Posted on 01/11/2021 9:09:42 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The Chinese military is equipping soldiers stationed in Tibet with newly developed helmets embedded with a self-destruct button.
The button will trigger an embedded bomb to go off, killing the soldier.
“At a battalion or brigade level command center, a commander monitors a soldier who is far away by using the navigation system. The commander can activate the self-destruct function of the soldier’s helmet if he can’t get in contact with him,” state-run media China Observer reported on Dec. 27.
Soldiers can also press the button themselves. “If a soldier is seriously wounded and doesn’t want to be captured, he can activate the self-destruct function himself. This can maintain his dignity, as well as prevent the enemy from obtaining this system,” the report stated.
The new helmet is part of a so-called “individual soldier digital combat system” given to troops in the Tibet theater command. They face Indian troops at the border, where there were recent skirmishes over disputed territory in the Ladkh region.
The system includes an antenna and bomb, night vision multifunctional glasses, and a digital control terminal that can be worn on the arm.
After being equipped with the system, soldiers at the frontline can communicate with the battalion commander at the command center via radio, according to the report.
Meanwhile, the commander can see the frontline by reading the video footage captured by the soldier’s camera equipped inside his jacket.
By viewing the footage, the commander can order to fire artillery targeting Indian soldiers, the report stated. It further claimed that soldiers can detonate the button when they approach Indian forces. This system would ensure that the Chinese side would win any potential conflict with the Indian army, the report stated.
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RE: Well, if I were a Chinese soldier, I would likely decline to wear that helmet.
You’d be court martialed in a jiffy and face a firing squad before the day is over.
This is grotesque.
And the supplier of the helmets?
Acme products of Walla Walla, Washington.
What maroons!
CC
Pei Ping.
[RE: Well, if I were a Chinese soldier, I would likely decline to wear that helmet.
You’d be court martialed in a jiffy and face a firing squad before the day is over.]
According to legend they encountered a gigantic white serpent which killed members of Liu Bang’s group with its poisonous breath. It is said that while drunk, Liu Bang slew the serpent that night and later encountered an old woman weeping by the side of the road the next morning. When the men following Liu asked her why she was crying, she replied, “My child, the White Emperor’s son, has been slain by the son of the Red Emperor.” She then mysteriously disappeared. After hearing the old woman’s strange words, Liu Bang’s followers believed that he was destined to become a ruler in the future and became even more impressed with him. This event is known as the “Uprising of the Slaying of the White Serpent” (Chinese: 斬白蛇起義).
Liu Bang and his followers took refuge on Mount Mangdang and lived as outlaws in an abandoned stronghold. Liu had maintained secret contact with some of his old friends such as Xiao He and Cao Shen who still lived in Pei County. In 209 BCE, two men named Chen Sheng and Wu Guang began the Dazexiang Uprising to overthrow the Qin dynasty. The magistrate of Pei County considered joining the rebellion as well and acting on the advice of both Xiao He and Cao Shen, he sent Fan Kuai (a relative of Liu Bang) to invite Liu and his followers back to Pei County to support him. However, he later decided against it and ended up denying Liu Bang entry into his lands. He also worried that Liu’s friends Xiao He and Cao Shen might decide to open the gates for Liu now that he had been denied entry, so he set a plan in motion to kill them but Xiao and Cao managed to escape before it was put into action and eventually joined up with Liu and his entourage. While in Liu’s company, Xiao came up with a plan to gain entry into the county and managed to convince Liu to take his advice. Liu Bang ordered his men to write letters, wrap them around their arrows and fire the arrows over the border and into the neighboring county from which they had been barred. In the letters they urged the local townsfolk to help him. The peasants responded to this call for aid by killing the magistrate and welcoming Liu back into Pei County. Liu Bang decided to style himself the “Duke of Pei” (沛公) after this and became known to others by this title. ]
[As a former USMC grunt, I can attest with a high degree of confidence that this will not improve morale very much.]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrier_troops
If actually deployed, this helmet would serve the function of a barrier detachment without actually having such a unit. I’m skeptical. How do you zero in on an individual helmet? What if helmets got swapped? Sounds like a bizarro Tom Swift concept more than reality. Also puts unit leaders in grave danger from fratricidal incidents.
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My first thought as well
My second thought
This can get very interesting with a frequency jammer. Press a button and your enemy starts exploding.
Didn’t Israel have something like this for finding bombs at checkpoints?
Hard to detonate remotely though.
I guess their ‘reactive helmet armour’ research didn’t quite work out.
Block the effing signal to the boss.... bam
The Us also has it. CROW and WARLOCK
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