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- From: Geoff Miller <ghm@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au>
- Subject: Re: M-16A2 Testing
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- Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:24:38 GMT
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- From Geoff Miller <ghm@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au>
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- CMSgt Mike Bergman <bergman@afpan.pa.af.mil> writes:
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- >Testing Proves Today's M-16A2 Best Available
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- >By Master Sgt. Linda Lee, USA
- >American Forces Information Service
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- > DoD and four commercial weapons firms spent $48.4 million and
- >eight years researching, developing and testing to find the best
- >possible individual weapon to replace today's standard issue M-16A2
- >rifle.
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- [Self-congratulatory report deleted.]
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- Fine, but let's try to be honest about this, shall we? The M-16A2
- was tested against _prototypes_ of new weapons systems. These tests
- did not include more recent designs which are in production, such as
- the SA-80, the FAMAS or the Steyr AUG. The selection of the former
- two rifles for the UK and France respectively may have had as much
- to do with national pride as with the intrinsic merits of the weapons,
- but the Steyr design has now won out over the M-16 in a lot of
- countries.
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- Geoff Miller (g-miller@adfa.oz.au)
- Computer Centre, Australian Defence Force Academy
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