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6 hours ago, Laser Shark said:

British Jaegers as an homage to the Hessian regiments?

Why stop there?

Lets have a return to húskarls.

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If you don't press fit your barrels, repalcing them is not so hard. So even if you do shoot a king's ransom annually, you just swap them out with the bolts as needed. If you aren't training Company Bn armorers to do this, you are muppets.

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6 hours ago, shep854 said:

Weren't there some British Rangers during the 1776 dustup?

Which is I believe what your Rangers trace their legacy from. I think they were American colonists, not British Army.

Ok, im being overly pedantic about this. But if America raised a Gurkha Regiment, im sure there would be a few eyebrows raised. 😄

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5 hours ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

Which is I believe what your Rangers trace their legacy from. I think they were American colonists, not British Army.

Ok, im being overly pedantic about this. But if America raised a Gurkha Regiment, im sure there would be a few eyebrows raised. 😄

'Roger's Rangers' during the French and Indian War; there were some specialist British units during the Revolution, I believe, that were raised from Loyalists.

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2 hours ago, shep854 said:

'Roger's Rangers' during the French and Indian War; there were some specialist British units during the Revolution, I believe, that were raised from Loyalists.

Well yes, American Colonists. Its those colonists your Rangers trace their ancestry from.

I suppose we COULD call them the North American Rifles, if we are so desperate to appeal to the Pentagon.

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It's an AR, two pins and done, send the "worn" stuff back to 3rd echelon for remanufacture.  This is 102 IQ apprentice level machinist work.  Nitrided, hard chromed, some form of PVD coating, it's just whatever relative $ you want to spend for more durability vs having more spares for the given value  of $X.  The high end will be carbon fiber wrapped inconel/hasteloy/stellite or something along those lines, probably with some form of PVD coating.  S/F....Ken M  

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9 hours ago, EchoFiveMike said:

It's an AR, two pins and done, send the "worn" stuff back to 3rd echelon for remanufacture.  This is 102 IQ apprentice level machinist work.  Nitrided, hard chromed, some form of PVD coating, it's just whatever relative $ you want to spend for more durability vs having more spares for the given value  of $X.  The high end will be carbon fiber wrapped inconel/hasteloy/stellite or something along those lines, probably with some form of PVD coating.  S/F....Ken M  

I was wondering how many M16s the US (Army, USAF, USN & USMC) was storing in the UK at the end of the cold war. I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't enough supply the RN, RAF, Marines and SAS. I'm sure the US would have given the British Government a friends and "Cousins" deal. Then replace the uppers and lowers when they wear out. Isn't it how the Isrealis do it.

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7 hours ago, DougRichards said:

Just call the unit the 95th (Rifle) Regiment.  

 

Which latterly became the Rifle Brigade and then the Royal Green Jackets (I still grieve for the loss of that most excellent Regiment).

They should have reformed the Rifle Brigade, its the logical conclusion based on it having a similar role to the original 95th and 60th North American Rifles.

Its complicated by one of the more stupid Army amalgamations turning a lot of county Regiments into anonymous 'Rifle' Regiments, but its still better than shopping out for names with no real history in the British Army. As said, we may as called them bloody Zouaves.

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Just reading a book today, and a Regimental name sprang out at me. The Royal Irish Rangers. Goddamit, I forgot them. The rest of my day is ruined. 😑 Well it was part of that strange 1968 review...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Irish_Rangers#:~:text=The Royal Irish Rangers (27th (Inniskilling)%2C 83rd and,1992 to form the Royal Irish Regiment .

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When I first saw a reference to British Army 'Rangers', I felt it was rather incongruous as well.  'Rifles' would indeed be a more Anglo-centric name.

Anything from HK proposing the 416?

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On 8/6/2021 at 9:33 AM, Stuart Galbraith said:

The SAS has/had their own funding to buy whatever weapons they wanted. I think they even had Minimi's before the rest of the Army. Ditto M203's, which I think they used as early as Pebble Island.

That is pretty much how most SF work, can get "almost anything", since they have their own purchase budget.

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