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China Buyers Selling Knockoffs of Russian Military Gear Back to Russia (www.newsweek.com)

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[–] PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Russian gear is more expensive but better, and people will always choose quality."

The existance of Wish and its ilk show this to be a lie.

That said, I'm surprised that Russian-Chinese relations are such that they aren't issuing Chinese-pattern kit to the troops. I guess that'd be too blatant a snub of embargos for the international community.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 9 points 3 months ago

I remember a big list of "army facts", I think of aussie origin. One of the items says:

Never forget that your equipment is supplied by the lowest bidder