The Dutch solution -
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The Dutch solution -
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ATB Kevin
Nobody ever seems to learn, including the poms with the LSW, the Australians/Canadians with the L2A1 and Russians with the RPK that putting a heavier barrel onto a rifle and/or a bigger magazine and/or a bipod and/or a different butt configuration onto a rifle doesn't make it into a machine gun........... it just makes it a heavy rifle that becomes a little boy trying to do a mans job.
When you need a machine gun, you need a machine gun. Incidentally Brit Plum, I resurrected the enigmatic term 'LMG' for use with the MINIMI after the acceptance trials at Warminster. Call it a bit of nostalgia.
NICE ONE PETER! Dont let the dream die.
p.s. I'm still convinced theres a place for the L4 in the modern war. Given the choice of GPMG, L4, MINIMI or L85A2 I'd take the L4 or the MINIMI as a personal preference.
We (the REME and some other rear echelon troops) still had L4 Brens during the first gulf war. I had one in my landrover but Cfn Baxter didn't know how to use it!
When I was is in Iraq, my EOD team of 6 only had A2s and L9s. The other 2 teams had a MINIMI on each team. We really could have done with somthing a little heavier, there were a few occasions we were miles and hours away from rescue, even a chopper would have been to late to help us. I remember on one job, we lost all comms, Bowman, Mobile and PMR and on the way back to the main route, a bull dozer had built a 10 foot bank of earth across the road (Which we had only driven down 30 minutes before) and the worst possible scenario went through my mind. It turned out to be a farmer stealing land and making boundaries before the first government election, but I did wish for somthing with a few more milimeters in its caliber at that point.
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Originally Posted by triggerhappy2
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