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Re: HIGH TECH WONDER INDIVIDUAL WEAPON

From: Tim Gray <tgray@a...>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 11:34:15 -0500
Subject: Re: HIGH TECH WONDER INDIVIDUAL WEAPON

On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 13:03:52 -0800 (PST)
John Atkinson <johnmatkinson@yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> --- Tim Gray <tgray@adacplastics.com> wrote:
> 
> > issued to 4 troops out of a squad of 9.  How much to
> > you want to bet the other 5 guys are going to be the
> > ones carrying the mortar stuff.  (Or is mortar stuff
> > already distributed around the entire sqd?).
> 
> Mortar stuff???

Yeah, someone had mentioned a mortar baseplate, ammo, T&E, etc... that
would make such a burdensome weapon as the OICW even more impractical.
  
> > I also noticed that the "excused" the weight of the
> > weapon by stating all the things that they already
> > attach to weapons for different situations... but
> > how many times have you seen all of those things
> > attached at ONE TIME?  My guess is never... 
> 
> Most of the time I don't see squat attached to
> anything but an M-4.

Agreed.  It was rare to see anything, and even then, all I ever saw was
SRT (Military Police SWAT) with some scopes, ACOGs and occasionally some
11B's in the woods with night-sights.

> John
> 
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