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Hey Cappy can you pls make more videos on Indian Army like especially on the procurement process. Like how the Indian Air Force still hasn't decided which aircraft to buy for 30 years. They are still in Competition 😅 And P75I submarine too. Our Red Tapeism makes US procurement very quick
I love how those amerimutts are so good into finding corruptiuon in the farest corners of the world but always totally ignore the massive corruption in their oun country
Vlad Vexler made an absolutely spot-on video about this and I highly recommend it. By the way, "water in missiles" is a mistake in translation. There is corruption with military officials and soldiers stripping materials from rockets, but they're not necessarily literally putting water in the rockets. Saying something is filled with water is a Chinese way of saying something is out of order, usually due to corruption. It's like when Americans say something has "shit the bed" when it breaks. Not meant to necessarily be taken literally.
That is correct. It is common in Chinese to refer to the practice of falsely claiming the quality of a product as "mixing in water". For example, the company may advertise they use 100% high quality steel to make a product, but in actuality, they use only 70% high quality steel and 30% cheap steel. In Chinese, you may call the company mixing water in their steel. You may even say the steel is made of 30% water.
@@xdxdsheep There's only one problem, steel is steel, and modern steel manufacturing procedures hasn't changed since the 1970s (using an electric arc furnace), steel along with concrete is really cheap to make (which is one of the reasons why the modern world is even possible to begin with). There's really incentive to cheap out on steel, if corruption were to occur it be embellishing funds. One would need to pull a conspiracy on the entire workforce to really work out.
The Communist Party of China is just a richer Qing Dynasty. Back then, the British defeated the Qing Dynasty with thousands of people. Today, the United States can defeat the Chinese Communist Party with tens of thousands of people. They have not changed anything.
*Not many folk think Texas can separate from the United States* BUT Under the original agreement of joining the USA Texas has - or at least one HAD - the right to separation / independence if it chose to do so. [I dunno if that's still enshrined in law tho?]
I found perun's video "how corruption destroys armies" to be very insightful. Truth is, like russia, we won't ever find out how deep it goes until "it kicks off." hoping for Russia levels of corruption and military incompetence is not something i'd plan a strategy around.
The one obvious corellary between Russia and China is that they both carry on the legacy of pervasive, inescapable communist corruption. It's how all such nations work. That doesn't guarantee specific outcomes in regard to China's military, but the idea that it wouldn't be just as rotten as the rest of their government is laughable.
And even if China is just as corrupt or more....Russia appears to have turned things around a little bit after 2 years , who's to say China wouldn't do the same?
Perun did a video on Chinese military capability a couple weeks ago and it's absolutely worth the hour and change for anyone interested in the PLA. ETA: Welp I guess Cappy already gave a shout-out to that Perun video at the end of this video.
The problem with using chunks of solid rocket fuel for cooking isn't just because it cannibalizes munitions, but that the soldiers were supposed to have fuel for their stoves, and that was just part of the supplies that were disappearing before they got to the soldiers in the field.
There have been only three nations in the world with next level, synchronized parades: Nazi Germany, North Korea, and China. Nobody should even waste time trying to match these three nations... because they are the most experienced, when it comes to these choreographical public parades. As a side not, all three nations have no doubt such beautiful & precision driven public displays are indicative of their armed forces' actual fighting prowess. It's weird how some grown men think about reality... America, too, could start those synchronized military parades & rituals... if our Great Leader, the genius Trump, were to rule for 8 - 12 more years, straight. He loves to have such beautiful marches taking place in front of him, too, he says (after having seen such rituals in France, Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, etc). Imagine hundreds of F-22 & F-35s & Apaches flying overhead.... and thousands of Abrams & Bradley's parading through Capitol grounds/Pennsylvania Avenue.... with 10,000 US Marines doing their exceptional Silent Drill acts .... and with 100,000 Army, Navy, and Air Force soldiers marching in locked steps.... followed by hundreds of ICBMs.... Trump would be beaming with the biggest of smiles, with Fox News broadcasting 24/7 for years straight!
@@kiabtoomlauj6249😂 not only do your have severe TDS but failed to include the USSR whom had the longest tradition of military parades, and if we include the Russian Federation is still going strong. Given Russia is actually the strongest and best trained military right now.
One more thing to keep in mind, is that under Xi Jingping, “anti-corruption campaigns” have often been a thinly veiled mechanism for ousting poltical rivals, especially those loyal to the previous Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao factions.
Yes. Still, I always thought it must still be a carefully tread path for the higher ups to walk. They’re still participating in the same corruption as the subordinates, and you can bet those with career aspirations keep track of their superior’s weaknesses to exploit. What a mentally exhausting way to have to live and work.
Hard to doubt that's happening, but if one of their own faction starts becoming too incompetent, causes too many troubles, and doesn't have strong backers, then they too are in the chopping block. There are other greedy and ambitious people eyeing for a promotion and dragging other people down could be done if enough dirt is taken. Everyone they don't like, from enemies to one of their own, is on the hook in the "anti-corruption campaign"
We don’t care about that shit tbh,his anti-corruption campaigns do changed a lot,this is what matters to our people,as for who’s gonna be the chairman,we just don’t give a fuck
@BeenGolden Ehm… are you totally unaware that the Chinese use letters and numbers too and don’t just write everything in characters? Just look at a license plate... 🤦♂
Another possibility for the "water" report is that their ballistic missiles are fueled with kerosene. I have no trouble believing that a General would sell regular kerosene ($2 per gallon) to the rocket force as rocket grade kerosene (about $100 per gallon) One of the reasons rocket grade kerosene is so expensive is they remove every trace of water , because it would damage the engines. So if you have regular jet fuel or kerosene sitting in ballistic missiles , or the fueling systems for those missiles , you have a massive and very expensive problem to fix.
