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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter Laidlericon View Post
    One day I'll tell you all the whole sorry saga of the well liked, tough and hard wearing SUSAT sight and how commercial companies on contract deal with economies of scale........., especially when it's not their money! Dear o' dear........... It'd make a good lesson for a business course at my sons university! Now there's a thought..........
    Pete, When I worked for M----y on building fifties & GPMGs Etc. I asked the boss one day. How do you arrive at your retail prices to the M.O.D? he replied, ' Well, you get your total manufacturing costs added up. Add on 20 percent, & then TREBBLE the figure'........I ALWAYS got the STRONG impression that they looked upon the M.O.D & foriegn equivelents as Mugs!.........

    I could tell you tales that would make your hair stand on end Mate!..........& I can GUARANTEE, you could do the same! Lol!

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    Quote Originally Posted by tankhunter View Post
    Pete, When I worked for M----y on building fifties & GPMGs Etc. I asked the boss one day. How do you arrive at your retail prices to the M.O.D? he replied, ' Well, you get your total manufacturing costs added up. Add on 20 percent, & then TREBBLE the figure'........I ALWAYS got the STRONG impression that they looked upon the M.O.D & foriegn equivelents as Mugs!.........

    I could tell you tales that would make your hair stand on end Mate!..........& I can GUARANTEE, you could do the same! Lol!
    I think thats the same for all government contractors, that well know Britishicon defence contractor for the Aerospace industry is exactly the same, only they multiply 5 fold I'm sure!

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    Wouldn't a practical problem be that the SUSAT is designed with almost zero eye relief? Mounting it on a 7.62 rifle might generate a few cases of "sniper's eyebrow".
    SUIT sights had a concertina style eye cup to take up the recoil movement.

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    Only the early SUITS had the concertina type eye cup. Ours all had a small eye cup. Good thought about the almost zero eye relief from M-10. Newver gave it a thought but the rubber eye cup was pretty flexible and about an inch or so deep so would be quite forgiving if you took your eye off the ball. Mind you, if it DID hit you, you'd definately be keeping your eye off the ball!

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