>The Sino-Indian border along the Himalayas is guarded by soldiers using only melee weapons >Both sides mostly use riot shields and sticks, or really rusty bladed weapons>When the odd conflict breaks out, most casualties occur when soldiers push the enemy off cliffs/into rushing waters where they drownIt's weird that the military doesn't give their soldiers actual melee weaponry like swords and spears. How would you arm them?
>>65189903>It's weird that the military doesn't give their soldiers actual melee weaponry like swords and spears.Dawg, that’s the point. Both sides want to keep casualties, both death and injury, low so that some local flare up doesn’t spiral into a war. If you give the soldiers anything better than clubs and those shitty spears then the odds of a high casualty fight begins to rise.
>>65189903If I were the Indians I'd ditch the troops and just leave a couple industrial lathes and escalators up in those mountain valleys and see if that thins out the Chinese for starters. Besides that, spears tend to be the way to go for most situations, especially if you don't want to devote too much time to larp training.
>>65189924The machines would be dismantled and sold for scrap and also there would be shit everywhere
>>65189922Yeah but it'd be awesome to see how organized melee combat actually works, and not derive knowledge solely from old historical accounts.
>>65189903The real question is how do we make it a sport?
>>65189945Simple, just have a guard train, the Indians will throw themselves under the train.
>>65189922Why don't they just 'not' be primitive retards in the first place?
>>65189960Admittedly it would be cool.>>65190004We both know why.
>>65189903Big stick like a half staff or if your chinse those iron hand staffs that be cool. I don't think the riot shield would be as effective. But I wouldn't know if anyone up there is throwing rocks.
>>65189903>How would you arm them?With guns, because I'm not retarded and care aboutwhether my troops are at risk of needlessly dying over a minor border dispute. But India is retarded and China doesn't care how many boots get bonked holding a shitty pass.Following the actual thread theme, tower shields and pikes for front line, mix of maces and broadswords for the midline, cheap bows with game arrows for the rear.
>>65189903The Pajeetian army should fully commit to the cult of Nurgle. They should smear their own and/or cow feces on the naked bodies, shields and weapons. They should forbid bathing or using toilets (as usual) and eat only carrion and roadkill (no brushing of teeth). This will scare away and weaken the Cathay soldiers within a 50 meters radius.
>>65189903>why noguns?methinks that since they're surrounded by tall rocks, and loud boom booms would make said tall rocks fall over their heads.
>>65189903>How would you arm them?Nukes.
some ukranian should teach the chinese how to drone so they can hunt down jeets using their vast drone production.>but india noooksjeets cant into rocket science or nuclear science, they sunk their submarine by leaving a hatch open
Why don't the bugmen and the poopeople just do what civilised countries do in these disputes, each build fortifications on their turf and have the disputed border as a DMZInstead of these retarded playground scuffles toy weapons where they "aren't really" fighting but people still invariably get hurt.
>>65191921Didn't the chinese have submarines sink as well? Both so much alike.
>>65191939that yard doesn't make SSN's
>>65191921If you turn on a radar system and focus it on a soldier, would they melt?
>>65189903China should have a temporary mercenary program so I can spend the summer months beating the shit out of jeets. I bet many would join.
>>65191936A fortification back on what is indisputably "your turf" doesn't do anything for you and if you don't go out and patrol the disputed area you're basically ceding it to the other side.It's some of the hardest-to-reach and inhospitable land on the planet. Neither side really cares about it, both sides acknowledge that there's no one "objectively correct" border that the other is purposefully trying to cross to steal land, but neither side is willing to just give in to the other's territorial claims. So they're stuck fighting over land that neither side really thinks is worth fighting over. It's not worth an ever-escalating series of battles that might see nukes being thrown at each other, the land is fucking worthless and both sides know it. With both sides being able to calculate the absence of worth and the pointlessness of taking a cost over it, you have the strangest thing ever: a war with tribalist hormones taken out on the strategic level. You still have conservative rednecks in the field bonking each other with sticks due to simian racial hatred and territorial greed, but those hormonal motivations aren't being treated as valid by the leadership. The fight is performative.
>>65189960India vs China would tell us nothing about the proper functioning of any weapons system anon.
>>65193930Thanks for the info, chang, off to gulag you go now.
>>65190004Because the leopard can't change his shorts.
>>65189903>It's weird that the military doesn't give their soldiers actual melee weaponryNeither side cares about casualties and they just want to avoid escalation with a nuclear power.Sure you could give your guys spears and train them on shield walls but the other side will counter that with small arms which will be countered with heavy arms etc.It's more eastern posturing than a real conflict and both sides want to keep it that way.
