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From: stancrist
22-Jun
Ecclesiastes said:What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
That is an understandable view considering the reputed writer lived in a time period when sword and spear had been the standard infantry weapons for centuries.
Three millennia later, things have changed a bit. 
From: stancrist
23-Jun
farmplinker2 said:"Close, engage, and destroy" is eternal.
You make the same mistake Ecclesiastes did. Just because up until the present infantry have had to "close, engage, and destroy" has been true, does not mean it always will be.
In a dystopian world a new form of A.I. weaponry has been created. All these drone bots need is a profile: age, sex, fitness, uniform, and ethnicity. Nuclear...
From: farmplinker2
23-Jun
Millennia from now, when humanity is a bunch of computer programs created from scanned human brains, General zepxxxr:V65.03 will be telling its subordinates, "You can't snipe at them, get to knife fighting range"!
And his troops will wonder why their combat techniques are being compared to a wetland dwelling bird, and why you would use an eating utensil as anything other than a desperation weapon.:)
From: JPeelen
8-Jul
Isn't the modification that does not -repeat not- require headspace adjustment at each and every barrel change something materially better than Browning's original design?
Sorry for raining on your and others parade, but I do not really find statements amusing that ignore important facts.
- Edited 08 July 2023 17:21 by JPeelen
From: stancrist
8-Jul
The most important fact is that it is still the same basic design. An enhancement does not change that fact.
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