09-11-2017, 08:52 PM
LRRPF52 Wrote:We're at the foothills of a possible new advancement in technology, which has a lot of gravitational pull in the current way of doing things keeping it from escape velocity. I'm reminded of the .276 Pedersen, General MacArthur, and the coming world war in the 1930s. Maybe MacArthur knew things in advance that Army Ordnance Bureau did not...If so, he must've had one helluva crystal ball. He rejected it five years before the Japanese invaded China, seven years before the Germans conquered Poland, and almost a decade before Pearl Harbor.
LRRPF52 Wrote:The difference is that maybe we do have the capacity to conduct finalized development of a new cartridge in the middle of full-scale war, and maybe we don't. They might be looking at strategic reserves and manufacturing centers for propellant, cases, primers, and bullets and not want to mess with that right now.I'm not following you. In 1932, World War II was still years in the future. In 2017, we're not in the middle of a full-scale war; just low-intensity, counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency operations.