[quote=Shadowfall]Albeit, I've to admit... I've no idea about modern warframe and might mess around, acidentally, in such an rp...
[/quote]

I guess that gives an excuse for a ridiculously expanded semi-fictional modern history of combat. Er... "Alternate History".
-Hopefully you're aware there was a thing called the Vietnam war, the Cold War, and the Soviet-Afghan war; even if only through cinema.
--Although it is helpful to know China/Russia had these border-clashes that escalated to battalion-level skirmishes, the general attitudes of the respective militaries, and the Iran-Contra affair.

The technology, how it's used, and what its called is a bit complicated[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uVbDIyjEk8](Type-62 tank 008 is a bit of a troll[/url], IRL, [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_3peM4yoa4]it suffered pretty badly in Vietnam[/url]...), but well... war... war never really changes.
-But long story short, the japanese-sino conflicts, the civil-wars, and Russia's (and later Vietnam's) fall-from-grace in China's eyes are an often untold complication of the Cold-War. But only Nixon could go to China, and hope to do any good for US-Russian relations in the process.

[url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087985/quotes?item=qt0319079]1984 is picked because a lil thing called Chernobyl kinda irradiated Russia's entire grain-belt[/url]
-Funny how we didn't expect it to ever be the other way around back then...