صوره اخرى لقناصة قاذفة القنابل LG5— SulaimanAldoosari (@SAUDI_POWER0) November 3, 2019
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Warzone/The Drive: Saudi Troops Are Using This Huge Grenade Launcher Gun That Looks Like An Action Movie Prop
Saudi Arabia appears to be the first foreign customer for the Chinese-made weapon and its troops in Yemen seem to be the first to use it in combat.
Pictures and a video have emerged online reportedly showing a Saudi Arabian soldier engaged in the conflict against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen using a Chinese-made Norinco LG5 man-portable 40mm grenade launcher. This appears to be the first evidence of the weapon, which looks like a prop gun from a Hollywood blockbuster, being in service outside China, as well as its first use in combat anywhere.
Twitter user SulaimanAldoosari, who also goes by SAUDI_POWER0 on Instagram, posted the images of the LG5 in use with Saudi forces in Yemen on social media on Nov. 3, 2019. It is unclear how long the Saudis have been using the weapon, but Defence Blog reported in February 2018, citing unnamed sources, that Chinese state-run arms company Norinco had secured an order for the grenade launchers from an unspecified "Middle East customer."
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WNU Editor: That weapon definitely looks intimidating.
2 comments:
US used to have the edge in design (in terms of visual appearance, just look at the B2 bomber - how old it is, the shape of it was awe inspiring back then, yaw dropping, all of it.. unbelievably fantastic.. BUT.. for decades the design front has stagnated, likely because materiology, basic physics and engineering have been pushed to their edge and until breakthroughs/game changers/new-frontier barriers like self-assembling dynamic nano-materials, force shields, invisibility cloaks etc are better understood, there will be fewer breakthroughs that are as yaw-dropping, hence China (and British, Canadian etc who spend far, far less) are capable of catching up .. it's interesting, really - the lack of scientific breakthroughs is leveling also the playing field in hard assets (not soft ones, like visual appearance), from conventional bullet accuracies, muzzle velocities to triad fundamentals like GPS, satellites, etc..
I really would recommend to invest heavily in economic (and defense) multipliers like fundamental research and at the same time implement a better anti-spy program, and cut down visas of nations that wish you harm/are potentially wishing you harm - at least financially, if we can believe the reports of trillions(!) in IP and copyright and other WTO related industrial and espionage theft. If countries can see a naval embargo as an act of war, then such economic, well, warfare, should be treated as cold war, with all consequences required. But the US is very slow in cutting down the Visas. I recommend doing so - together with the before-mentioned massive increase in spending for research, particularly in material sciences, engineering, aerodynamics, hypersonic propulsion, laser technology, encryption relevant technologies (like quantum computing - if we can believe Google had a massive breakthrough there.. how likely is it that China already got that info? Very likely.. another game changer technology lost)..
Should be Trump's top agenda in the trade war
And yet they still can't figure out how to end the war. Silver bullets are now substitute for military/strategic competence.
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