Boxer Rebellion

>>32684266
sorry OP, looks like no one seems to care about this exciting time...please feel free to try again.

>>32684578
shame, its such a neat time

>attempt to have nationalist revolt to expel foreign powers
>most of your guys don't even have guns, just swords
>promote Liberia-tier "you are invincible and immune to bullets" superstition among your ranks
>the only time your forces ever perform effectively is when they're slaughtering and sometimes eating your own civilians
China never gets old.

>>32685889
we saw many of these again in the korean war...being used against us.

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Ah, good times.

>>32686138
stylish

>>32687552
russian uniforms looked so much better back then, fucking bolshevieks

>>32686159
how is it in every picture of indians there is always poo in the streets

>>32684266
Why was it actually called the boxer rebellion? I heard way back when I was in high school that it was because the Chinese beat the shit of westerners wirh kung fu and the westerners didn't know it was kung fu so they called it boxing. This sounds far fetched to me though.

>>32688853
>“Boxers” was a name that foreigners gave to a Chinese secret society known as the Yihequan (“Righteous and Harmonious Fists”).

>>32684266
Almost no one knows about this war.

Its not taught in American secondary school, so it's not something we're likely to opine on.

>>32688933
>Millenials
damn the US school system sucks

>>32688955
Calculus < chink history

>>32688955
>>32688961
according to you that is.

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lets get some P L A I N S I N D I A N W A R S up in here

>>32686027
I always remember reading about that in school and wondering what the troops were thinking when people started to die

how seriously did they take that shit?

>>32688993
well, they couldve charged in and easily overwhelmed the legation troops but didnt, so probably not well

>>32686138
Honestly this reminds me of my grandmother shitting on modern fashion one day. God bless her soul.
Before she passed she remembered seeing something on tv about those parachute sweatpants. Not the average ones, the really swanky fashion ones that are just overly sized and look ridiculous. She said that's what 80 year old village ladies in the mountains of Albania wore while working grain fields and milking cows and goats. She was dumbfounded that people were paying hundreds of dollars for what an entire region of the world considered peasant cloths.

>>32688961
Calculus is useless for most people.

>>32688961
>His school doesn't teach both

Is math and history too much for your brain?

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>>32689051
>being able to combine Math reasoning and second tier algebra is useless to most people in a county where ALL industries require counting and no oversight yet high accountability

Why did 90% of the world's land mass have to foster such shit individuals.

>>32686024
good lord those are some massive firearms.

those made for wall/city defense/ "sniping" id assume?

>>32689490
Maybe to keep those city Mongolians out.

>>32689500
>city Mongolians
isnt that the one place you wouldn't expect to find them?

>>32689490
no those are regular size, the chinks and their chink guns are just tiny

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>>32689523
I dont believe you.

>>32689490
Yes, the big ones are 19th century BP "wall guns."

>>32689520
Idk making a bad pun, I'd think its to down a armored individual or horse.

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>>32689544
ah, my bad.

i though "jingal" mentioned before was like the unit name or something, not the name of one of the possibly multiple type of guns in the picture.

>"“Jingal” was the name the British gave to both Indian and Chinese rampart guns used from the 1700s up until World War II. The guns were originally muzzle loaders, used in fixed defensive emplacements. They had exceptionally long barrels (60″ or more), and were used to fire off rampart walls as a sort of precision artillery. The very long sight radius gave them better practical accuracy than smaller shoulder rifles, and the large calibers used were effective at long range. "

>"This particular gun is one of the more common types to be found today, a single-shot bolt action in .60 caliber (others were also made in .75 caliber). The gun has a rear sight adjustable for elevation and a dovetail for the missing front sight. The mechanism is a simple interrupted thread at the back of the bolt. The extractor, firing pin, and trigger mechanism are all typical of Mauser type rifles. This rifle most likely dates from the late 1880s or 1890s."

neat, i want one.

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>Nobody has posted the most glorious picture of the boxer rebellion yet

shaking my head to be honest family

Enjoy

>>32689609
>that robot

hah.

Where's the gif of the guy trying to block a cannon with his torso? Pretty sure it's from a movie about the boxer rebellion.

>>32689237
Quick Question.

How do you use radar to get BVR hits, if you go into stealth mode by turning off radar ?

- Genuine question, not sure how these things work.

>>32689621

Wrong thread.

>>32689621
>>32689648
http://www.israelmilitary.net/archive/index.php/t-1084.html

I bet the Sukhoi post SU-27 and J-20 up can do this but haven't got a thing on the F-35

>>32684266
>magnificent war
Just as the highway of death can't be rightfully called a 'battle', neither was this much of a 'war'. More accurately, it was a curbstomp. Then again, it's a Chinese military tradition to lose badly (though the Boxers were technically civilian they had the covert support of the Qing royalty).

If I recall, the real killer for the westerners was disease and heatstroke on account of all the nations essentially competing to get to the capital before the others.

>>32689670

>covert

The Qing literally declared war on "all foreign powers"

It just so happens that Chinese military was split up regionally and most of the regions knew that going to war with 8 colonial powers was complete suicide.

Always some new, I never realized how multi national the boxer rebellion was, italians, indians, frenchs, japanese...

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>>32689237
>/k/
>not just pulling a gun on him

>>32689708

>I didn't realize that one of sides in the war named "The Eight-Nation Alliance" had like, 8 nations in it

Kek

>>32689708
>>32689735

Now for the actual explanation.

This wasn't a war between two countries, this was Chinese people wanting to kill all of the Christians and foreigners.

Imagine if say... Turkey decided to kill all of the foreigners there tomorrow, every nation with citizens or embassies there would attempt to send aid to assist the defence of foriegners, and the most able of the countries (America/NATO/Russia) would launch direct invasions.

>>32686138
Zo zouave! hon hon hon

>>32688961
the only relevant part of chinese history is the opium wars, nationalist china/WWII involvement, and them becoming commies.

classical chinese history can be summed up as "backwards ineffectual nation succumbs to internal corruption and external invasion" on repeat.

>The british and americans are disgusted when they have to eat the horses once food ran low
>The french laugh at their complaints

>>32690832
and everyone laughed at their 100% casualty rate

>>32688993
Ask people in South Africa. Their witch doctors do something similar over there. Although to be honest thats the least crazy thing they do over there if you can believe it.