Great, I feel like I set off a powder keg few days ago, now everything's spicy so I might as well jump in
On a strategic level, we're purely a defensive force, we're not really postured for an attack. So no Idea why you would think the Rafales are going to be alone
In a conflict, The Rafales are supported by SAMs and a layered AA cover. The average PLAAF pilot is being hurriedly pushed to combat sorties before having a good amount of flight hours in the cockpit. The result is the interceptions they make with USN aircrafts in SCS. Not really professional in terms of interception. That shows the training isn't really upto par. Even with them having recruited some Western pilots, not everything's going to be leaked for the PLA. So stop using that brain-dead example already lol
Since we're in the infantry thread, let's go into that. Only PLA Marine Corps, PLA airborne, SOF and Amphibious units are receiving high cut helmets. And most lack earpros because it's being given to SOF and Airborne troops. Not everyone in PLA has earpros, yet.
What PLA has right now is good amount of body armour and new ACH-ish helmets with digital NVGs. It's going to put us at a disadvantage, but not upto the levels that of the fight between the muj and US. All section leaders and 2IC have NVGs, and it goes up the chain to the platoon commander. So in a sense a platoon has night fighting capabilities, it's just that not everyone has the benefit of seeing what's out there. And since the PLA have 2nd gen NVGs, it's not really as good as you might think it is, it works but not good. You can always circumvent older NVGs. Digital NVGs also lag a bit, so there's that.
What we lack is good body armour and NVGs. That's it. Yeah there's no IFAK for us either, but I haven't seen any of the Chinese grunts running any IFAK. So we're even in that. We have a fairly good helmet nowadays (unless you want to cope on the fact that some units still use fiberglass helmets. For the sake of God, to standardize something takes time in any army, especially ours, at least most of the units have the new helmets in place.). SiGs are slowly getting some optics and foregrips. The only thing that's not moving forward is the body armour, which sucks but optimism still exists. PCs might come some day, who the fuck knows. And at the very least, some units are locally procuring plate carriers for the troops. It's just not standardized.
Does PLA have PEQ-15s? No. Do they have ENVGs/ Gen 3+ NVGs? No. I don't get how they're "generations" ahead of us when they only have a pretty better gear but still not something out of a HALO game or a Call of Duty Advanced Warfare stuff. Also some of the gear are privately purchased in some PLA pics, like this
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The high cut is privately purchased, they have a good scope and a foregrip, no gucci shit as suppressors, PEQ-15s, or something like the new XM157 Optics, which are pretty advanced, you can select multiple targets with that scope. The big pouch is supposedly carrying water (no IFAK) and there's no battlebelt with extra stuff, which is only kind of standard in SOF and Airborne units. No sidearm or anything like that.
Quit crying over something that can be achieved in the near future. It's not as if crying all over the internet is going to change much. Yeah we're at some disadvantage, that doesn't mean we're just too shit that we can't do anything against PLA. Hopefully there will be a time when the things we lack will come soon enough. Saying we're fucked is just showing you're obsessed on criticizing the army on everything and everything lmao. Take a chill pill
