Posted on 04/03/2010 1:03:04 PM PDT by neverdem
yes it is. the SS109 is the current one in US military. It is fired with the 1:9 twist barrel.
Why not go to DSA Arms and get the FAL-FN clones for $1700.
O wants our troops ground up in Afghan and Iraq for his bosses. He wants our best and bravest over there not back here.
http://www.dsarms.com/SA58-Original-Series/products/35/
M14 production tooling was sold in 1967 to the Republic of China (Taiwan), who in 1968 began producing their Type 57 Rifle. The State Arsenal of the Republic of China produced over 1 million of these rifles from 1969 to the present under model numbers of M305 and M14S.
like china would sell ‘em back to us...
LOL!
Problem is they do have to be toted through some pretty tough terrain over there.
7 MM is tops! let’s get some sporterized mausers...
I think the bigger issue are the rules of engagement that don’t allow artilery and air strikes to be called in. You shoot at us with a mortar or light arms fire, we rain down artilery fire or call in the warthogs.
I got it backwards when I wrote it. Momentary dyslexia. :-P
500+ meters is excessive range for their weapons, and hitting anything at that range is more a matter of luck, our soldiers are trained in deliberate fire (single aimed shots) and are more effective. Also current doctrine having snipers being a battalion asset leaves platoons shorted when having to engage at long distance, including some long guns at the platoon level is probably the right call for Afghanistan, and we'll probably start doing that once the lessons are fully digested, if it isn't already being done.
Saying WW1 soldiers were better equipped to handle Afghanistan is also something I disagree with. Sure they had long rifles (what else were you going to arm them with at that time?) but they didn't have our comms/training/air support/mobility/etc...
They just need longer barreled m16s with scope. The 556 nato round is just fine. Little more accuracy, little more velocity...that’s all that’s needed.
I’ve been saying for years they need to ditch brass cases and upgrade to high strength aluminum alloy cases and then boost up chamber pressures.
Then upgrade the recoil system with an oil filled system for really smooth shooting. Better compensators on the end of the muzzle would help too.
Bigger bullets is the wrong way to go, imo. More speed is the best solution.
BTW, 556 shoots further than 762. This article is not entirely honest.
762x39 is way easier to stop with a vest than 556nato. 556nato is just fine. it’s the dam short carbine rifles that suck.
We’ll go broke fighting wars like that. a bullet is way cheaper than a plane carrying a missile.
I like this choice. in 308?
It’s still made. It only tumbles when shot from longer barreled rifles. No tumbling when shot from a m4 carbine.
Drop a BIG BOMB and quit using small arms.
This war should have been over a long time ago.
Just drop a bomb and let God sort it out.
Does anyone else wonder if 0bama doesn’t get some kind of perverse pleasure from the deaths of our Military? Maybe it’s just me.
Its not the Ak’s so much as the 7.62 round on a belt fed machine gun mounted on a tripod up high... lots of punch from a distance
accuracy by volume
Taiwan, you mean?
Is it any wonder why GWB opted for a change of venue in the War on Terror?
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