View Single Post
Old 05-07-2007, 17:55   #19
Ambush Master
Quiet Professional
 
Ambush Master's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: DFW Texas Area
Posts: 4,741
Quote:
Originally Posted by The Reaper
This is old history, brother.

We had problems getting Swedish Ks in the 60s due to Sweden considering us a belligerent, leading to Smith and Wesson coming out with the S&W 76.

IIRC, they also would not sell us some 40mm weapons during the same period, like Bofors.

I am surprised that we have not had problems getting ammo recently for the Karl Gustav and AT-4s.
TR
Old Ben Baker got the Dutch all up in a tizzy, in the early '70s, when they found out that the Mini-grenades that they had sold him were not being used for evaluation, but were being used in combat!!!
__________________
Martin sends.
Ambush Master is offline   Reply With Quote