To: aft_lizard
its the Germans making this rifle, why couldnt a American company make it?'Cuz the Krauts live for stuff like this.
To: muleskinner
12 posted on
04/15/2004 12:32:47 PM PDT by
aft_lizard
(I actually Voted for John Kerry before I voted against Him)
To: muleskinner
13 posted on
04/15/2004 12:33:56 PM PDT by
aft_lizard
(I actually Voted for John Kerry before I voted against Him)
To: muleskinner
14 posted on
04/15/2004 12:34:36 PM PDT by
aft_lizard
(I actually Voted for John Kerry before I voted against Him)
To: muleskinner
Yeah, it's a safe bet every single one of these will be made in plants situated in the US when it goes into actual service.
I don't have a problem with foreign designs. As long as it's the best one.
Our tanks all have German Rheinmetall guns. The Germans are just good at guns. (And optics, too, of course, and precision scientific testing equipment, as one of the spectrometers on the Mars Rovers is made in Germany.)
Most infantry weapons and machine guns around today are basically copies (some EXTREMELY close copies) of German WWII weapons. The AK-47, for one, and also I believe
32 posted on
04/15/2004 1:39:44 PM PDT by
John H K
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