Another relic of the British empire

[browningautorifle]

You can see the misbegotten M73

I saw that right off, never had the chance to handle one though. My thing was the 1919A4...guess I didn't miss much.

I remember when the Turk army imported a mass of M48's to Nicosia Cyprus, 1980 I think it was. We listened to them unloading them for hours back behind their lines. Never did see them after that.

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[old tanker]

I saw that right off, never had the chance to handle one though. My thing was the 1919A4...guess I didn't miss much.

I remember when the Turk army imported a mass of M48's to Nicosia Cyprus, 1980 I think it was. We listened to them unloading them for hours back behind their lines. Never did see them after that.

The M48A2C's I started out on still had the M37 Browning which was that last version of the M1919 series the US Army used. Rather than convert them to 7.62 NATO, the wonks in Ordnance inflicted the M73 on us. One of the biggest flaws was the lousy attachment between the receiver and the barrel jacket. It was only made worse subjected to the bouncing around it got when the tank was in motion. The final insult came when thirty years later they finally relented and adopted the M240 for tanks. Soldiers were not supposed to realize that Ordnance had rejected the MAG in 1958. The current crop of troopers do not even realize that 240 is a belt fed evolution of your namesake, the Browning Automatic Rifle.