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		revax on Feb 27, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Documenting equipment losses during the 2022 Russi... According to the name of the icon, it's the flag of the Soviet Union, not China. Edit: I would guess it's labelled Soviet when it's unclear which side the equipment come from.

enkid on Feb 27, 2022 | [–]

Russia and Ukraine still use a lot of equipment that was built when the USSR was a single entity.

wooptoo on Feb 27, 2022 | | [–]

Those are definitely soviet from the naming scheme. The Chinese use a completely different naming scheme

https://man.fas.org/dod-101/sys/land/row/index.html

userbinator on Feb 27, 2022 | [–]

They are indeed quite similar from a distance:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_china

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