Taiwan's New Special Forces Uniform

[EmoBorg]

The Republic of China AKA Taiwan has just revealed it's new SF uniform.

What do you think, guys ? Should The US adopt it as well?


http://yahoosg.tumblr.com/post/65416433105/taiwan-unveils-scary-special-forces-uniform-photo

http://www.dramafever.com/news/taiwans-new-army-uniforms-are-downright-scary/

 

[scotpens]

The armor is supposed to protect against close range shots. When the soldiers line up and march, it's hard not to think they look like a Star Wars clone army.

From the neck down, maybe. From the neck up, they look a lot more like these guys.

 

[SmoothieX]

Those things are a ball gag away from being a bondage, S&M fetish video.

 

[Sephiroth]

yes, big, heavy masks that limit field of vision and motion, I can see no ill side-effects to this

 

[EmoBorg]

I personally think that the guy who designed the face armor was inspired by Army of Two.

 

[ManOnTheWave]

How much fun it must be to breathe under those masks.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Those things are a ball gag away from being a bondage, S&M fetish video.

You forgot butt-plugs......unless those are already there

At least with these uniforms, no one will recognize any faces when these guys are cracking down on the civilians for, y'know, breathing.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

Is Taiwan stricter than mainland China then?

 

[Locutus of Bored]

yes, big, heavy masks that limit field of vision and motion, I can see no ill side-effects to this

Also, any stealthiness is ruined by the fact that whenever you try and sneak up behind someone, this creepy "sha sha sha sha, mah mah mah mah" sound keeps coming out of nowhere.

On the plus side though, the body armor gives you the ability to catch up to someone no matter how fast they run and how slow you walk.

 

[auntiehill]

Yeah, peripheral vision. Who fucking needs it?

 

[EmoBorg]

Is Taiwan stricter than mainland China then?

Let me put it this way. When the Chinese Communists defeated the Nationalist during the Chinese civil war and the Nationalist retreated to Taiwan, the vast majority of Chinese common folk were elated.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

It makes me think of an army of Jasons coming for ya.

 

[TedShatner10]

Is Taiwan stricter than mainland China then?

Let me put it this way. When the Chinese Communists defeated the Nationalist during the Chinese civil war and the Nationalist retreated to Taiwan, the vast majority of Chinese common folk were elated.

But I assume the elation died down a bit after some tens of millions starved to death. Those Taiwan guys remind me of the MARS Industries shocktroopers in the first GI Joe movie.

 

[EmoBorg]

But I assume the elation died down a bit after some tens of millions starved to death. Those Taiwan guys remind me of the MARS Industries shocktroopers in the first GI Joe movie.

If you read the early modern history of China, there was a lot of inequality in that country because of the many centuries of autocratic imperial rule. The nationalist who took over from the imperialist, were themselves corrupt, practiced crony capitalism and were in league with warlords in distant parts of the country. to whom they outsourced authority to carry out administration and collect taxes.

The Communist were seen ,in the early part of of the 20th century, caring about the peasants who made up a huge part of the country population. The communist did make terrible mistakes later on with the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. But the early socialist rule got ride of the inequality present in that society. With Capitalism hopefully, China can grow wealthy.

As for the Nationalist, they had their shot and they f**ked things up badly when they ruled China.

 

[Sephiroth]

can the masks stop one of these (on the right) at close range?

 

[Hound of UIster]

This is generally a mischaracterization of both the KMT, the CCP and their disparate goals as well as the history of China in the early 20th Century. The narrative that it was the KMT who lost hold of the country due to their incompetence and that the Communists somehow won by moral virtue and the righteousness of their cause. This narrative was built primarily from a variety of English sources (that had a vested interested in selling the idea of KMT corruption and PRC honesty) and those researchers and historians that constructed this narrative (such as Barbara Tucham) rarely bothered consulting any Chinese based sources from the period. It's not far fetched to say this narrative is a narrative created by Westerners and for Western Audiences and more a reaction to contemporary events that was happening in the West.

What we actually know from multiple Chinsese sources now is that much of this is either false or a distortion of actual events. The loss of the KMT to the PLA was less due to matters of politics and morality and more due to the events of the Sino-Japanese War. The KMT was the bulk of the military resistance against the Japanese in China. Due to this, they also incurred the majority of the losses in terms of personnel, equipment and infrastructure fighting against the Japanese. The KMT simply couldn't recover from those losses since they had lost their best units and their best men against the IJA. The CCP was thus able to take advantage of the military weakness of the KMT and the respite provided to them during the Sino-Japanese War to build up their own forces with the assistance of the Russians. The loss of the KMT was less a morality tale and more simply the CCP becoming much stronger during the War while the KMT had become much weaker.

But the early socialist rule got ride of the inequality present in that society..

The inequality is still very much present in China. Not just geographic inequality between those living in the richer Eastern coastal provinces versus the much poorer interior but serious income and political inequality. For all their talk of breaking down class barriers, the CCP has erected barriers of their own. The descendents of those original Communist fighters who fought to overthrow the KMT are now virtually an ennobled aristocracy who by claim of descent have created a virtual monopoly on military, political and corporate power within China. The boards of the SOEs and the seats of the Central Military Commission and Central Committee are all controlled by these families. Two out of the last three General Secretaries of the CCP have been chosen from the children or adopted children of these people. It's not a great leap to claim that the CCP hasn't gotten rid of inequality. They just have created more of it and restyled it.

Is Taiwan stricter than mainland China then?

No. It has a democratically elected government. The military however is not a volunteer force, but rather a conscripted force. In terms of modern East Asian nation, Singapore, Taiwan, Korea and Japan are your poster children examples.