Why the hell are we buying kraut firearms?
Well, the Krauts make some good stuff, but we have a history of making some mighty fine firearms ourselves.
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We should make our own military rifles. This is beyond stupid.
The “outsourcing” of EVERYTHING has got to stop!
Here’s an interesting vid clip on the IAR:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YzGzeLh3mc
It kind of sounds like a modern equivalent of the BAR.
Well said General!
Very shortly the rest of US weaponry will be made in India.
Indeed it does. If I were assaulting a hilltop position- I'd rather it be held by a platoon of spray and pray troops than a squad from the Marine Corps Rifle Team.
Marksmanship is the state religion of the Marine Corps. I was in during the M16A1 era. I badly wished we could have gone back to the M14.
Rule #1 when dealing the Ordinance Department:
Trust but verify.
This looks like one of those test that won’t work out for the manufacturer.
I don’t see the wisdom of replacing a belt fed automatic rifle with a magazine fed one. The idea is for the machine gunner to deny an area to the enemy, and that is hard to do with a mag-fed 5.56x45mm NATO piece of hardware. The SAW had its problems, but it could put alot of metal into an area in a short period of time. This IAR can’t do that.
But then, I thought the E model of the M-60 wasn’t too horrible. And the 7.62x51mm NATO turned cover into concealment pretty well. Never got to play with the M240.