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Originally Posted by kgoerz
I always thought that these companies have to be loosing a lot of money if they don't get the contract and have to make up the cost thru civilian sales. Just not good enough to put it on paper, can I use this by the way? This HK thing is everywhere. The amount of people buying into the notion that soldiers are running around while parts are falling off their M4's is incredible. I got into an argument on the same subject TS stated. How and who told these Units have this weapon. Did they buy one or did they replace their entire stock?? No direct answer was given.
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Help yourself.
The units do have the HK weapons, just like a lot of other non-standard equipment. It really shouldn't matter, as noted, it is all about what the guy behind the trigger can do with it. I would rather have a couple of good, solid team guys with AKs than a platoon full of idiots with OICWs.
The question I am asking is why Rep. Coburn from OK is involved when none of the weapons are made in his district. In fact, as a minimum, he would put German made parts on a US weapon, and at worst, dump the US weapons for foreign ones entirely. Is he also some kind of weapons expert? Odd position.
Note that the military designs have not all been winners. We got the worst of the MG-42 in the M-60 design before eventually coming back to the M-240/MAG-58, which we could/should have adopted in the first place (or the MG-42/MG-3), and the M-14 over the FAL, which the drawings for the prototypes were mysteriously not converted from the metric dimensions properly.
It would be nice if we developed, produced, maintained, and then replaced worn out gear on time, and did not sink money into beltway bandit pet projects like the OICW. A shootout between a dozen each brand new M-4s, 416s, SCARs and SIGs over 100,000 round cycle each would not cost that much, and would suit me just fine.
And I would love to be able to buy a 416 upper (or complete rifle, with a full auto lower), if the price was right.
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Originally Posted by longrange1947
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You know, I have seen some US modified AKs that shot pretty well. Might be worth a look. I would rather hump a PKM than an M-60 or an M-240.
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