China-Pakistan joint military exercises "Friendship 2004"

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[ashoaib]

Wow!!!! what a cool pics :eek

 

[P1021]

Muwahahaha look at those cute 95rifles!!!!!

 

[SABRE]

Man the chinese soldiers look like they are realy beating up the guys at the training. I think it doesnt matter to them that weather ur their real enemy or just pretending to be. :

anyways coooool coooool pics. China Pakistan ought to put a similar show for public. Some day they gotta.

 

[mysterious]

Seriously! Are those 'real' people being thrown on the ground like that by PLA troops? Ouch!! Poor volunteers I guess. Hope it didnt hurt much. :smokingc:

 

[armage]

On the last pic the person in blue is real I think.

 

[Pathfinder-X]

Yep all people being thrown around, pushed to ground, knocked by rifle butt are PLA border units. Personally I think the PLA placed too much emphsis on hand to hand combat training instead of shooting.

 

[gf0012-aust]

Yep all people being thrown around, pushed to ground, knocked by rifle butt are PLA border units. Personally I think the PLA placed too much emphsis on hand to hand combat training instead of shooting.

yep, I agree. I do seem to remember reading an intel report some time back that said that this was changing though.

I suspect that this was more of a photo op event than a reflection of doctrinal SOP.

 

[armage]

I feel sorry for those guys getting thrown around...........

 

[Pathfinder-X]

yep, I agree. I do seem to remember reading an intel report some time back that said that this was changing though.

I suspect that this was more of a photo op event than a reflection of doctrinal SOP.

Photo op is right! Take a look at third picture and you'll see why this is a photo op rather than a combat exercise.

A squad of Pakistan and Chinese soldiers group together rushing enemy positions. Perfect target practice for machine gunners.

 

[gf0012-aust]

yep, I agree. I do seem to remember reading an intel report some time back that said that this was changing though.

I suspect that this was more of a photo op event than a reflection of doctrinal SOP.

Photo op is right! Take a look at third picture and you'll see why this is a photo op rather than a combat exercise.

A squad of Pakistan and Chinese soldiers group together rushing enemy positions. Perfect target practice for machine gunners.

3, 4, 6

An excellent portrayal of how to get killed. Good for the camera, not much good for training.

 

[SABRE]

lol, looks like the guy being throughen around has no wait at all.
Just look at it.

 

[mysterious]

I'm having second thoughts as to if that is even a real human being at all or not. Looks more like a dummy to me! :smokingc: