[sinsofsolarempirefan]

Do they have gear capable of taking down helicopter gunships, fighter-bombers and tanks, or just small arms?
The government also has technology that can detect the trajectory of home-made mortars and is getting better at detecting IEDs, and now detecting snipers before they can even fire a shot.
As the insurgencies in Afghanistan and Iraq have shown, you can’t hope to defeat a western military, the best you can hope to do is survive....

[cripplecreek]

Do they have gear capable of taking down helicopter gunships, fighter-bombers and tanks, or just small arms?

We're talking about sheer numbers and even a 2 million man army with all it's technology will lose against a poorly armed army of 100 million or more.

[jospehm20]

What the insugencies in Iraq and Afghanistan have shown, to anybody who cares to think about it, is that a few thousand motivated people can keep a large modern army tied up for years.

[PapaBear3625]

Do they have gear capable of taking down helicopter gunships, fighter-bombers and tanks, or just small arms?

All those are just hunks of metal if the clerks and secretaries don't process the paperwork that keeps them supplied with fuel and spare parts. And the clerks and secretaries are subject to persuasion to quit from their fellow citizens.