Comments by "" (@RedXlV) on "British EM-2: The Best Cold War Battle Rifle that Never Was" video.

  1. Amazingly enough, it was one man (Colonel Rene Studler) who pretty much singlehandedly ensured that the US would not accept any cartridge that wasn't .30 caliber. And then within a decade was also responsible for going to the opposite extreme and having the US adopt a .22 caliber assault rifle.
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  2. Scissors586 The FAL was an objectively superior battle rifle to the M14. That's why the US trials to select the M14 over the FAL had to be straight-up rigged to get the result they wanted. The Pentagon also concealed their own cartridge experiments from the rest of NATO that proved a smaller intermediate caliber was ideal for an infantry rifle, just so they could force through the inferior .308 round instead of the .280 British because the .308 was an American design.
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  3. Scissors586 Pretty much everyone did use the FAL for decades, aside from the Communist nations that were given AK-47s for free. If the FAL was a worse battle rifle than the M14, why didn't everybody use the M14?
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  4. Huesudo Part of what got the M14 adopted was the promise it could be built using existing M1 Garand production lines, which would supposedly make it much cheaper than adopting the FAL. Spoiler alert: it couldn't be, and it wasn't. That was just a lie the Pentagon fed to Congress.
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  5. Because Churchill, the supposedly "strong" British leader, had decided that Britain's role in the world should be "America's submissive lapdog". And he got his way, with every PM since following suit.
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