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From: kjetil@ifi.uio.no (Holm-Kjetil Holmsen)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Re : Small Arms (British Guns)
Message-ID: <1991Mar14.015042.18808@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 14 Mar 91 01:50:42 GMT
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From: kjetil@ifi.uio.no (Holm-Kjetil Holmsen)

In article <1991Mar8.023930.10868@cbnews.att.com>, mhr@compsci.aberystwyth.ac.uk (M Richards) writes:
> 
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> phased in from about 1985 when they appeared in Northern Ireland. Their first
> couple of years were a bit troublesome with the mechanism tending to seize in
> extremely cold weather, such as in the Norweigan winter exercises held by the
> Royal Marines. I think these problems have been solved now.

An other problem the Royal Marines have had in Norway, is that an optical
sight really doesn't work that well in the wintertime.  The optics fog over
easly, not only from ones breath but also from ones perspiration.  This
freezes in the cold, rendering the sight useless.  I understand they use 
the (also standard) iron sights when coming over here.  Apartt from that,
I'd like to trade in my G3 for SA 80 any day :-)

Holm-Kjetil Holmsen, Cand.Scient student	email: kjetil@ifi.uio.no
Dept of Informatics
University of Oslo
NORWAY