Re: Deployment timings/lifespans

TomB wrote:

>We notice that in the 2180s, the NSL are using an SG-58, which
>suggests a 2158 deployment date (or perhaps design date?).
>
>The french have the FA-75 which suggests (perhaps) a 2175 deployment
>(hence Gauss perhaps?). Maybe the next NSL weapon deployment will be
>Gauss.
>
>Interestingly, the UN has an ISW-82 (I think that's it...),
>suggesting its latest model designs are very recent.

A couple of comments:

* The Carl Gustaf RCL was first accepted into service in 1948; thus it
is 
known as grg m/48 in Swedish service. However, there's also a grg m/95 
(IIRC - I could be a couple years off as we almost never use the Army 
nomenclature at work)... which is simply the latest (third) model of the

same old weapon, with a lighter barrel (glass fibre-wound steel liner 
instead of steel all the way through) and a slightly different venturi. 
There's virtually no functional difference between the two models (the 
lighter weapon is slightly less accurate precisely because it is
lighter, 
but that's it)... yet the type of analysis you applied above would
suggest 
that the m/95 is vastly more modern than the m/48.

* The numbers could refer to something else entirely - caliber, power 
output, position in the quartermasters' lists... perhaps not too likely
in 
the NSL given their historical and current practise, but for the FSE and

(especially) UN - who knows?

Regards,

Oerjan
oerjan.ohlson@telia.com

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