For those interested in whats going on in the A-Stan

[ldp4570]

This is a scrib artical on the effectiveness of our guns in Afganistan.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/26645298/...istan-Taking-Back-the-Infantry-Half-Kilometer

 

[hopalong]

from the way it sounds our weapons are doing great for as sandy as it is our troups know how to do it

 

[xSMOKExLESSxCRACKx]

A very interesting read. Makes me reconsider that SBR'd AR I've been lusting after.

 

[CAR-AR-M16]

That was a very good read. Thanks for posting it.

 

[Lone Wolf '49]

This is a scrib artical on the effectiveness of our guns in Afganistan.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/26645298/...istan-Taking-Back-the-Infantry-Half-Kilometer

John Farnam wrote this:

14 Feb 10

Are we finally turning the page?

Recently, I've been forwarded a number of scholarly articles from
prestigious military journals, strongly critical of the current 5.56mm cartridge
for which our military rifles are chambered. Of course, they are all
gratuitously wordy, take forever to finally get to the point, and are filled with
interminable (but colorful) charts and graphs. Anything less, and I'm sure
they would never have been allowed to rear their heads!

The interesting point is that they all, at long last, unite in concluding
the 5.56X45 cartridge, in every configuration attempted, unequivocally lacks
adequate (1) range, and (2) penetration for the requirements of a
main-battle, infantry rifle, beyond doubt. Of course, this has all been common
knowledge for forty years!

But, until now, this well-known fact has been mentioned only in nervous,
paranoid whispers, at least among those concerned with their next promotion.
No frank nor open discussion has even been permitted (except among those
of us outside the System), despite innumerable, indisputably accurate
reports from the field of the cartridge's endemic inadequacy.

This is, of course, ever the way big institutions operate, and always
will. Yes, it is encouraging to see this forty-year-old procurement mistake
finally out in the open. Most of the people, including former Secretary of
Defense Robert MacNamara, who foisted this fraud upon the military are now lo
ng-since dead, so we are now down to the last few self-righteous egos that
need defending.

The 6.8mm may yet see the light of day, in our lifetimes!

/John