RE: GMS Air

Actually since we're on teh subject of a Gov't buying foreign product;
the
Carl Gustav was a problem during Vietnam era; Sweden refused to supply
components to Australia during the time of our involvement in the
conflict!

That is why we purchased production rights to more recent acquisitions,
ie
Steyr and Minimi.

And Oz still uses the venerable LAW across the board; look at footage of
Australian soldiers in East Timor....

Owen G

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Los [mailto:los@cris.com]
> Sent: Friday, 1 October 1999 1:18 PM
> To: gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
> Subject: Re: GMS Air
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Alan E and Carmel J Brain wrote:
> 
> > Carl Gustav - another fine piece of Swedish engineering that the
> > Australian Army uses. Just be careful of the back-blast.
> 
> A great weapon. The US actually bought a number of those 
> which were used in the
> Ranger battalion to replace the venerable old 90mm bazooka. 
> (There'a bazooka
> man in each ranger platoon).
> 
> The US in general has been dicking around for a real longtime 
> trying to find a
> good GMS/p. For some reason we abandoned teh perfectly fine 
> and effective 90mm
> bazooka to go with the LAW which was IMO a peice of junk 
> though useful for
> bunkers. Then we went to the VIPER (or screwed around with it 
> for a while), and
> then now the AT4 (though there are still a lot of M66 LAWs in 
> the system to get
> rid of.) Most in the know have maintained that the way to go 
> all along would
> have been the Carl Gustav for all US forces but you know how 
> DOD is with
> foreign stuff...
> 
> Los
>