Re: Chinese rations evolution
Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 10:27 pm
Treesuit....
I have been following the tail of the PLA's copycat trail for a while.
The chinese have been modernizing their military and during the 90's they began "looking" a lot like the western counterparts ; uniforms, helmets etc...specially looking a lot like the US military
They even redesigned their AK's in order to look like the M16 series of rifles, their tanks look a lot like the Abrahams. And recently they started to make their rations bags to look a lot like the MRE's even in the logo!!!!!
that's one of the reasons the US military adopted the ACU uniforms which they are "difficult" to copy. that's why the new USMC MARPAT has the globe and anchor in their patterns
,because at one point the chinese military's BDU were almost identical to the US troops.and as you can see the chinese started their own digital patterns. Of course they are going to deny it....
Plus i bet the military already know this.
I think it has to be the "keep your friend close, your enemies closer..." attitude specially when they make EVERYTHING or almost everything we buy....
The pics?? I got them courtesy of the chinese state websites....
Peace!

I have been following the tail of the PLA's copycat trail for a while.
The chinese have been modernizing their military and during the 90's they began "looking" a lot like the western counterparts ; uniforms, helmets etc...specially looking a lot like the US military
that's one of the reasons the US military adopted the ACU uniforms which they are "difficult" to copy. that's why the new USMC MARPAT has the globe and anchor in their patterns
Plus i bet the military already know this.
I think it has to be the "keep your friend close, your enemies closer..." attitude specially when they make EVERYTHING or almost everything we buy....
The pics?? I got them courtesy of the chinese state websites....
Peace!