somehow, yes

you're forgetting 2 important details:
1. one of the helos (a RAH-66 Comanche) kills a JASDF E-767 AWACS by zoom-climbing to altitude and spamming stingers at it (this works)
2. when the helos leave Japan, they are refuelled along the way by a Ohio-class SSBN

mood

'The Kouhu Calamity', resulting from a tragic combination of bad intelligence of the MSS, strategic indifference of the Politburo, and terrible aim on behalf of the PLARF's IRBM force, will drastically change the shape of Chinese history for decades to come #orbatboys

I started studying a degree in international politics in 2016

Part of me is still worried that i've cursed the world in some way...

Getting jump-scared by Multicam Black

internal fit-out's a little different to the current american ones (for example, my MBTs have 3 crew each, and my inf platoons have 3 9-man dismount squads)

Pretty much

Its just dudes being dudes