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It needs to be remembered that in T2K the Reaganesque defense budgets kept going because the alternate history mandates that the Soviet economy was doing at least as well as the Soviets SAID it was doing...
In the real world they were lying and it all fell apart right after the Berlin Wall came down.
In T2K they get into a war with China and the Germanies decide to reunite, triggering a second front between NATO and The Warsaw Pact.
But the budgets and arms race kept going until 1997...
Since the military stays big, that means that new stuff is added and old stuff gets moved to lower readiness formations.
That means things like the M1911A1 are still issued. Some units still have M16A1's.
The M60 machine gun is still in ample supply and is still in production. The M60, M60C (aircraft mount) and M60D (door gun with spade grips) are still in service with the National Guard and Reserves.
The M60E3 (MG not tank) is in limited service here and there.
Saw recently that the Russians are producing a kit to convert their tank mounted (RPT?) anti-air defensive machine gun into a man portable squad machine gun. Somewhere around 30 pounds, but manageable. That would be along the thinking of the above post.
ReplyDeleteIf you're thinking of the .50 on the roof that'd be the NSVT or DShK on older tanks. Those are more than 50 lb. just for the gun. I don't think they mount a PKMT up top regularly, that's a solenoid fired coaxial gun without sights of stocks.
DeleteAnd something that someone in Twilight: 2000 (or Ukraine) would definitely rig for ground use!
I'd love to see a link to what you saw. I love saying, "look, see? This stuff happens in the real world too!"
PKTM is the tank version of the PKM, not PKMT... Stupid fat fingers.
DeleteWhen I was mobilized in early 2003 for OIF 1 to help bring a Georgia ARNG unit up to strength, the paragraph/line number in which I was slotted had a pig as an assigned weapon.
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