Apocalypse Now... Chinese Style!
 

More info here:
http://china-defense.blogspot.com/20...tacked-on.html

The Chinese are sending these:
http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/6...2215226442.jpg

It has 100mm armor and 14.5mm machine guns...

Still not as cool as PBR... :O:

What a pretty paint job.:haha:

because we all know that anything that involves China is scary. really, why are we so afraid of china? if anything it's a sign to stop letting wall street run the nation and return us to what made America great: Science innovations and a strong middle class.

Why do you attempt to inject partisan politics into everything?

Chinese patrol boats on Asian rivers have squat to do with your divisive party line. Maybe you posted in the wrong thread...

The DNC email must have just gone out:haha:. Starting timer for TvM now.

I thought it was corporations screwing over the middle/lower classes and economically enslaving minorities that made America great... And killing Indians too. :03:

Please ignore/close this thread. :nope:

Forgive me for bringing to everyone's attention a ongoing multinational counter piracy operation they may not have heard of. :doh:

I didn't realize it would turn political in the 2nd reply. :roll:

Let me check my math. My reply would be the first reply, not the second post.:hmmm:

Are there any close ups of that Chinese boat?

Took a look at the link and found the Laotian Boat is the same like the chinese, so this boat maybe has some kind of a Platoon on board to respond such attacks eventually with an land counterattack i assume.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xNOY8BJov8...404805_61n.jpg

correct yours was the 1st reply. You did not turn it political my K9 friend.

China, Myanmar, Cambodia and I think Laos all operate these craft, they are based on some kind of civilian scow.

http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/1...104d4d2101.jpg

Smaller Chinese Cutters are carried aboard the larger boats:

http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/5...17f16470dt.jpg

Close up of the smaller cutter:
http://img830.imageshack.us/img830/8...3dfb9dd7f6.jpg

http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/6...2a4187dca9.jpg
http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/7...1b59921f99.jpg

This one is Laotian:
http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/5...e205f69406.jpg
http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/1598/132353107038711.jpg
http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/9...2249731025.jpg

This shows where the smaller cutter is stored:
http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/4...2249740453.jpg
http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/898/i...ndlerashxk.jpg

Some other PRC patrol craft, looks like its based on some kind of passenger ferry:
http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/5...atrolcraft.jpg

Chinese Troops:
http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/6...19f16470dt.jpg
http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/301...24f16470dt.jpg


Cambodian sailors I think:
http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/999...25f16470dt.jpg

This is GT, you should know by now that every thread regardless of what it is will turn either about politics, religion, or sex (or some combination of the three).

As for the topic, I have to say those boats look like nice big targets to me.

I'm wondering why the Chinese boats have all that bunting on display?

Some kind of message perhaps?

At first, I didn't see the guns on there, but after looking at the close-ups, I see them now. The whole thing just struck me as funny, because they don't look like a military ship.

http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/5...17f16470dt.jpg

This looks more like a boat show.:haha:

Reminds me a bit of the problems they had with that farmer who wouldn't get off the land developers wanted. He used a homemade rocket launcher on them IIRC. Let me check that...yeah, here we are, Yang Youde:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4eDYq5lUUw

http://www.badassoftheweek.com/youde.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010...an-wins-payout