Here is the latest (that I know of) on the IAR. Link retrieved from The Firearm Blog.
Here is the latest (that I know of) on the IAR. Link retrieved from The Firearm Blog.
Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. (Christopher Columbus)
All great truth passes through three stages: first it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
(Arthur Schopenhauer)
ONWARD
It could happen.
Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. (Christopher Columbus)
All great truth passes through three stages: first it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
(Arthur Schopenhauer)
ONWARD
German squad in combat
I have spent a while searching the threads, but I cannot find a link to the 1943 War Department publication detailing how the German squad fought. I have the .pdf, but need a link to an online archive.
Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. (Christopher Columbus)
All great truth passes through three stages: first it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
(Arthur Schopenhauer)
ONWARD
Many thanks.
B*stard!! Oh thanks mate..... Now I'll never get any work done. How I didn't know about this, I cannot fathom!Originally Posted by Kiwigrunt
...load up the printer.... it's going to be a long night!
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
Thee and me...
I'm sorry I didn't know about it -- there's a LOT of well stated wisdom in that booklet. Many things I had to learn the hard way -- and yet, it was out six years before I followed the Recruiter home...
Base on what I see and hear today from both theaters, Benning should make this required reading...
I'm about to print the part about leadership and hang it up at work...
The Marine Corps' Commandant has decided, based on the results of testing and further field evaluation by using units, to recommend ending the limited test and evaluation fielding for the M27 IAR and going straight to full-fielding of rifles to each infantry battalion and its LAR battalions.
The Gunner community is surprisingly very much behind the fielding and employment of the weapon. I'm surprised because the grizzled veterans are typically the most vocal critics of the move to a lightweight automatic rifle as a replacement for the SAW (to be precise, SAWs will remain in a infantry company's T/E for some time to come, in the qty of at least six)
A pair of recent articles from the Marine Corps Gazette have touched on this topic again.
Save the Infantryman's Firepower
and
The M249 Light Machine Gun in the Automatic Rifle Role
My article from the June Gazette is not adrift on the web yet, but I am curious to see the responses. Of note, the Gazette does not present coffee mugs to writers any longer, but instead Quill pens are mailed out. They are a lot more expensive form of compensation than a mug, but the cartridge is blue ink...(wry grin)
Last edited by jcustis; 06-04-2011 at 06:17 PM.
I heard that recently, wasn't sure if it was a rumor or the truth. Wasn't the plan to get combat feedback from 1st LAR and the four infantry battalions currently fielding it before making a decision?
That's correct granite_state. The Commandant decided that he had enough available data from the results thus far though, and decided to skip the combat deploys it would seem.
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