Comments by "" (@RedXlV) on "Shooting the EM-2 in .280 British" video.

  1. Honestly, they should've just kept developing the EM-2 the whole time. Though really, all of this can be traced back to Douglas MacArthur's penny-pinching in 1932, when he insisted that the M1 Garand fire .30-06 instead of .276 Pedersen because lots of ammo was already stockpiled (by which logic no army should change rifle calibers, ever). If not for that then NATO standard caliber would've become a 7mm, either the .280 British or an American cartridge with roughly the same ballistics. And to this day we'd probably see the British Army using an EM-2 variant, most of the rest of NATO using the FAL, and the US Army using a 7mm AR-10 variant.
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  2. Honestly the UK should've brought back out the EM-2 and 7x43mm round when the new round of NATO standardization trials came around instead of developing the SA80 in (originally) 4.85x49mm. Just said "these were the ideal rifle and cartridge in 1951, and they still are the ideal rifle and cartridge in 1977." Granted, the US still would've forced everybody to adopt the American round, but still.
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  3. Ian, was this the "original" .280 British round or the more powerful versions that were created in an attempt to appease the Americans? If the latter, do you think a lower velocity 7mm would've been controllable on full auto for short bursts?
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