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Message no. 1
From: Arclight arclight@*********.de
Subject: [OT] OICW (was: RE: Questions of great importance (Steve, Jon, RA:S people especially))
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 19:01:28 +0200
And finally, a_e expressed himself by writing:

<snip>

> MY flashlight works fine when you drop it in the mud, or hold it
> underwater.
> But US military ISSUE flashlights frequently don't. ["Oh, you
> mean I've got
> to screw it all the way on?"]

Well, the reason I asked is that it sometimes
seems to me that people start to jump on things too
early. The OICW IMHO gets the same heat as the G11
when it was under developement.
As some of you know, the G11 is/ was mainly
fabricated out of plastic materials, and during one
test, the stock broke when they slammed it against
a concrete post. So everybody jumped on this little
incident and stated it was a bad choice and the gun
shouldn't be developed any further and the army should
keep the G3 (which BTW is a very nice weapon). When
the G36 was presented, it had a plastic stock, and
promptly many started rambling again, even before
anybody outside of HK could've lay hands on it or
shoot it. After the gun entered service, there has been
no negative statement about it.
ATM, many people do the same thing on the OICW,
and they critize something that still is under deve-
lopement, the final prototypes have been build mid-98.
Nobody knows how it will look and which capabilities
and elements it will have when entering production.
I don't know if there was any critique about the
in-developement M16, but I guess it wasn't that
hard as it is on the OICW. It' the same with the Glock
pistols: because they are out of plastics. IMO it's just
conservative thinking of the people.

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