It's always good to practice the basics: shoot, move, communicate.
However, these guys . . . Well, the footage speaks for itself:
However, these guys . . . Well, the footage speaks for itself:
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WTH? Were they using Lai's enlarged picture as the shooting target?
Are they real soldiers? It seems to me that they were just a group of young people play the paint ball shooting game.
These kids don't even have BFAs screwed into the barrels of their rifles, and they're obviously not running a live fire exercise.
That should more or less tell you everything in terms of just how serious their training is.
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Once again, the negative reputation of Taiwan's journalists is reinforced.
Joking aside, that M1A2T has neither reactive armour nor TUSK kit, not even cope cage which can be implemented locally at low cost. Are they really going to ignore examples from eastern Ukrainian warzones?
I know that's reservist training but as far as photo op goes, that's hardly confidence inspiring.
Since you guys talk about reservists, can anybody help me make sense of how often they train? The mention 5-7 days, or 14 days, or 1-2 days in major exercises (if I didnt butcher the translation), and they can be recalled four times in 8 years after service. Since there is so many options, I am kinda lost in what decides when they/which units train for 5 and when for 14 days.
This isn't a topic I've dug or otherwise ran into, so hopefully someone informed will be able to address your question in detail.
Your Chinese is probably better than mine, so failing that, my recommendation to you is to log onto social media platforms popular in Taiwan, and see what ROC reservists and active duty personnel are saying themselves.
However, what I can tell you is that if that's how their reservists drill, Taiwanese separatism is fucked.
During GWOT, and to this day, US Army Reserve and National Guard units heading to Iraq, Afghanistan and perhaps elsewhere would .
Even then, reserve component formations were generally expected to visibly underperform vis-a-vis their active duty counterparts; and we're talking professional-ish reservists fighting peasants, who were often at best quasi-literate, with access to ISR and CAS assets generally unimaginable outside of the militaries of the US, and at this point, arguably China (TBF the PLA is still behind the DoD in CAS, but they're ahead in artillery and MLRS, never mind the PLARF). Granted, there was the occasional professional al-Qaeda/(proto-)IS threat actor, as well as competent Quds Force (trained) elements, and savvy Haqqani operators (mostly toward the end of the COIN campaign in Afghanistan).
With that said, there is no need to elaborate on how these reservists from Taiwan will stack up against a professional and well resourced military like the PLA, should they fail to surrender when the day of reckoning is before us.
I wonder if this is an information trap set by Taiwan to deliberately lure the enemy and show weakness. You should know that Taiwan has been guided and trained by the US military all year round, and it is unlikely that the army is really a show. If the US cognitive warfare is to lure China to attack Taiwan in 2027, then pretending that the Taiwanese army is a mess is a good way. We must consider that after this point in time, the comparison of US and Chinese military power will usher in a death cross, with US fighters and warships quickly retired and China's cutting-edge equipment of various branches of the military being put into service on a large scale. Starting a war in 2027 can obviously quickly and effectively destroy China's global manufacturing chain, allowing manufacturing to quickly flee to Vietnam and India, completely preventing China's high-tech from entering the Western camp market, and making the Chinese economy, which is on the verge of a downward trend, even worse. I think 2035 is the best time to start a war.
How to lure with soldiers trained 4 months