>”When I was in the military, we would … drain fuel from aircraft fuel tanks for cooking, which burns green and has no smell at all.”
For the first few sentences I thought the title was just being metaphoric. But I guess they really meant it. I’m a bit incredulous because this is just a little too outrageous. I mean how much is oil for cooking
US State media really out here trying to see how gullible readers are lol
Gas and fuel are not expensive in China. Anyone can buy one of those electric hotpot plates.
Embarrassing! Wow!
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan moment
An unsubstantiated opinion piece from Radio Free Asia… Surely we can believe it?
Who the hell cares? Dont you guys want china to be peaceful and shit? Then why you bashing them for this? Is it better they use the jet fuel to fuel airforce missions?
And the soviets used to drink the aircraft coolent.
Dead serious.
You know reddit has gone to shit when this is turning up in my home feed
Well, a good hotpot is to die for
As pathetic as this might sound, is there an Air Force on earth that isn’t above this? Even in the American military you hear about some guys doing goofy shit like this.
Make hotpot, not war!
You think that’s bad. You should look into all the corruption related to the U.S. military budget. Last I heard they weren’t able to pass their audits for several years now. Everyone is on on the take. Lock em all up!!
this smells like propaganda. Oh, our mortal enemy is an incompetent clod? Are they also the most dangerous predator we have ever faced and their very existence is a threat to ours? Sounds like some trumpian orwellian (trum-wellian?) bs.
In ‘Nam we sometimes took the C-4 out of Claymore mines and used it to cook with. Kinda like Sterno. It was ok as long as you didn’t bang on it with a spoon or something.
Is this a big deal? Our military use to use c4 to warm food
Ok, got to hand it to grunts. When it comes to chow, they find inventive ways to make due with what they have. UNtil a copy weeks later when cancer kicks in. Or if that is how they were found out as they were all reporting as being sick and every single case was cancer.
Honestly, this is just kind of hilarious ingenuity. It amounts to “I want hot soup, and I’ve got this free fuel that burns really clean and doesn’t smell… A HA!”
Beyond that, just like the US military, there’s a lot of budgetary waste and corruption, but I think we could have guessed that fairly easily.
Us sailors used to steal fuel out of torpedos I believe it was, and mix it with pineapple juice. It became so popular that they had to start mixing poison in with the fuel to stop people from drinking it. And they kept drinking it and got sick.
Story by Radio Free Asia…. That’s credibility right down the sink.
Rocket fuel combusts explosively because they have to generate a great deal of gases very quickly for thrust. The fuel will not be able to produce the slow, gradual heat that cooking requires.
Tell me again to believe his story if the guy is missing 3 fingers and an eye.
*Shrugs* Some people like their hotpots especially hot, I guess 😉
My dad told me they would burn small pea sized balls of C4 to heat up water and rations in Vietnam. Of course, showing guys that trick could make for a [great prank](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWbCuqdYP58).
Sounds pretty baller to me, I’ll give them that.
Not gonna lie, I read it so fast it first appeared as chinas Air Force burned mussel fuel to make hot-pocket
Reminds me of people in the developing world using transformer oil to deep fry chicken
Hot pot is pretty damn good!!
Following the Doolittle raid, most of the bombers crashlanded in inland China. One of the crews noticed that the local civilians were siphoning fuel out of the crashed plane and warned them that it was dangerous and they should return it. The Chinese villages swore up and down that they didn’t take anything, and that night, eight huts caught fire.
Mmm understandable can’t blame them, hotpot is deeeelicious!
There’s a hilarious “arms race” between submariners and the US navy, the submariners attempting to drink torpedo fuel, and the navy trying to stop them.
China makes cheap crap that falls apart. Not really a surprise it carried over to the military.
“Your ailment is not service related”
In fairness, hotpot is freekn awesome!!
The K in KC-135 is kerosene. Jet fuel is basically kerosene. Hell, spacex uses kerosene 🤷♂️
With some of the horrible military rations they have I don’t blame them
Seems like standard pilot survival training.
Always wondered what the secret to General Tso chicken was.
As described they used solid fuel to keep a pot warm, which doesn’t make sense, solid propellant fuel burns very aggressively it would be entirely unsuitable for this purpose.
Hot pot is great so it’s worth it.
As a westerner who has visited China numerous times, I have observed that hotpot in China is exceptional and in general, miscellaneous chemical exposure seems to be an accepted part of daily life.
A very long time ago a small part of my job was keeping track of intel on the readiness of a QRF aircraft wing at a particular soviet air base. At one point our readiness estimate for the wing was at less than 30% because the deicer they were using was alcohol based and drinkable with only a small chance of going blind. Multiply sourced intel indicated they couldn’t keep enough of it stocked for the wing because they were drinking it prodigiously.
It’s been a long time since China has gone to war. I think they are going to perform about as poorly as Russia has in Ukraine the next time they want to pick a fight.
My grandpa used to tell me about ‘Torpedo Juice’
Basically using the 180 proof alcohol fuel and a mixer like pineapple juice.
Worth it. Hot pot is damn good
People think these idiotic fucks have the capacity to invade Taiwan. They will do as good a job as the Russians are doing in Ukraine.
And to think all I’m worried about is microplastics in my water
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>”When I was in the military, we would … drain fuel from aircraft fuel tanks for cooking, which burns green and has no smell at all.”
For the first few sentences I thought the title was just being metaphoric. But I guess they really meant it. I’m a bit incredulous because this is just a little too outrageous. I mean how much is oil for cooking
US State media really out here trying to see how gullible readers are lol
Gas and fuel are not expensive in China. Anyone can buy one of those electric hotpot plates.
