At 12:26 AM +0100 1/12/01, Tom wrote:
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 01:12:00PM +0100, Tom wrote:
a friend of mine was an officer in the german army until very recently (he decided to get a real job :) ) - give me 24 hours and I'll tell you exactly what the past and current standard issue weapons are and what kind of ammo they fire.
current weapon (after the G3) is the G36, obviously an advanced G3 version. I didn't have much time to chat about the subject today, so if anyone wants to know ammo types, more details, whatever - ask and I'll find out.
Much information on the G36 is readily available on the Web. It is not actually very similar to the G3, except for the roller-delayed action used by HK in most of their semi-automatic rifles. The caliber is, as per current NATO expectations, 5.56 mm. I sent out a note entitle "More on the G3" this morning, but it has not yet, 8-9 hours later, appeared in my mailbox. Could be delays and glitches due to the storms hitting California today. If I don't see it in the next several hours, I'll send it out again. --Tim May -- Timothy C. May tcmay@got.net Corralitos, California Political: Co-founder Cypherpunks/crypto anarchy/Cyphernomicon Technical: physics/soft errors/Smalltalk/Squeak/agents/games/Go Personal: b.1951/UCSB/Intel '74-'86/retired/investor/motorcycles/guns