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Check out the details at Army Times story.
They've come a long way from the monster camera/thermal imager on an M-4.
Why did they always put the bayonet on the damn thing. You have all this technology to see, hear, and kill a guy from around corners, but put a damn knife on the thing just in case.
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DTW, very true. Plus that is not an M4, weight wise that is a freaking M240.
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Is the weapon that all that tecnology sitting on still an M16?
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Ted (11/21/2006)
Is the weapon that all that tecnology sitting on still an M16?Its an M4 which is basically a shortened M16A2 (Semi and 3 round burst only, no rock-n-roll). I think some SOF-types have a full-auto variant
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| When the M-16 first came out, I called a "Mattel toy gun". It's sister was the AR-15. I remember being trained on the M-79 grenade launcher before it went with the troops to Nam. When did we put it under the M-16? It makes sense to do that so that the troop carrying it has some fire power as well.
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Considering that my lil pda phone (an hp ipaq 6515) provides voice coms, GPS, has a 333mhz processor, 32 mb of ram, and over 120 mb of flash memory storage... all in a unit small enough to fit in my back pocket with ease and eight hours of juice in a rechargable battery... the landwarrior has a loooong way to go and is still a rather primitive design.
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Ted (11/21/2006)
I remember being trained on the M-79 grenade launcher before it went with the troops to Nam. When did we put it under the M-16? It makes sense to do that so that the troop carrying it has some fire power as well. I think it was around '69 or '70. The whole system is called the M203.
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Ted, the M16/M203 started being fielded around 1970 or 1971. I don't think it was used much in Vietnam beyond some special ops troops.
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