This channel has become my favorite source of information about the world's militaries. I don't know how you dig up so much info, but you deserve the subs.
A few years ago, NORINCO sent some wheeled armored vehicles to be tested by the Argentine Army, they were supposed to be amphibious and in the first test in a swamp they sank, the exhaust pipe heated the doors and they did not close properly, apart from that they couldn't touch each other. They were supposed to be demonstration vehicles, with better quality than the standard ones. It was learned that the materials were of poorer quality because the middle managers were profiting from the company.
There's quite the gap in your story, here. How was it learned that the middle managers were profiting from the company? Why should demonstration vehicles be a better quality than the standard ones? What the hell is 'NORINCO'? Don't quit your day job to become a storyteller.
@ridethecurve55 That’s a lot of critiquing on a UA-cam comment there bud. It doesn’t matter how the middle managers were found, and it’s pretty self explanatory to anyone with a greater than childlike intellect why you would want your demonstration product to be the best possible version. Btw, if you don’t know what norinco is that’s a you issue because it’s mentioned in the video and many other (there’s also the fact that Google exists and the context clearly states it’s a group that sells weapons)
@@mcarrowtime7095 Yea but how do you know this is true? I've been working with some UAV for the military in north america. and I can tell you that quality is bad, why because most of demonstration are rushed in development. and finally when you try to demonstrate multiple launch or autonomous, it actually most of the time failed. Example of the work I was doing was you are supposed to remote guiding your UAV with long range distance up to 10 km... during the final phase testing, range was 500m... Demonstration always less quality and less capable than final product. as most of project, it's always under estimate, under staff and sold too much!!. Here, people just try to discredit China. Why do we always talk about China? here corruption is everywhere. Have never seen any report on Corruption of US. 50 billions of $ sent to Ukraine and Ukrainian general admit that they have received only about 20billions of weapon.. where's the rest? Someone should definitively do a report on this.. but strangly, this never happen, but gosh we know everyting about Russia and China.. when video always focus on some countries specifically, you know it's rigged..
@@geektechpow4537I'm sure your experience at a western private defense contractor is 100% analogous to a Chinese state run defense contractor. definitely couldn't be different.
USA too. A recent case. A retired four-star US Navy admiral has been arrested on allegations that he agreed to award a government contract to a company in exchange for a future job with the firm.
At 6:04 Rocket fuel to cook hot pot.... During the Vietnam conflict, US soldiers would sometimes use C-4 plastic explosives to cook things with. C-4 is pretty stable, it burns that does not explode when you put it in a fire. The MythBusters did a myth on this one time....
How long does this lie going to last........ Military rocket fuel are highly toxic chemical, those people even need to wear protection suit before filling up the rock. How is this possible anyone believe they use the highly toxic chemical to cook food???
Corruption is the real killer everyone across the board take a little hear and there fudged a little here and there embellish the report here and there you end up with a highly polished golden turd it looks like gold but actually full of shit and if you let it go to far the polish golden turd might even be mistaken as real gold by even people with the best of intention and highest authority and used as such until it hits the fan and and show it self as the shit it really is.
Except you could look at how the Soviet union was a complete nightmare strategic wise because of all the purging and corruption interfering with the military’s mobilization
“US intelligence thinks Chinese corruption is so bad that missile is filled with water”Good to see US intelligence on China doesn’t even understand Chinese language properly😂
Man, your videos are some of the best around, you keep an unbiased opinion and analyse all of the facts, news, leaks and put everything in one. Good job!
19:59 No no no…. The best military buzzword is Tactical! Not lethality 😂 you yourself have pointed out how easy it is to add tactical to anything and make it sound better. Like this tactical comment for instance, or your tactical merch sale, tactical word play, tactical humor…. All things I love about your channel! Thanks for the information and the laughs!
As someone from Mainland China, corruption is never an issue for any Chinese official, military or not. everyone is corrupt in China, if you do not participate in the circle, nobody will promote you to an official position, from low rank to high rank. for the Chinese, talk about controlling your subordinates, it is always easier, or you will feel safer when you know your subordinary officer has some dirt in your hand, that is the result of a thousand years of internal bureaucracy development, nobody in this world masters this better than Chinese. and China society is officer-base society, which means you social status is always judged by how high the rank of your government official position is, within this society, everyone is corrupt, absolutely. all these corruption charges are just excuses to remove political in-fighting losers.xi himself has the mindset of the normal Chinese emperor, which really enjoy his official in-fighting, this is a way to show his political controlling ability. it is very difficult for non-Chinese to understand, there are tons of books in China telling you how to become a "good" officer, and how to control your subordinates. all these aside, it doesn't mean the PLA is not willing to fight to defend their social status, aka their official status, which is protection. the worst thing is not that you got demoted, it is after your officer status drops, you and your family will be erased by your political enemy. so when you look at news about Chinese officials, one key thing is not who got demoted, it is who got kicked out of the party, that is a sentence for this dude never has a chance to come back.
Exactly this, I have read enough books to understand how China works, of course first hand experience is something I am lacking but this is that case. To understand that you have to felt it on your own, like we did in Eastern Europe. Everyone is corrupted so that when it is time to purge one faction it is easier to play corruption card for society. West do not understand how it works as there is money myth, especially in US. In the same way we would find what true Roman was super strange to ours todays concept.
Is it right for the US military to openly be greedy for money? A $300000 mug, a $500000 toilet, a $300000 goat! Who is the investigator who died on the plane 🤡
Good briefing, Cappy. Let me say that during my time in the service and more importantly selling high-tech to the Pentagon, civilian agencies and contractors like Raytheon, Locked and Boeing, I never once saw even a hint of corruption. Cussedness and stupidity, sure, but not corruption.
The corruption is baked into the procurement process. Look at what's going on with the USPS and replacing Northrop Grumman LLV. Can't go purchase a already mass produced vehicle with built in economy of scale. Gotta bid for it, pay for prototypes from multiple bidders.... etc.
