YES! - exactly. This is something I have never understood, and it points to process over end state.Originally Posted by Ken White
To engage over open/optic sights out to 2,000m, I can't see needing more than 2 days and that's with live firing. If the guys already know the M240 from the light role, then 1 day is all it would take.
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- The job of the British Army out here is to kill or capture Communist Terrorists in Malaya.
- If we can double the ratio of kills per contact, we will soon put an end to the shooting in Malaya.
Sir Gerald Templer, foreword to the "Conduct of Anti-Terrorist Operations in Malaya," 1958 Edition
2000 meters in 2 days? With standard platoon/squad equipment?
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M240/GPMG, plus tripod and buffer mount. Plus you'll need a pair of binoculars to spot the fall of shot. At night this drops off to tracer burn out. Thermal Imager may help, but I've never done it with TI.
Infinity Journal "I don't care if this works in practice. I want to see it work in theory!"
- The job of the British Army out here is to kill or capture Communist Terrorists in Malaya.
- If we can double the ratio of kills per contact, we will soon put an end to the shooting in Malaya.
Sir Gerald Templer, foreword to the "Conduct of Anti-Terrorist Operations in Malaya," 1958 Edition
Yup.
Ain't hard...
Don't forget to teach them how to dig a proper MG trench either (that's worth the better part of a day). And for those not using the old Browning .30 cal tripod (the US still does) but the full 6400-mil traverse tripod and gun cradle that comes with a Tritium lamp (Canadian have that) for the aiming stakes, all the joys that come with using the Mortar sight for registering targets and laying the gun.
Sigh...
The quest for quality does complicate life, does it not. Lights are for wimps.
We gots a new tripod on the way -- still no 6400 mil but note the weight!
That was all the stuff I was trying to avoid! Direct fire only.
...and in "Dicta Wilf" there are no trenches. There are hides and fire positions.
Infinity Journal "I don't care if this works in practice. I want to see it work in theory!"
- The job of the British Army out here is to kill or capture Communist Terrorists in Malaya.
- If we can double the ratio of kills per contact, we will soon put an end to the shooting in Malaya.
Sir Gerald Templer, foreword to the "Conduct of Anti-Terrorist Operations in Malaya," 1958 Edition
Ken White wrote:
The entire body of Machine-Gunners of the Royal Canadian Infantry Corps is crestfallen at this statement, Ken [Norfolk proceeds to sob uncontrollably].The quest for quality does complicate life, does it not. Lights are for wimps.
That tritium lamp sitting on top of that aiming stake is, frankly, creepy, a dull green eye staring back at you in the distance. And if it ever blinked back at me, I'd be out of my trench so fast no tracer could catch me.
and:
I sees that - nice piece of kit; GPMG gunners the world over are drooling over it (I must admit to having been so afflicted myself, a little). But really, would't the Airborne and the Marines be better off it they shed that much weight themselves before they demanded it of an inanimate object that has no control over its BMI? (Reference Ken W.'s first commentWe gots a new tripod on the way -- still no 6400 mil but note the weight!
Wilf wrote:
I think Wilf's really an ex-Para masquerading as an ex-Royal Green Jacket. Only the Paras possess this level of phobia regarding trenches, shovels, and anything that requires digging.That was all the stuff I was trying to avoid! Direct fire only.
...and in "Dicta Wilf" there are no trenches. There are hides and fire positions.
Ugh. Please. Avoid foul langwitch...
Shovels? DIGGING? Yeck...
Norfolk,I think Wilf's really an ex-Para masquerading as an ex-Royal Green Jacket. Only the Paras possess this level of phobia regarding trenches, shovels, and anything that requires digging.
You sure the Green Jackets don't have the same phobia? I don't remember Sharpe and Harper ever digging in.
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