people, and understand who they are through these kind and gracious gentlemen. but welcome in any regard and please give us a chance to show you who we are and change your mind. brat

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