[Amps] Hipersil, the myth and the truth. (Updated)

[Will Matney]

Peter,

I dont know what a full pack weighs now (70 LBs?)? But, if they keep adding and adding to these poor dough boys, before long you wont be able to see them for all the stuff hanging on them. Same goes with the rollong stock. Plus watching a plane, after a new retrofit roll down the tarmak, and just two itty bitty holes for um to peer out of.

Really, the US specs on equipment makes um have to build stuff like a Sherman tank and try to make it as light as possible. Someone told me they finally did away with the steel pots and are now using helmets made of Kevlar back around Nam or shortly thereafter. I'm not sure on this though. Problem is, since they got this weight savings, somebody will add something else to take its place in weight.

Best,

Will

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On 4/21/05 at 4:42 AM G3rzp at aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 21/04/2005 04:53:36 GMT Standard Time, craxd1 at ezwv.com writes:
About the only thing I can think of is weight, which the military sure does look at.
Not very well. The British Army has just got around to getting the replacements for the late 1960's designed 'Clansman' series radios. Besides squaddies getting RF burns off the antennas (!), some of the newer stuff for mounting in jeep size vehicles has been so heavy in comparison with the stuff it replaced that the vehicle springs broke! The new systems is called 'Bowman': apparently the Army claim that's an acronym for 'Better Off With Map And Nokia'. It would appear that creeping specmanship has really screwed up yet another British military programme.

Not that the SINCGARS saga in the US was that edifying.........

73

Peter G3RZP