Pretty minor stuff really
Not really an arms deal, more of a police arms deal- why it's causing an uproar I don't know.
What I find odd is the reference to 'submachine guns'. I wasn't aware the UK had any significant SMG models of their own.
UK's new 'arms deal' with Iraq
Moderators: Alyrium Denryle, Edi, K. A. Pital
UK's new 'arms deal' with Iraq
Like Legend of Galactic Heroes? Please contribute to http://gineipaedia.com/
-
dummnutzer
- Redshirt
- Posts: 25
- Joined: 2003-11-10 09:31pm
Re: UK's new 'arms deal' with Iraq
Heckler&Koch was bought by an UK firm after the G11 had been rejected by the German military, IIRC. HKs are quite popular with police forces all over the world.Vympel wrote:Pretty minor stuff really
What I find odd is the reference to 'submachine guns'. I wasn't aware the UK had any significant SMG models of their own.
Re: UK's new 'arms deal' with Iraq
The Germans bought it back.dummnutzer wrote:
Heckler&Koch was bought by an UK firm after the G11 had been rejected by the German military, IIRC. HKs are quite popular with police forces all over the world.
The Thompson is an American design. The last SMG the British had was the famous Sten.UK does have the Thompson sub-machinegun. But it is a very old design
Like Legend of Galactic Heroes? Please contribute to http://gineipaedia.com/
No, the L2 Sterling (which was designed to replace the Sten) was the last SMG produced by the British. Incidently, this weapon was seen in Star Wars as the E11 blaster rifle...Vympel wrote:The Thompson is an American design. The last SMG the British had was the famous Sten.
HAB: Crew-Served Weapons Specialist
"Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope." --P.J. O'Rourke
"A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." --J.S. Mill
-
Sea Skimmer
- Yankee Capitalist Air Pirate
- Posts: 37390
- Joined: 2002-07-03 11:49pm
- Location: Passchendaele City, HAB
I'd suspect the article is either wrong, or a British company is simply marketing an SMG design for someone else.
"This cult of special forces is as sensible as to form a Royal Corps of Tree Climbers and say that no soldier who does not wear its green hat with a bunch of oak leaves stuck in it should be expected to climb a tree"
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956
-
Sea Skimmer
- Yankee Capitalist Air Pirate
- Posts: 37390
- Joined: 2002-07-03 11:49pm
- Location: Passchendaele City, HAB
AK-47's aren't very good weapons for police forces in any form, and modern militaries don't put too much emphasis on SMG's or handguns, which are the main police weapons. Iraq was no exception to this. So they really don't need to import guns for them. Now the AK-47's that where imported for the new Iraqi army are another story..evilcat4000 wrote:Iraq has plently of Ak-47s and other kind of guns lying around. They may not need to import small arms.
"This cult of special forces is as sensible as to form a Royal Corps of Tree Climbers and say that no soldier who does not wear its green hat with a bunch of oak leaves stuck in it should be expected to climb a tree"
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956
-
Admiral Valdemar
- Outside Context Problem
- Posts: 31572
- Joined: 2002-07-04 07:17pm
- Location: UK