Re: Laser rangefinders was Re: colonial weapons

--- Flynn Richardson <Flynn.Richardson@unilever.com>
wrote:

> Didn't some of the military say this about 17lbs in
> M4s back in W.W.II as
> well? ( I am sure that people can think of a lot of
> other examples :-)

Actually, no.  The statement was "Those are British". 
Then we introduced the 76mm gun which was quite
adequate (even for hunting the vaunted T-34/85s in
Korea), then the retooling of the factories was a
problem.  Had to keep some tanks coming (because even
the worst tank, which the M4 was NOT, is worse than no
tank) and switch over production gradually.  

John 

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