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Originally posted by apod View Post
Nope. Still being progressed in the background. Two units in the DFTC nominated as final user acceptance trials units starting soon. Contenders. On good authority. SCAR-PR/TPR. HK 417, LMT L129A1, HK G28.
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Originally posted by smegers View Post
Not gone but the FN can't seem to hold a zero well enough to be able to do the job well enough. The Steyr or a AI in 7.62 is preferred for the spotter role.
Its a manufactured weakness.
Look at the difference in the Steyr. The barrel locks in place, the Receiver, holding the rail onto which your sights are mounted, is attached directly to the barrel, locking into position.
Zeroing the FAL back in the day, at 100m, with the best of shiney Plastic Butt FAL, you were still hoping to manage to get your grouping inside a 4x3 white patch. Once we went to the Steyr, suddenly groupings for zeroing by experienced shooters was within a circle an old IR£1 coin could cover. Less sloppiness.For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.
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I was told by one of my Units Sniper that the whole project is starting over. No new weapon chosen."Let us be clear about three facts. First, all battles and all wars are won in the end by the infantryman. Secondly, the infantryman always bears the brunt. His casualties are heavier, he suffers greater extremes of discomfort and fatigue than the other arms. Thirdly, the art of the infantryman is less stereotyped and far harder to acquire in modern war than that of any other arm." ------- Field Marshall Wavell, April 1945.
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