And why would you? If those companies pay great salaries to their workers and executives and their clients are not exactly the people you want to screw around with. Unlike China we in the West have a free(if not wish we could punch them in the face) media who would just “love” a story about some defense contractor screwing over the government. The recent Boeing plane door debacle is a perfect example. What China handles, if they even do, in the shadows we shine spot lights on for the world to see. The last thing any of these companies want is for their reputations to take a major hit.
@@rainbowsixODSTAnd they can pay their workers so much money because they sell so many weapons! What China need to do is to go and start more wars so they use more weapons to expose the corruption. To be fair though, the only reason the Boeing scandle was only publicised so widely was because it benefitted Airbus, in fact the first articles were publicised by corporations with close links to Airbus
Explain the corners boeing cut which resulted in the cough cough aircraft door being blown off midflight? Please, if you don't think there is corruption in America doesn't mean there isn't any. Corruption is everywhere.
I’m no card player at all, literally except for solitaire and maybe go-fish, but I often wondered why it was such a big deal to be wary of mixing gambling with the military (or any similarly hierarchical institution). That quote about ‘never putting oneself in the position of taking from your men’ was basically an epiphany for me. Thnx, brother.
It's not a misstranslation, the China show's laowhy86 and serpentza confirmed the translation as they both speak fluent mandarin and live a combined total of 25 years...
@user-zu1ht4ji2m what you mean to say, is that the source could be lying. sometimes sources make stuff up in intel world, to gain favors. and even if the source is not lying, then its about how farspread the practice is. and even if its widespread practice, have they already fixed it by re-checking all missiles and changed the practices.
As an NCO in 🇦🇫, I had to DIRECT ORDER one of my troops, he was staying until “no longer required” he was told by buddies, 1-2 days not weeks. I was in no mood, and came aboard him hard. He was very very pissed off when I left. he was back to KAF days before I was…5 weeks. Canadians Army Vet
Direct Order Aye? I do get what you say, but Stating "Direct Orders" is very inline with this report. Figures of speech and facts are not the same. But i do Understand you. SF!
During my 14 years in China, I met a formidable obstacle in all my endeavours: endemci sky-high corruption. One example: I wanted to realise a large-scale socio-economic project in sustainable farming. But when the official told me, you can go ahead, but you need to pay me 70% of the investment money (total amount: 100 million Yuan), I with regret gave up my project, and my wife, who is Chinese did not get angry about it. I became aware that there will be not enough money left to correctly remunerate the many people involved in the project (mostly farmers) and not enough money to buy good diverse quality seed and agricultural tools (it was intended to be a permaculture project).
I was a U.S. Missile Launch Officer. Nuclear alert missiles are solid fueled. Liquid fuels would have to be loaded right before launch. That’s a very bad idea due to minutes being the difference between a launched rocket and one destroyed in its silo by the enemy!
Ya, the Atlas and the Titan…although wasn’t the fuel in the Titan stable enough to be in the tanks for some time, while on alert? Back in the golden age of defense budgets? :)
“To fill with water” doesn’t literally mean that it’s filled with water. It means that it’s filled with a cheaper fuel than it normally takes. To fill with water means to fill with a “cheaper and more accessible” thing.
Marching skills aren't difficult to master, not in my experience..I'm also ex army, and I know that it is not a manifestation of espirit d corp per se. I say that because my platoon got perfect marks in parade marching and top score in battalion rankings even though we almost had a race riot at the end of our training. Marching skills ain't sh*t kappy, but your experience may be different from mine, LOL😅
A friend of mine (Chinese American who does high end collectible business in China) was told of a meeting (this was 10-15 years ago where a bunch of generals were gifted BMWs loaded with gold. So much gold in fact that the cars would sag under the weight... Again, how true the story is I do not know and how much has changed? Not sure. But graft in the Chinese military is a huge issue
Show me the percentage of US Generals or Admirals who come from poor backgrounds. I was hard-pressed to find a single one. It's why I didn't become an officer after many generations of my family being enlisted. It's a rigged system where the rich command the poor to risk their lives for them.
dig the shout outs, perun's videos are long but they are also great for leaving in the background while you do something else (like... speedrunning cupcake?)
I've read somewhere else that "filled with water" is an Idiom for anything that got filled with a sub-par stuff. So the rockets are fueled...with something that even burns but I wouldn't take any bets on whether or not a particular missile can make max range... or even half range, or doesn't explode during launch.
I met a member of the Bell family of helicopter fame, who enjoyed a lengthy career in military procurement here in the USA. He garnered tens of millions of dollars in illegal kickbacks. Hence we must confront the fact that our system of full of corruption.
Let's be honest, if MacArthur had been allowed to drop that [UA-cam CENSORSHIP!] on [UA-cam CENSORSHIP!], it would simply be called "Korea" today, much to Ukraine's (and the world at large) relief.
Wonderful review, however the missiles that you describe, the DF-5B uses a storable liquid propellent/oxidizer combination similar to the Titan II series. That would be hydrazine/nitrogen tetroxide.
@Taskandpurpose I just graduated from fort benning! Since you were infantry I’m assuming you went to sand hill!! I’m 19K I went to 1-81 armored brigade where harmony church and brave rifle field is!!
As a leftist, I really appreciate your willingness to be rational about China. I don't like the country and a lot of what they do but a lot of people tend to give completely biased and dumb information.
An ultrapoliticized officers class in a huge army that is not actually at war with anyone will cause this problem over and over again. They just have too much free time, no real work, and too many chances for corruption
Because if you had learned it back in high school, the info would have been obsolete and thus incorrect today. You subliminally chose to not waste your time back then, and learn it when it was more accurate and relevant (today). LOL
Really cool you addressed their cultural emphasis of relationships over roles. In my company, where we have also Chinese clients, we explicitly trained to find our equivalent in their Org and make friends, as that what THEY expect. Real awesome to see an American give attention to other cultures point of view!!
