Stencollector, as much as I hate to say it, is right on the Arrow. It was a project still in its infancy, in quite a few ways. For one thing, the Arrow never flew with its Iroquois engines, so it was far from complete.

On the other hand, it DID break every record in the book, flying on half-power.

I have never had a chance to tear an EM-2 down and find out exactly WHAT is in its tender little guttiwutts but I do suspect that it might have been possible to make it a little easier on the troopies. Kar 43 is miserable, but it didn't have to be. I am TOLD that the EM-2 has a fair bit of Kar 43 in its ancestry..... so product improvement likely was possible.

But we will never KNOW until someone does it, will we?

Still, the ammo WAS a true assault-rifle round and NATO STILL doesn't have one of those, the .223 being more suited to gopher-hunting. Next NATO round will be whatever the USBO crams down NATO's throat, same as the last two.

If only RATIONAL heads would prevail.....