Earthquakes don’t shake the islands apart. If an earthquake could actually be strong enough to do so, a major shit would happen across the entire (wider) region.

And while the USN is busy dealing with them, Chinese submarine and bomber forces can get busy dealing with the US carriers. In a shooting war, anything goes.

Except that you are wrong. They are basically building an IADS over the South China sea, and that my friend, is the best fortification one can have. Would you call Guam pointless, Gibraltar, Akrotiri or Kaliningrad pointless?

Ok, while not the mixtapes, but here are some Chinese music videos:

It’s a seriously flawed logic, the same one that had DoD planners thinking that all the future wars would be interventions and insurgencies, and then, the 2014 happened.

Chinese military, in all intents and purposes, is being expanded with an eye for a potential future confrontation with the US and its allies.

You see, arguments like these destroy your credibility in every reasonable discussion. It also shows your horrible ignorance and complacency. Wars and crises that precede them often happen with little warning.

I am genuinely curious why are you Putinbots so butthurt over this aircraft. Is it perhaps because of the inferiority complex?

There is a country in the Far East called China. And both aircraft have actually performed missions they were built for. And today it takes a decade to put a modern combat aircraft in service. And you are horribly shortsighted; who says that there won’t be a full scale war in the near future?

DoD be like:

Also, here is a spy shot of its first test pilot:

The XM25 is great, but I think that “multirole” weapons like that XM29 are stupid and pointless. The problem is, the DoD always has an urge to create a Swiss army knife in order to make an efficient screwdriver.

It looks horribly impractical and pointless for anyone who isn’t Rambo or Robocop.

Interesting reads. You are right; while it is widely known that the Germans don’t really want to squeeze the Russians like the rest of the NATO does, as it is too much important for them, economically, that it is not often reported by the press.

What the actual fuck is that last weapon? It looks like it came from a stupid 80s sci fi action movie.

While I don’t know the details about the T-62, I do know that T-72 was a “second class” tank. T-80 was their primary tank, equipping most of the “first class”, spearhead units, while the T-72 was serving mostly with the motor rifle divisions and OMG units, whose role was to exploit that breakthrough. T-90 was actually…

You know, subs don’t run at max speed all the time, meaning they are not always easily detectable. Alfas and Victors were the first boats that really scared the NATO planners.

I didn’t mean Russia joining NATO, I meant some sort of looser, cooperation-based alliance - sharing technology, economical cooperation and so on.

That’s exactly what makes China a more credible military adversary, and a reason for the potential arms race. Russia is more of a hollow force, a nation with Napoleon complex; they have lost their significance and now they are trying to regain it with aggressive posturing.