A perfect opportunity to clean up the leadership (and the rank & file) before serious military action - like Taiwan? In any case, I do appreciate your videos, they always give me a thoughtful perspective to consider.
my face was shaved with a rock by my drill sgt in Fort Benning. It only took one time of that happening for me to keep a close eye on my Five oclock shadow.
Point of order: GEN McChrystal did not speak ill of the POTUS to the media. The media wrote a story based on comments from his staff about his true feelings. It was second hand info Rolling Stone printed as quotes. The reporter later un-alived himself in spectacular fashion.
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Hey Cappy can you pls make more videos on Indian Army like especially on the procurement process.
Like how the Indian Air Force still hasn't decided which aircraft to buy for 30 years.
They are still in Competition 😅
And P75I submarine too.
Our Red Tapeism makes US procurement very quick
为了阻止美国法西斯政权的种族灭绝，亚伦-布什内尔献出了自己年轻的生命。他的人道精神将永垂不朽，他伟大的壮举让我相信，美国军队是有希望的。
I love how those amerimutts are so good into finding corruptiuon in the farest corners of the world but always totally ignore the massive corruption in their oun country
Hey brother hows your so called 'mighty' abrams doing in ukraine ??
@@AshutoshSingh-UPit's good DOING, There's no Flying turret like your JUNK TANK SCAM T72 🤣
Vlad Vexler made an absolutely spot-on video about this and I highly recommend it.
By the way, "water in missiles" is a mistake in translation. There is corruption with military officials and soldiers stripping materials from rockets, but they're not necessarily literally putting water in the rockets. Saying something is filled with water is a Chinese way of saying something is out of order, usually due to corruption. It's like when Americans say something has "shit the bed" when it breaks. Not meant to necessarily be taken literally.
Perun’s video about it is also worth a watch!
Two excellently level-headed people.
@FSAPOJake. Wasn't that Amber Heard's defense?
That is correct. It is common in Chinese to refer to the practice of falsely claiming the quality of a product as "mixing in water". For example, the company may advertise they use 100% high quality steel to make a product, but in actuality, they use only 70% high quality steel and 30% cheap steel. In Chinese, you may call the company mixing water in their steel. You may even say the steel is made of 30% water.
你说的对。
但导弹注水的谣言是台湾人编造的。实际军用导弹用的是固体燃料。液体燃料导弹，大约是60年前的技术，现在已经全部被淘汰。
民用火箭有一部分用的是液体燃料，但民用火箭随时发射，无法注水。
中国军队确实存在贪腐，但是没有谣言中那么严重。
@@xdxdsheep There's only one problem, steel is steel, and modern steel manufacturing procedures hasn't changed since the 1970s (using an electric arc furnace), steel along with concrete is really cheap to make (which is one of the reasons why the modern world is even possible to begin with). There's really incentive to cheap out on steel, if corruption were to occur it be embellishing funds. One would need to pull a conspiracy on the entire workforce to really work out.
Cheers for the shout out mate, all the best.
of course man, it was an awesome video. hooah.
Huge fan of ya both! Thanks for all the great work. T&P and Perun always deliver.
I've seen your video on this topic given shout outs across several channels, it's good to see. And, of course, well earned as the video is fantastic.
Love any quality multi-channel networking; especially when 3 quality channels intermingle. Superb, gents. 🏆❤
Wow, this made my day
Tsun Tzu once said, “an incompetent underling is more damaging than a competent enemy.”
I think the comment you made about not underestimating your adversaries was a good one. The British never thought the Zulus could beat them.
You think CCCP doesn’t know what US is looking for ? Better you stay in US and part your corrupt
The Communist Party of China is just a richer Qing Dynasty. Back then, the British defeated the Qing Dynasty with thousands of people. Today, the United States can defeat the Chinese Communist Party with tens of thousands of people. They have not changed anything.
*Not many folk think Texas can separate from the United States* BUT
Under the original agreement of joining the USA Texas has - or at least one HAD - the right to separation / independence if it chose to do so.
[I dunno if that's still enshrined in law tho?]
The Australians severely underestimated those ruthless emus as well 😅
I found perun's video "how corruption destroys armies" to be very insightful. Truth is, like russia, we won't ever find out how deep it goes until "it kicks off." hoping for Russia levels of corruption and military incompetence is not something i'd plan a strategy around.
The one obvious corellary between Russia and China is that they both carry on the legacy of pervasive, inescapable communist corruption. It's how all such nations work. That doesn't guarantee specific outcomes in regard to China's military, but the idea that it wouldn't be just as rotten as the rest of their government is laughable.
And even if China is just as corrupt or more....Russia appears to have turned things around a little bit after 2 years , who's to say China wouldn't do the same?
Perun did a video on Chinese military capability a couple weeks ago and it's absolutely worth the hour and change for anyone interested in the PLA.
ETA: Welp I guess Cappy already gave a shout-out to that Perun video at the end of this video.
最腐败的军队是美国军队
just read Heller's Catch 22 and you'll understand quite clearly (and in a fun to read way) how it works. 😏👆
The problem with using chunks of solid rocket fuel for cooking isn't just because it cannibalizes munitions, but that the soldiers were supposed to have fuel for their stoves, and that was just part of the supplies that were disappearing before they got to the soldiers in the field.
One aspect that clearly has not been corrupted is the amount of training and expertise used to achieve synchronized parade marches.
There have been only three nations in the world with next level, synchronized parades: Nazi Germany, North Korea, and China. Nobody should even waste time trying to match these three nations... because they are the most experienced, when it comes to these choreographical public parades.
