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- From: fcrary@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Frank Crary)
- Subject: Re: M16A2
- Message-ID: <By6JAu.IFM@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Sender: military@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Sci.Military Login)
- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
- References: <By4Ln4.D1C@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:30:29 GMT
- Approved: military@law7.daytonoh.ncr.com
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- From fcrary@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Frank Crary)
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- In article <By4Ln4.D1C@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> Eugene Heiss (GWD) <heiss@brl.mil> writes:
- >>Fine, but let's try to be honest about this, shall we? The M-16A2
- >>was tested against _prototypes_ of new weapons systems.
- > So what!
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- Prototypes are, in general, inferior to production systems (where all the
- minor bugs have, supposedly, been worked out.) By ignoring existing
- production weapons, and comparing the M16A2 only to prototypes, the
- M16 was given misleading advantage.
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- >>These tests
- >>did not include more recent designs which are in production, such as
- >>the SA-80, the FAMAS or the Steyr AUG.
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- >The goal of the Advanced Combat Rifle Program was to double the hit
- >probability of the rifleman using the M16A2 rifle. No weapon in production
- >could achieve this goal.
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- If they didn't test those weapons, how do they know that? Further, how
- could a program with that goal have concluded the M16A2 was the "winner"?
- It certainly doesn't meet that goal.
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- Frank Crary
- CU Boulder
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