Re: HIGH TECH WONDER INDIVIDUAL WEAPON

At 10:19 AM -0800 2/1/02, Brian Bilderback wrote:
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>Very interesting.  I'm at work, so I can't look too closely at 
>weapons web sites (especially while mumbling to myself).  How 
>comparable is it's performance to, say, the MP-5 series?  Would it 
>be an appropriate option for Spec Ops, and if so, as which - an SMG, 
>an AR, or a hybrid?

The ballistics are far faster and offer better penetration than the 
9mm and 45 based MP5s. They don't have the same frangiblility as 
those do. I'd like to see ballistic gelatin tests. However, given the 
penchant for Spec ops types to go for head shots, I'd not give much 
in the way of odds of survival of one of these rounds ripping through 
one's skull.

The Suppressed version is very useful for special ops. The point man 
on the entry team that went into the Japanese Embassy in Peru was 
armed with a P90. The P-90 is somewhere between the pistol round 
length and the rifle round length of the M16. Its in the same weird 
ground that the shorter M16 round was when it was introduced folloing 
the long time use of the full length .30 caliber rounds (7.62 and 
30.06).

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