Re: GMS Air

Los 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. 

Well... neither the AT4 nor the CG is a GSM/p :-( The AT4 is an IAVR
(to use the DSII term); the CG is... well, a cross between a multi-use
IAVR and Light Artillery, or something. It can't fire ATGMs... at least
not yet :-/

> 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...

>From my viewpoint it'd be *very* nice if all US forces adopted the CG
system <G>

While I'm at it, what do you think about the SMAW?

Oerjan Ohlson
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