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In message , Stephen Harding
writes Paul J. Adam wrote: Sorry, but Hackworth is more interested in pandering to prejudice than rational analysis. (For instance, his cheerful bluster about the "useless" 9mm pistol and the "ineffective" M16 family... tell you what, he can stand in front of me and I'll put a few rounds from either into him; then he can tell me how "ineffective" they are) Although I've come around to your sort of opinion towards Hackworth, the "effectiveness" argument is sort of bogus isn't it? The argument is that these weapons are apparently so lacking in lethality that enemy soldiers laugh off multiple hits, crying out "stop that, it tickles" - on the rare occasions when these weapons apparently fire at all, they apparently being so unreliably that it's a miracle any US soldiers ever get a round off in combat before their weapons permanently jam. Hackworth's vilifying the M-16 family in a way that makes the L85 look like a paragon of reliability (oddly enough, the L85 _did_ perform very well during TELIC) A muzzle loading, black powder Kentucky Rifle would be "effective" under such a test, no? Most definitely - the complaints are reliability and lethality, and a well-handled muzzle loader should do well on both scores provided the weather's not too damp ![]() in rain, et cetera are not measures of effectiveness Hackworth mentions so I'm leaving them out too. His rules, not mine. -- When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. W S Churchill Paul J. Adam MainBoxatjrwlynch[dot]demon{dot}co(.)uk |
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