As a side not, all three nations have no doubt such beautiful & precision driven public displays are indicative of their armed forces' actual fighting prowess. It's weird how some grown men think about reality...
America, too, could start those synchronized military parades & rituals... if our Great Leader, the genius Trump, were to rule for 8 - 12 more years, straight. He loves to have such beautiful marches taking place in front of him, too, he says (after having seen such rituals in France, Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, etc).
Imagine hundreds of F-22 & F-35s & Apaches flying overhead.... and thousands of Abrams & Bradley's parading through Capitol grounds/Pennsylvania Avenue.... with 10,000 US Marines doing their exceptional Silent Drill acts .... and with 100,000 Army, Navy, and Air Force soldiers marching in locked steps.... followed by hundreds of ICBMs....
Trump would be beaming with the biggest of smiles, with Fox News broadcasting 24/7 for years straight!
@@kiabtoomlauj6249 On a side note. TDS runs deep in you. lol
@@timehaley True TDS is on display at his rallies. Cultists gonna cult.
@kiabtoomlauj6249 I can’t tell if you’re criticizing him or your explaining your personal fantasy
@@kiabtoomlauj6249😂 not only do your have severe TDS but failed to include the USSR whom had the longest tradition of military parades, and if we include the Russian Federation is still going strong.
Given Russia is actually the strongest and best trained military right now.
It costs US$1,000 for the US military to purchase a mug. Who is more corrupt?
Ye, I would like to hear his opinion about US military corruption.
Worse, bag of bearings for I think?… what was it?.. $37,000. Holy fuck.
Still number one in everything 😂
@@danielchoi4876 seals not bearings I think
Yes but we kicked ass everywhere while PLA ran away from combat in South Sudan.
It's better to overestimate your opponent and be pleasantly surprised, than to underestimate him and be rudely surprised.
One more thing to keep in mind, is that under Xi Jingping, “anti-corruption campaigns” have often been a thinly veiled mechanism for ousting poltical rivals, especially those loyal to the previous Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao factions.
Yes. Still, I always thought it must still be a carefully tread path for the higher ups to walk. They’re still participating in the same corruption as the subordinates, and you can bet those with career aspirations keep track of their superior’s weaknesses to exploit.
What a mentally exhausting way to have to live and work.
Hard to doubt that's happening, but if one of their own faction starts becoming too incompetent, causes too many troubles, and doesn't have strong backers, then they too are in the chopping block. There are other greedy and ambitious people eyeing for a promotion and dragging other people down could be done if enough dirt is taken. Everyone they don't like, from enemies to one of their own, is on the hook in the "anti-corruption campaign"
We don’t care about that shit tbh,his anti-corruption campaigns do changed a lot,this is what matters to our people,as for who’s gonna be the chairman,we just don’t give a fuck
Long live the Beloved Xi Jin Ping the most fortunate and incompetent leader of China that the free world could wish to have.
That doesnt mean that every single case of "anti corruption" is politically motivated because they are not
The true patriot commissar would quiz soldiers on the Bill of Rights and the constitution
There should be weekly 6 hour long mandatory briefings on the bill of rights / constitution brought to you by your political commissar
That's something the military can quiz soldiers on now. Politics is something else entirely.
it might be things like the "correct" interpretations of the 2nd ammendment or the 14th amendment@@kengrubb these things can easily be political
@BeenGolden Ehm… are you totally unaware that the Chinese use letters and numbers too and don’t just write everything in characters? Just look at a license plate... 🤦♂
Another possibility for the "water" report is that their ballistic missiles are fueled with kerosene.
I have no trouble believing that a General would sell regular kerosene ($2 per gallon) to the rocket force as rocket grade kerosene (about $100 per gallon)
One of the reasons rocket grade kerosene is so expensive is they remove every trace of water , because it would damage the engines.
So if you have regular jet fuel or kerosene sitting in ballistic missiles , or the fueling systems for those missiles , you have a massive and very expensive problem to fix.
Perun did a great video on this as well which went into great depth if you want more background. Keep up the good work Cappy.
''Crappy'' lol...
@@Balrog2005 Damned predictive text....
@@eldridgep2That was I thought. Just some laughs, no arm done.
haha word for word what I said at the end of the video
anybody remember 9/10/2001..?
This channel has become my favorite source of information about the world's militaries. I don't know how you dig up so much info, but you deserve the subs.
A few years ago, NORINCO sent some wheeled armored vehicles to be tested by the Argentine Army, they were supposed to be amphibious and in the first test in a swamp they sank, the exhaust pipe heated the doors and they did not close properly, apart from that they couldn't touch each other. They were supposed to be demonstration vehicles, with better quality than the standard ones. It was learned that the materials were of poorer quality because the middle managers were profiting from the company.
There's quite the gap in your story, here. How was it learned that the middle managers were profiting from the company? Why should demonstration vehicles be a better quality than the standard ones? What the hell is 'NORINCO'?
Don't quit your day job to become a storyteller.
@ridethecurve55 That’s a lot of critiquing on a UA-cam comment there bud. It doesn’t matter how the middle managers were found, and it’s pretty self explanatory to anyone with a greater than childlike intellect why you would want your demonstration product to be the best possible version.
Btw, if you don’t know what norinco is that’s a you issue because it’s mentioned in the video and many other (there’s also the fact that Google exists and the context clearly states it’s a group that sells weapons)
@@mcarrowtime7095 Yea but how do you know this is true? I've been working with some UAV for the military in north america. and I can tell you that quality is bad, why because most of demonstration are rushed in development. and finally when you try to demonstrate multiple launch or autonomous, it actually most of the time failed.
Example of the work I was doing was you are supposed to remote guiding your UAV with long range distance up to 10 km... during the final phase testing, range was 500m...
Demonstration always less quality and less capable than final product. as most of project, it's always under estimate, under staff and sold too much!!.
