China....bleeding edge in shovel technology....

Imagine a 100 million chinese troops armed to the teeth with this......we are soo screwed....

I'm gonna get 6!

Don't worry, Blizzard with nerf this to hell in the next patch.

"Shield" That part was so ridiculous it was amazing. I LOVE this video, it just goes to show how beast the Chinese are.

It's impressive yes, but OAR, I mean really ... I could use a book on the end of a stick as an OAR .. that kinda let me down to be honest.

Shield= Awesome
Oar= WTF Lazy.


That shit is awesome. I like when the soldier takes a drink.

How soon are we talking for exports? Father's Day is coming up in the UK in a couple of weeks - an item like this would sell by the god-damned bucket load!

At first, I thought "If Batman had this shovel, he'd solve Gotham City's crime in like 7 minutes!" Then, the guy used a fucking shovel to hammer a nail. How the hell do you do that without smashing your fingers? And I can imagine inviting my friends over to a night of fine dining and champagne (pronounced: Sham-pag-knee) and opening my bottle of aged port with.....a shovel.

And using the shovel as an oar? As a knife to chop food? To measure distance? Why stop there? Why not use that shovel to flip giant pancakes? Why not use that shovel to dial your cell phone? And most obviously, why not use that shovel to bury your ass after you get killed trying to use a goddam shovel to climb a building?

I no longer fear the Chinese military.

I gotta watch this video again. I swear, for a moment, I think that guy used the power of Neo from the Matrix to dig a trench 3 centimeters deep. I have to make sure I'm not high.

@Lewis -

I think the idea isn't for the shovel to do everything spectacularly, but to do it all decently. The major reason this is a good idea for them is that they can issue these to every (or almost every) soldier. So if they get into a situation that requires one of the said tools, in a desperate situation, they can use it for said purposes.

Because in a battlezone, lets face it, they aren't going to be carrying tons of extra hammers, wire cutters, or such.