michaelmaltby
Colonel
"...During the Balkan war of the 1990s the K98 was still in being used."
If not mistaken, so did the Ross rifle, from WWI
MM
If not mistaken, so did the Ross rifle, from WWI
MM
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Those Spitfires would have stayed on Terra Firma if not for the 100 octane fuel we shipped you just in time for the Battle of Britain.A slight problem with that statement is that the fuel in question was paid for by the British (not give or lean lease) and was formulated to a British specification which was different than US military specifications and in fact may have been usable by US aircraft only with serious maintenance issues. The just in time part of the statement does cover the first deliveries in the fall of 1939, right?
Actually Arisaka types were used by the British among others, in WWI, Model 30's and Model 38's designated Pattern 1900 and Pattern 1907 by the British, around 150,000 altogether. Most were eventually given on to the Russians. In both WW's, everybody trying to build a mass army had trouble equipping everyone right away with their standard frontline weapon. WWI also saw use of SMLE's in US divisions operating within the logistical chain of the British in France.The Arisaka was only used by Japan, produced to about 10 million copies, and equipped perhaps 100 Division altogether.
Atleast 17 million copies of the Lee Enfield were built, and equipped no less than 120 divisions during the war (roughly....52 Brit Divs, 12 Canadian, 40 Indian, 12 Australian, 4 NZ, 2 Burmese, 4 South African, 6 west and east african). It was used to equip formations of free french and other forces in exile, and by several European nations as well, on substantial, but not exclusive basis. It was used to equip Abysynnian guerillas in 1941, as well as a whole range of independant militias. It was supplied to the Chinese. It easily outproduced and out equipped foreign forces compared to the garand. I wont say the Garand was only used to equip the US forces during the war, because I know that isnt true, but it is valid for me to say that compared to the lee enfield, the distribution of the Garand to foreign forces was on a miniscule scale.
I didn't name a few of the rifles because they wern't as common nor as in servivce long in the war, like the Stg44. It came too late to save germany, and even though it was mass produced, it saw limited service in all fronts except the russian front. As for the Lee-Enfield, It was only used by Britian (and its colonies and loyal former colonies except america)and saw some use in the french resestance. In my Opinion, Britian was the smallest of the main contributers to the war, even though it was once the only allie left. As for the rest of the rifles named, and the ones i have already named, have no excuse to be excluded. sorry, but can you guys, of the rifles listed, choose the best still?
Restpectfully,
Zniper
Actually, the M-1 is still in service with a few militaries aroudn the world, I think. Let me see if I can find who.
Looters?...he was firing it over heads to break up some looters
"...During the Balkan war of the 1990s the K98 was still in being used."
If not mistaken, so did the Ross rifle, from WWI
MM
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During the Balkan war of the 1990s the K98 was still in being used.
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Yep, the venerable M-48 (= ex-Yu Mauser K98) were issued even in 1993 for Croatian army. I received one, replaced it with AK-47 after 2 months.
Did you fired bursts or single shots from AK? Standing up or laying down?
Its worse than that....they say the most deadly weapon of mass destruction since the end of WWII was the machete....more than a million killed in Rwanda alone, and most of them hacked to death with machetes