Here, people just try to discredit China. Why do we always talk about China? here corruption is everywhere. Have never seen any report on Corruption of US.
50 billions of $ sent to Ukraine and Ukrainian general admit that they have received only about 20billions of weapon.. where's the rest? Someone should definitively do a report on this.. but strangly, this never happen, but gosh we know everyting about Russia and China.. when video always focus on some countries specifically, you know it's rigged..
So, they were made in china is what you're saying
@@geektechpow4537I'm sure your experience at a western private defense contractor is 100% analogous to a Chinese state run defense contractor. definitely couldn't be different.
The new version of Chinese missiles are called: Dong Perrier, Dong Evian, Dong Aquafina😊 They come in different sizes: Big, Bigger, Biggest!
Hahaha, that's hilarious, bro!
Did anybody notice later when Compton was playing darts they were wagering cigarette packs instead of money? I always loved that little detail
An uncle said tins of peaches and pineapple were very popular
USA too. A recent case. A retired four-star US Navy admiral has been arrested on allegations that he agreed to award a government contract to a company in exchange for a future job with the firm.
At 6:04
Rocket fuel to cook hot pot....
During the Vietnam conflict, US soldiers would sometimes use C-4 plastic explosives to cook things with. C-4 is pretty stable, it burns that does not explode when you put it in a fire.
The MythBusters did a myth on this one time....
The Mythbusters were the GOAT.
@@ShitEatingGoblin42069
They were also totally awesome 😎 and totally tubular!!
That was extremely rare when there was literally nothing else dry enough
How long does this lie going to last........ Military rocket fuel are highly toxic chemical, those people even need to wear protection suit before filling up the rock. How is this possible anyone believe they use the highly toxic chemical to cook food???
@@kameronjones7139oh? so like in a really wet rainy jungle?
Corruption is like a lottery ticket. At some point in time, everybody expects to win a little corruption.
Corruption is the real killer everyone across the board take a little hear and there fudged a little here and there embellish the report here and there you end up with a highly polished golden turd it looks like gold but actually full of shit and if you let it go to far the polish golden turd might even be mistaken as real gold by even people with the best of intention and highest authority and used as such until it hits the fan and and show it self as the shit it really is.
thank you, Military Mark Robison, you are our greatest information officer.
Like that shout out to Perun and Sandboxx. Those along with T&P continue to pump out consistently good work.
They're a bit too pro west for my taste but they do put out quality content
agreed
ooh Perun came out with a new video too
@@Nero-Caesar Perun is OK, he speaks with figures and very systematically. That spectacled rat on Sandboxx is another story.
It’s always nice to come home from school and watch on of your “newest” videos.
Excellent shoutouts to Perun and Sandboxx. Both awesome channels!
As always excellent video, and thank you for mentioning two of my favorite UA-camrs
Another excellent video, Cappy. We, the spare parts army, salute you! 🫡
In related news, "Rocketman" has shot to #1 during the CCP karaoke nights.
There's no way to truly know what's up because their art of war says "appear weak when you are strong".
underrated comment
Not that weak.....
Except you could look at how the Soviet union was a complete nightmare strategic wise because of all the purging and corruption interfering with the military’s mobilization
Their art of war isn’t secret no more since Sun Tzu is known globally
@@licktin1091 it can still work ig.
“US intelligence thinks Chinese corruption is so bad that missile is filled with water”Good to see US intelligence on China doesn’t even understand Chinese language properly😂
If you're using substandard fuel on a rocket designed to break the sound barrier it might as well bec😅
@@shanut8139 what wistful thinking is this, those missile performed well in tests, and US intelligence tracked those tests.
Shout out to you @ Task& Purpose! For refering towards Perun and Sandbox! Respect, not all do it!
We should all give Cappy a round of applause. He really tried with those pronunciations 👏
I came here to say that. @17:25 "10 million YON". I assume this is an attempt to throw out future AI overlords. Well played!
Man, your videos are some of the best around, you keep an unbiased opinion and analyse all of the facts, news, leaks and put everything in one. Good job!
unbiased he says!! lmao!
@@two2truths As far as am concerned, yes.
Do point out where he's being so obviously biased that you have to laugh.
19:59 No no no…. The best military buzzword is Tactical! Not lethality 😂 you yourself have pointed out how easy it is to add tactical to anything and make it sound better.
Like this tactical comment for instance, or your tactical merch sale, tactical word play, tactical humor…. All things I love about your channel! Thanks for the information and the laughs!
Modularity and "force multipler" might actually beat out tactical and Lethality now that I think about it
You forgot ‘tactical modularity!’
Edit: doh
Same with strategic 😅
FINALLY! It's good to hear someone say that we don't understand China as much as we need to. Conflicts hinge on understanding others. Foe or friend...
As someone from Mainland China, corruption is never an issue for any Chinese official, military or not. everyone is corrupt in China, if you do not participate in the circle, nobody will promote you to an official position, from low rank to high rank. for the Chinese, talk about controlling your subordinates, it is always easier, or you will feel safer when you know your subordinary officer has some dirt in your hand, that is the result of a thousand years of internal bureaucracy development, nobody in this world masters this better than Chinese. and China society is officer-base society, which means you social status is always judged by how high the rank of your government official position is, within this society, everyone is corrupt, absolutely. all these corruption charges are just excuses to remove political in-fighting losers.xi himself has the mindset of the normal Chinese emperor, which really enjoy his official in-fighting, this is a way to show his political controlling ability. it is very difficult for non-Chinese to understand, there are tons of books in China telling you how to become a "good" officer, and how to control your subordinates. all these aside, it doesn't mean the PLA is not willing to fight to defend their social status, aka their official status, which is protection. the worst thing is not that you got demoted, it is after your officer status drops, you and your family will be erased by your political enemy. so when you look at news about Chinese officials, one key thing is not who got demoted, it is who got kicked out of the party, that is a sentence for this dude never has a chance to come back.
