Performance of Chinese exported weapons in current/recent conflicts

Damingli85 said:

Heh, who would have thought a few days after you wrote that we would have this Xinjiang problem?

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Well, anyone who understands the region would have saw this coming. There has been long standing ethnic tensions between the Han Chinese and the Uyghur people... they unfortunately boil over every now and then. As I stated earlier, there is strong suspicion that the Xinjiang separatists are being supported and trained by Al-Qaeda and Chechen separatists; this support also works in reverse. I've read reports of Chinese weapons of recent manufacture ending up in the hands of Al-Qaeda and Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan. And we are not talking about simple belts of ammo; we are talking about the high tech stuff, such as MANPAD's.

It seems you are implying, that not only do Xinjiang separatists have access to advanced Chinese weapons somehow, but also that they are supplying them to follow jihadists in Afghanistan instead of using them in China to advance their own goals more directly?

That is stretching believability pretty thin.

It seems you are implying, that not only do Xinjiang separatists have access to advanced Chinese weapons somehow, but also that they are supplying them to follow jihadists in Afghanistan instead of using them in China to advance their own goals more directly?

That is stretching believability pretty thin.

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Well, I think he was implying that Chinese weapons make their way into the hands of Islamic extremists, and some of these weapons make their way back to Xinjiang and end up in the hands of the Xinjiang separatists. This may be either through direct supply or indirect, ie weapons that pass through the hands of the Iranians and/or Pakistanis.

There hasn't been any evidence of weapons more advanced then knives and rocks being used in the Xin Jiang riots, and most previous terrorist attacks had used homemade bombs and grenades.

Armed, open insurgency in China will only lead to a massacre by the security forces, who quite frankly, would much rather have such an obvious target that they know how to deal with.

The current stoking of ethnic tensions is far more insidious and dangerous then open revolt because it turns neighbor against neighbor and is too subtle for many western dolts to see it as the terrible crime it is.

Guys, knock off the Xinjiang/Uyghur talk, you are going off topic and heading for a bit for mouth to mouth.
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The PL-5E has a double delta "canard", which seems to be present on your first link.....
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Night fighting? What equipment does the Al-Zarrar have for night fighting? Thermo?

And where did the RPG hit?

What I knoe Iranian is complain the avionics of f-7 the buy. indonesian complain about the AK-2000 they buy for fighting insurgents in Aceh.

Wait, what's an AK-2000?

simonov said:

What I knoe Iranian is complain the avionics of f-7 the buy. indonesian complain about the AK-2000 they buy for fighting insurgents in Aceh.

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I think Iran got the F-7 during the Iraq-Iran war which was F-7B (Correct me if I'm wrong). Well, that's very old version. By that time, electronic technology is very outdated. What about now, some countries have just got the latest F-7s. Any complain?

And I'd like to ask the question Sumdud has just asked too: What's the AK-2000? Some AK rifle? Misspelling?

AK-2000 is term for Norinco copy for AK-74. its exported to Brimob (Police Militia) in Indonesia

simonov said:

AK-2000 is term for Norinco copy for AK-74. its exported to Brimob (Police Militia) in Indonesia

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Actually I believe it is a chinese copy of the AK-101 rifle except that it chamber for 5.56mm NATO rounds.