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23.7.04
 

Assault rifle ammo: the British were right


I finally bought the book on the FN rifle (scroll down). It's a heavy book as the separate 3 volumes and the sepcial index were consolidated into one volume. In any case, it's the rifle's historical background that's very fascinating and quite relevant today.

In fact, it's ironical that the Americans are adopting a new rifle cartdige- the 6,8 mm because their combat experiences have highlighted the 5,56mm doesn't have enough killing power at distances of 500-600m. The Americans could've saved themseleves an enourmous amount of expenditure if they'd only adopted the ideal rifle cartidge...50 years ago. The British were correct to advocate that the 7 mm is the ideal assualt rifle cartidge. It has enough killing power at the usual combat distances that infantryman fight (50-100m) while still retaining enough kinetic energy to kill at 600 m and allow soldiers to fire their rifle in automatic.

Unfortunately, American small arms development was dominated by Colonel Réné Studler. He appears to be one of those officiers who's a brilliant desk jockey but has limited combat experience. For reasons that still mystify me, the Americans in the immediate postwar period simply refuted their own combat experiences as well as the refusing to incorporate the revolution that the MP 44, Stg 45 with the 7,92x33m cartidge represented for future infantry combat. American generals insisted that the new German assult rifles and the accompanying cartidge were flukes compelled by wartime exigencies and didn't in any way render heavy battle rifle weith full power cartidges obselete.

Consequently, Studler rigged the trials to favour the modified Garand- the M14- over the FN and the EM-2 (the grandfather of all bullpup rifles)and the not invented here syndrome pervading the American military throughout the early Cold war pretty much killed rifle standardization. So NATO ended up with the metric and inch (Canada and Britian) FNs that were somewhat incompatible, the German G3 and the M14. What's particularly galling was that no sooner had the Americans imposed their 7,62 mm (the x 51mm case length was a compromise that the Canadians were able to convince the Americans and Brits to adopt as the standard round) in 1954, that the American military project managers were already experimenting on the 22 calibre cartidges and focussing on the 0,222 round which through various trials became the 5,56 mm.

The 5,56 mm might be an ideal bullet for the jungle where combat engagements are between 10-50 m under very heavy forest cover but the round itself lack sufficent kinetic energy to kill an armed man at 400-600m. In other words, the 5,56 mm would be problematic if NATO ever fought the Warsaw pact in the central German plains.

No doubt when the NATO standaization committee learnt of the 5,56 mm, they shook their heads and groaned. The only positive thing about the adoption of the 5,56 mm is that it led to an explosion in the production of new rifles, techniques and accessories. I wonder if that creative burst wouldn't've occurred 50 years ago had the Americans adopted the 7 mm cartidge and the FN?

 
21.7.04
 

Le destin bizzare de Julie Bureau


Depuis que l'on a retrouvée, son histoire tourne de plus en plus bizarre. Au centre de cette drame c'es pourquoi avait-elle quitté la maision pendant 3 ans. Pourquoi elle n'a pas voulu voir ses parents immédiatement?.

En outre, il y a Pierre qu'il l'a acceuillée pendant ce temps-là et ils auraient forgé une lien fraternel. Franchement, je ne lui crois pas. Il n'a jamais posé de questions, ni s'est méfié de son histoire ni contacté la police comme minimum. En bref, je me méfie de son acte d'incrédule naïf de bonne foi. Même les collègues de travail de Pierre se posaient des question à l'égard de Julie.

Cependant le plus grand surpris se réservait du dépôt de la demande de garde par Pierre. Moi ça me tombe très mal car il y une paquette de questions que doivent s'éclairer même si le commun de mortels ne les connaîtront pas. Le plus que cette histoire progress le plus lubrigeuse elle devienne.

En tout cas, Julie, doit à sa famille, comme minimum une explication pourquoi il a foutu le camp.


Les sorpreses del 11 M


Llegia a través els sitis noticiers espanyols i catalans sobre la commissió parlementària sobre els esdevenmenets del 11 M. Uns dels primer sorpreses- ara bé no tant sorpresa que confirmació- que el govern PP volia involcrar la Guardia civil a convencer els seus homològs europeus que el nacionalisme moderat basc era tan crminal que ETA si no més ben bé un extensió del bàndol.

Ara hi han notítices que Aznar havia mentit sobre els autors dels atentents durant l'11 M. En hores les fons policials i d'intel·legència dismentiern ETA i apuntaven als terroristes islamics.

Em pregunto a través l'informació filtrada pels medis si l'obsessió d'Aznar i del PP a crminialitzar el nacionalisme moderat basc no els cegà al perill del islamodijadisme domestic. En tot cas si hem après una lliçó important es que en una democràcia mai es pot polititzar l'intel·ligència o obligar els servis policials i d'espionatge a falsificar-la per quadrar amb les presumciones a priori del govern del dia. Corromp la capicitat de decidir i fereix la responsbilitat polítics del goven devant els ciutadans.

 
19.7.04
 

La frace du procès iranien: comment mettre la pression efficace


Hier on a appris que les mullahs ont mis fin au procès du tueur de Kamzei et que le Canada a rappelé son ambassadeur. Évidemment, les gouvrnment et la famille s'indignet mais si le premier veut traduire cett outrage de façon efficace c'est temp qu'il met en oeure sa politique. Voici quelsque propositions:


  1. Aller auprès l'AIEA et denoncer de nouveau la non-conformité d'Iran à se soummettre à des inspections internationales de son programme nucléaire

  2. Imposer de sanctions économiques et financières

  3. Coordiner avec les Européens un front commun pour sanctionner les mullahs

  4. Financier les dissidents en-dehors et à l'interieur du pays. Qu'on multiple les maux de tête pour le régime

  5. Ahontir les mullahs devant l'opinion publique mondiale


Je ne suis pas si naïf pour croire que le gouvernement pourrait réussir que les Européen aillent en contre leurs intérêts économiques. Cependant, les Européens sont très mal à l'aise avec le régime théocratique et ils se posent de question quant à sa fiabilité. Donc le gouvernment canadien doit exploiter ce mal à l'aise à son maximum. Encore, le pêché vous rend stupide puisque les mullahs ont régalé un exemple de la clarté morale au monde.

 
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