Exactly this, I have read enough books to understand how China works, of course first hand experience is something I am lacking but this is that case. To understand that you have to felt it on your own, like we did in Eastern Europe.
Everyone is corrupted so that when it is time to purge one faction it is easier to play corruption card for society.
West do not understand how it works as there is money myth, especially in US.
In the same way we would find what true Roman was super strange to ours todays concept.
Is it right for the US military to openly be greedy for money? A $300000 mug, a $500000 toilet, a $300000 goat! Who is the investigator who died on the plane 🤡
dont use ur dirty mind to judge everyone😅
Are you from Taiwan?
Corruption in the Chinese military? That's not "shocking," that's Tuesday.😂
Your channel is quickly becoming my favorite on UA-cam. Appreciate the quality content my man
He's an average infantryman ++
Good briefing, Cappy. Let me say that during my time in the service and more importantly selling high-tech to the Pentagon, civilian agencies and contractors like Raytheon, Locked and Boeing, I never once saw even a hint of corruption. Cussedness and stupidity, sure, but not corruption.
The corruption is baked into the procurement process. Look at what's going on with the USPS and replacing Northrop Grumman LLV. Can't go purchase a already mass produced vehicle with built in economy of scale. Gotta bid for it, pay for prototypes from multiple bidders.... etc.
Why the need for corruption when they make more than Midas? They have in effect corrupted the playing ground upon which they profit.
And why would you? If those companies pay great salaries to their workers and executives and their clients are not exactly the people you want to screw around with. Unlike China we in the West have a free(if not wish we could punch them in the face) media who would just “love” a story about some defense contractor screwing over the government. The recent Boeing plane door debacle is a perfect example. What China handles, if they even do, in the shadows we shine spot lights on for the world to see. The last thing any of these companies want is for their reputations to take a major hit.
@@rainbowsixODSTAnd they can pay their workers so much money because they sell so many weapons! What China need to do is to go and start more wars so they use more weapons to expose the corruption. To be fair though, the only reason the Boeing scandle was only publicised so widely was because it benefitted Airbus, in fact the first articles were publicised by corporations with close links to Airbus
Explain the corners boeing cut which resulted in the cough cough aircraft door being blown off midflight? Please, if you don't think there is corruption in America doesn't mean there isn't any. Corruption is everywhere.
💣 Shocking revelations! A stark reminder of the importance of integrity and accountability. 🚔🔍
Complicated subject with many players: well done!
I’m no card player at all, literally except for solitaire and maybe go-fish, but I often wondered why it was such a big deal to be wary of mixing gambling with the military (or any similarly hierarchical institution). That quote about ‘never putting oneself in the position of taking from your men’ was basically an epiphany for me. Thnx, brother.
I was hoping for a video like this. Thank you.
It's not a misstranslation, the China show's laowhy86 and serpentza confirmed the translation as they both speak fluent mandarin and live a combined total of 25 years...
Fellow Lw and SZa viewer, nice.
@user-zu1ht4ji2m what you mean to say, is that the source could be lying. sometimes sources make stuff up in intel world, to gain favors. and even if the source is not lying, then its about how farspread the practice is. and even if its widespread practice, have they already fixed it by re-checking all missiles and changed the practices.
As an NCO in 🇦🇫, I had to DIRECT ORDER one of my troops, he was staying until “no longer required” he was told by buddies, 1-2 days not weeks.
I was in no mood, and came aboard him hard. He was very very pissed off when I left. he was back to KAF days before I was…5 weeks.
Canadians Army Vet
Direct Order Aye? I do get what you say, but Stating "Direct Orders" is very inline with this report. Figures of speech and facts are not the same. But i do Understand you. SF!
@@jesuscorrea5513 He misunderstood how long he was required. Not 18 hours but weeks
Thank you for the excellent commentary. It is comprehensive, historically based, and clear.
Thank you for your serious research
During my 14 years in China, I met a formidable obstacle in all my endeavours: endemci sky-high corruption. One example: I wanted to realise a large-scale socio-economic project in sustainable farming. But when the official told me, you can go ahead, but you need to pay me 70% of the investment money (total amount: 100 million Yuan), I with regret gave up my project, and my wife, who is Chinese did not get angry about it. I became aware that there will be not enough money left to correctly remunerate the many people involved in the project (mostly farmers) and not enough money to buy good diverse quality seed and agricultural tools (it was intended to be a permaculture project).
Thanks for sharing Cappy
I was a U.S. Missile Launch Officer. Nuclear alert missiles are solid fueled. Liquid fuels would have to be loaded right before launch. That’s a very bad idea due to minutes being the difference between a launched rocket and one destroyed in its silo by the enemy!
Ya, the Atlas and the Titan…although wasn’t the fuel in the Titan stable enough to be in the tanks for some time, while on alert? Back in the golden age of defense budgets? :)
“To fill with water” doesn’t literally mean that it’s filled with water.
It means that it’s filled with a cheaper fuel than it normally takes.
To fill with water means to fill with a “cheaper and more accessible” thing.
I’ve been using an old school safety razor with Feather blades my entire adult life. That Henson looks like a high quality setup
The PLA's formation marching is amazing. I hope they spend all their time perfecting their marches rather than their actual combat skills.
贵国军队赢了解放军吗？ Rookie chickens have no say.🐒
Marching skills aren't difficult to master, not in my experience..I'm also ex army, and I know that it is not a manifestation of espirit d corp per se. I say that because my platoon got perfect marks in parade marching and top score in battalion rankings even though we almost had a race riot at the end of our training.
Marching skills ain't sh*t kappy, but your experience may be different from mine, LOL😅
Only the best people can participate in the military parade😂😂
For shaving, I use the inexpensive 3 blade throw aways. they work best for me & I don’t change the blade ++ they do last quite awhile.
