5.56 Nato

Posted in uncategorized on November 2nd, 2007 by SayUncle | RSS 2.0 |

Cactus Jack Says:
November 2nd, 2007 at 7:15 pm
“one thing you absolutely do not want to ever do is fight a war while changing out your primary issue chambering, unless you can do it all at once; because logistically, you can’t risk having half a division needing one type of ammunition, the other half needing another; when you are sending stuff by the shipload”

Both armies in the War between the States discovered how much of a mess ths could be. In the first year of the war they were using Infantry weapons chambered for .54, .58, .62, .60, and .69 calibres some smoothbore and some rifled.
There was a brigade in Sherman’s divison, Army of the Tennesee, at the battle of Shiloh in April 1862 that had 4 regiments armed with weapons in 3 differnt calibres. Can you imagine the problem that brigade’s quartermaster had getting the right ammo to the right unit in the middle of a major, and very confused, battle?

BTW, the U.S. Army did change from one calibre to another in the middle of a war. In 1965-66, during the Vietnam war, they changed from the 7.62mm M-14 to the 5.56mm M-16.
Heartless Libertarian Says:
November 3rd, 2007 at 5:24 pm
I saw it. My paper isn’t so much actually intended to change anything, just to show that we have an understanding of the players and processes involved.

Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.

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