09-16-2017, 02:06 PM
Very interesting history discussion!
Never heard of the 276 pederson before, but I could see where one aspect would work against it, and that's all the machinery tooling changes you'd have to do vice 30-cal (not that I'm a 30 cal fanboy)... but foundries and tool/dies just for the barrels, if you can avoid those changeover costs, that's one advantage I'd think 1930's bean counters would go for...
But I'm enjoying this thread and all the discussion, learning a lot.
Regarding the bomber factory... I might suspect that it could be part of a reaction to the 36 war in Spain. I believe I've read where lots of elites and maybe Congress were at first enamored with Mussolini and Fascism (in the 20's) but then you see their "pre-season" game of war in the Spanish revolution... could have made somebody think that maybe we should be preparing more than we had been...
Just throwing out a couple possibilities.
Many times I think the bureaucrats are too afraid to plan for the war we might realistically see, instead they prepare for the last war, that's easy to see!!!
Never heard of the 276 pederson before, but I could see where one aspect would work against it, and that's all the machinery tooling changes you'd have to do vice 30-cal (not that I'm a 30 cal fanboy)... but foundries and tool/dies just for the barrels, if you can avoid those changeover costs, that's one advantage I'd think 1930's bean counters would go for...
But I'm enjoying this thread and all the discussion, learning a lot.
Regarding the bomber factory... I might suspect that it could be part of a reaction to the 36 war in Spain. I believe I've read where lots of elites and maybe Congress were at first enamored with Mussolini and Fascism (in the 20's) but then you see their "pre-season" game of war in the Spanish revolution... could have made somebody think that maybe we should be preparing more than we had been...
Just throwing out a couple possibilities.
Many times I think the bureaucrats are too afraid to plan for the war we might realistically see, instead they prepare for the last war, that's easy to see!!!