Re: HIGH TECH WONDER INDIVIDUAL WEAPON

--- Ryan Gill <rmgill@mindspring.com> wrote:

> As opposed to a spotter keying in a code and lasing
> a target. 

Yeah.  If that's all you're doing, it's not hard. 
Remember there's a whole damn MOS revolving around
that.

Or a 
> mortarman adjusting fire in the correct direction in
> a battle? 

Mortarmen are rarely under fire--and frat happens more
often than they would like to admit.

Or a > grenadier giving the correct windage? 

Not as easy as it sounds even under non-combat
conditions.

Or a LT > reading his GPS unit, 
> correctly identifying a target and

LTs can barely find their way around garission, much
less the field.  Never mind calling for fire.

> Yep full sized M-16's. That fits real nice in the
> fighting 
> compartment of that M-1 Abrams. Right in there next
> to the driver. 
> And the Gunner doesn't have a problem at all of
> getting to his M-16 
> when getting out does he?

They issue them so they must fit.  I think Don can
speak to how many weapons get carried around inside a
Paladin.
 
> But you're right. FN doesn't know anything about
> predicting the 
> prevailing winds of armament technology. 

So what, if FN makes it it must rock?

John

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