A friend of mine (Chinese American who does high end collectible business in China) was told of a meeting (this was 10-15 years ago where a bunch of generals were gifted BMWs loaded with gold. So much gold in fact that the cars would sag under the weight... Again, how true the story is I do not know and how much has changed? Not sure. But graft in the Chinese military is a huge issue
"We reserve that for getting our kids into college" 😂 well done
Show me the percentage of US Generals or Admirals who come from poor backgrounds. I was hard-pressed to find a single one. It's why I didn't become an officer after many generations of my family being enlisted. It's a rigged system where the rich command the poor to risk their lives for them.
Guanxi isn't just Chinese, as America is rife with it too; we call it "networking."
Love the ethics lesson in this video @929 seconds, I remember that scene from "Band of Brothers", it was intense. Thanks!
If it hasn’t been said yet…you went to “basic combat training” NOT “boot camp” at Fort Benning. WTF
Also, this has been one of your best documentaries ever.
Considering their infrastructure won’t last more than 10 years, it’s not out of the realm of possibility that the missiles IS filled with water.
Corruption works just the same. Get elected to an office paying 140K a year and in 4 years your worth 3 million.
dig the shout outs, perun's videos are long but they are also great for leaving in the background while you do something else (like... speedrunning cupcake?)
I'm willing to bet the corruption is a lot worse than we think.
Your programs are excellent... I've already watched so many, I lost count! 😶
I've read somewhere else that "filled with water" is an Idiom for anything that got filled with a sub-par stuff. So the rockets are fueled...with something that even burns but I wouldn't take any bets on whether or not a particular missile can make max range... or even half range, or doesn't explode during launch.
Not shocking. Literally nobody is surprised.
The Russian and Americans underestimated the tenacity of the Afghans. The Russians clearly underestimated the Ukrainians.
I met a member of the Bell family of helicopter fame, who enjoyed a lengthy career in military procurement here in the USA.
He garnered tens of millions of dollars in illegal kickbacks. Hence we must confront the fact that our system of full of corruption.
the "jump to conclusions" reference was great
India has entered the chat.
"So you all remember the Actual Slap Fight on the border right...?"
Great follow up. The mis-translation was quickly picked up on in China focused podcasts. Never rely on google translate.
Can't be worse than our Military Corruption.
What do you call charging $600.00 for a toilet seat if not corruption.
Let's be honest, if MacArthur had been allowed to drop that [UA-cam CENSORSHIP!] on [UA-cam CENSORSHIP!], it would simply be called "Korea" today, much to Ukraine's (and the world at large) relief.
UA-cam Censorship check number NINE (9!!!). YOUR history is being CENSORED!
The Pentagon lost $802 Billion.
CHINA: “hold my rice-wine”
Wonderful review, however the missiles that you describe, the DF-5B uses a storable liquid propellent/oxidizer combination similar to the Titan II series. That would be hydrazine/nitrogen tetroxide.
Great video. Happy to send Help with the pronunciation of the Chinese names.
They may beat us with quantity, not quality. Unless our quality is WAAAY better. Time will tell.
7:02 When I heard "cerebral haemorrhage", I was expecting that it meant he was bludgeoned to death, not committed suicide.
@Taskandpurpose I just graduated from fort benning! Since you were infantry I’m assuming you went to sand hill!! I’m 19K I went to 1-81 armored brigade where harmony church and brave rifle field is!!
As a leftist, I really appreciate your willingness to be rational about China. I don't like the country and a lot of what they do but a lot of people tend to give completely biased and dumb information.
Water instead of fuel sounds like a figure of speech we would use here, like “shit for brain” or something alike.
An ultrapoliticized officers class in a huge army that is not actually at war with anyone will cause this problem over and over again. They just have too much free time, no real work, and too many chances for corruption
The Amount of Medals they have on. They can be Defeated with a Magnet...
Why is it that I never payed attention to history or global issues in high school, but now I'm always looking at it
Because if you had learned it back in high school, the info would have been obsolete and thus incorrect today. You subliminally chose to not waste your time back then, and learn it when it was more accurate and relevant (today). LOL
@@ridethecurve55I’m sticking with your idea.
Really cool you addressed their cultural emphasis of relationships over roles.
In my company, where we have also Chinese clients, we explicitly trained to find our equivalent in their Org and make friends, as that what THEY expect.
Real awesome to see an American give attention to other cultures point of view!!
So wise , Thank You .
Odd, how just throwing an aussie accent makes Death by PowerPoint more pleasing.
Great video and glad to see the shout out to Perun! Hopefully you can collaborate one day.
surprisingly balanced. kudos on a good informative episode.
A perfect opportunity to clean up the leadership (and the rank & file) before serious military action - like Taiwan? In any case, I do appreciate your videos, they always give me a thoughtful perspective to consider.
The United States is not qualified to discuss military corruption
my face was shaved with a rock by my drill sgt in Fort Benning. It only took one time of that happening for me to keep a close eye on my Five oclock shadow.
Task & Purpose: China has a corruption problem.
US defense contractors: Amateurs.
Not quite at chinese military owned businesses level but a reminder that Lockheed Martin has a Korean Streetware line
The names of all these officers got me rolling. It feels like im watching an episode of Key and Peel.
They do use kerosene-oxygen rockets. The kerosene can be displaced from the rocket by adding water so the kerosene can be used as cooking fuel.
Point of order: GEN McChrystal did not speak ill of the POTUS to the media. The media wrote a story based on comments from his staff about his true feelings. It was second hand info Rolling Stone printed as quotes.
The reporter later un-alived himself in spectacular fashion.
Corruption is a global problem, but I think that it thrives in authoritarian, head-to-bottom hierarchical regimes.