Picture of the day

MarkCNP said:
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That guy doesn't look too happy-must have drawn the short straw, or lost a bet....
 
I would NOT been happy with being selected to be a flamethrower equipped soldier. The fact that everyone is gunning for you as soon as you show up would make your odds much slimmer than a regular grunt. Plus the images you'd have to live with would be horrendous.
 
gunsdora said:
Here is a few M1 / M2 carbines. I have no idea were the pic was taken from.

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That was in Korea - 2PPCLI. Carbines were quite popular and there were lots of them around. People liked them for patrolling because of the light weight and high firepower. Thompson SMGs were pretty available there as well. Neither we nor the US Army had them on issue, but the Chinese were using lots of them which had been supplied to the Chinese Nationalists during WW2 and were later taken over by the Chicoms. Our people even encountered Inglis BRENs in 8x57 which we had given to the Nationalists during WW2.
 
I think the Brits had a real winner in the short .280 round that came with the EM2 rifle. Had it been adopted as NATO standard in place of the 7.62 we might well have been shooting it in infantry rifles to the present day. But politics is politics.
 
The round was excellent, but the rifle itself faired poorly in trials against the FN..some all but shooting themselves to pieces. To be fair they where in an earlier stage of development. I still fail to see how the M14 was ever selected opposed to the FAL or G3...
 
Are you speaking from the American point of view? I think the greatest answer there is that the M14 was an American design whereas the others were not. Dido on the 7.62x51 and 5.56x45.
 
Cocked&Locked said:
The round was excellent, but the rifle itself faired poorly in trials against the FN..some all but shooting themselves to pieces. To be fair they where in an earlier stage of development. I still fail to see how the M14 was ever selected opposed to the FAL or G3...
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Oh man I hear you on that one as to why the US went with the M14 Vs the FAL. The only reason that makes half sense to me is the folks doing the trials probably thought the sun rose and set on the Garand (Ex WW2/Korea vets) and they felt the M14 was just a "better garand". That and the disdain for a "foreign" rifle from Europe that's not dreamt up, designed and stamped Made in America. That's my pet theory on it.
 
purple said:
I think the Brits had a real winner in the short .280 round that came with the EM2 rifle. Had it been adopted as NATO standard in place of the 7.62 we might well have been shooting it in infantry rifles to the present day. But politics is politics.
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Absolutely. The irony is after making the mistake the first time, NATO did it again with the 5.56x45mm (.223 Rem).
 
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