Embarrassing! Wow!
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan moment
An unsubstantiated opinion piece from Radio Free Asia… Surely we can believe it?
Reminds me of this great video on Soviets drinking aircraft electronics cooling alcohol for booze https://youtu.be/5xygj1MOIdo?si=IDLKuWDB865xa9Fc
Soldiers will burn anything that they can cook with if they don’t have any other options and want hot food.
“*Hypergolic hotdogs practically cook themselves*” ^tm
Who the hell cares? Dont you guys want china to be peaceful and shit? Then why you bashing them for this? Is it better they use the jet fuel to fuel airforce missions?
Common commie L
[working in tandem with The Afghanistan RPG fishing team.](https://youtu.be/Lk6Puz_sdts?si=N5fMD-XxuybCta3E)
And the soviets used to drink the aircraft coolent.
Dead serious.
You know reddit has gone to shit when this is turning up in my home feed
Well, a good hotpot is to die for
As pathetic as this might sound, is there an Air Force on earth that isn’t above this? Even in the American military you hear about some guys doing goofy shit like this.
Make hotpot, not war!
You think that’s bad. You should look into all the corruption related to the U.S. military budget. Last I heard they weren’t able to pass their audits for several years now. Everyone is on on the take. Lock em all up!!
If anyone else wondered what solid missile fuel looks like: [What Is Solid Rocket Fuel?](https://headedforspace.com/what-is-solid-rocket-fuel/)
this smells like propaganda. Oh, our mortal enemy is an incompetent clod? Are they also the most dangerous predator we have ever faced and their very existence is a threat to ours? Sounds like some trumpian orwellian (trum-wellian?) bs.
In ‘Nam we sometimes took the C-4 out of Claymore mines and used it to cook with. Kinda like Sterno. It was ok as long as you didn’t bang on it with a spoon or something.
Is this a big deal? Our military use to use c4 to warm food
Ok, got to hand it to grunts. When it comes to chow, they find inventive ways to make due with what they have. UNtil a copy weeks later when cancer kicks in. Or if that is how they were found out as they were all reporting as being sick and every single case was cancer.
Honestly, this is just kind of hilarious ingenuity. It amounts to “I want hot soup, and I’ve got this free fuel that burns really clean and doesn’t smell… A HA!”
Beyond that, just like the US military, there’s a lot of budgetary waste and corruption, but I think we could have guessed that fairly easily.
Us sailors used to steal fuel out of torpedos I believe it was, and mix it with pineapple juice. It became so popular that they had to start mixing poison in with the fuel to stop people from drinking it. And they kept drinking it and got sick.
Story by Radio Free Asia…. That’s credibility right down the sink.
Rocket fuel combusts explosively because they have to generate a great deal of gases very quickly for thrust. The fuel will not be able to produce the slow, gradual heat that cooking requires.
Tell me again to believe his story if the guy is missing 3 fingers and an eye.
*Shrugs* Some people like their hotpots especially hot, I guess 😉
My dad told me they would burn small pea sized balls of C4 to heat up water and rations in Vietnam. Of course, showing guys that trick could make for a [great prank](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWbCuqdYP58).
Sounds pretty baller to me, I’ll give them that.
Not gonna lie, I read it so fast it first appeared as chinas Air Force burned mussel fuel to make hot-pocket
Reminds me of people in the developing world using transformer oil to deep fry chicken
Hot pot is pretty damn good!!
Following the Doolittle raid, most of the bombers crashlanded in inland China. One of the crews noticed that the local civilians were siphoning fuel out of the crashed plane and warned them that it was dangerous and they should return it. The Chinese villages swore up and down that they didn’t take anything, and that night, eight huts caught fire.
Mmm understandable can’t blame them, hotpot is deeeelicious!
There’s a hilarious “arms race” between submariners and the US navy, the submariners attempting to drink torpedo fuel, and the navy trying to stop them.
It’s a great read:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torpedo_juice
China makes cheap crap that falls apart. Not really a surprise it carried over to the military.
“Your ailment is not service related”
In fairness, hotpot is freekn awesome!!
The K in KC-135 is kerosene. Jet fuel is basically kerosene. Hell, spacex uses kerosene 🤷♂️
With some of the horrible military rations they have I don’t blame them
Seems like standard pilot survival training.
Always wondered what the secret to General Tso chicken was.
As described they used solid fuel to keep a pot warm, which doesn’t make sense, solid propellant fuel burns very aggressively it would be entirely unsuitable for this purpose.
Hot pot is great so it’s worth it.
As a westerner who has visited China numerous times, I have observed that hotpot in China is exceptional and in general, miscellaneous chemical exposure seems to be an accepted part of daily life.
A very long time ago a small part of my job was keeping track of intel on the readiness of a QRF aircraft wing at a particular soviet air base. At one point our readiness estimate for the wing was at less than 30% because the deicer they were using was alcohol based and drinkable with only a small chance of going blind. Multiply sourced intel indicated they couldn’t keep enough of it stocked for the wing because they were drinking it prodigiously.
It’s been a long time since China has gone to war. I think they are going to perform about as poorly as Russia has in Ukraine the next time they want to pick a fight.
My grandpa used to tell me about ‘Torpedo Juice’
Basically using the 180 proof alcohol fuel and a mixer like pineapple juice.
Worth it. Hot pot is damn good
People think these idiotic fucks have the capacity to invade Taiwan. They will do as good a job as the Russians are doing in Ukraine.
And to think all I’m worried about is microplastics in my water