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**Buzz** · 29-05-2012, 21:02

Originally Posted by Gadgwah

Yes, so I am thinking that why are they dragging out some 30 something year old bit of kit when they have all the other shiny kit going for them.

I had not realised that they had had some serious upgrades done to them.
Having now dug up some pictures of the "old" Charlie G and compared it, yes you can see a difference, but at the time, As I said, genuine question.

Cheers
Gadge

Here is the thing.

Just because it is an older design it does not mean it is a bad design or that it can always be improved upon by a different or new weapon, that type of thinking is how troops get saddled with expensive shit that doesn't work.

Every time some knobber decides it's time for a switch to a different weapon system a new conflict turns up and proves the current thinking wrong.

I think you are struggling with this as you don't know the difference between the big disposable weapons and a proper recoiless rifle.

Even without the lighter tube it's still a better weapon for the theatre than a disposable that only does one thing.

**CaptainPlume** · 29-05-2012, 22:38

Originally Posted by ugly

What was that about a night sight being available? Havent you heard of the IWS?

Coo, that picture's all faded and stuff. What kind of phone did you take it on? Bet it was a really gay one in the olden days

**ugly** · 30-05-2012, 08:30

I do believe you full well know there werent mobile phones then let alone ones with cameras! That was taken with a real camera using real film! Also a real light leak hence the replacement with an Olympus trip 35!

**CaptainPlume** · 30-05-2012, 09:09

Originally Posted by ugly

I do believe you full well know there werent mobile phones then let alone ones with cameras! That was taken with a real camera using real film! Also a real light leak hence the replacement with an Olympus trip 35!

Failed wah!

I had the piss taken endlessly at Rugby this season when I pulled out my Canon EOS 1000 wet film camera. "The '80s called and want their kit back," was one cry.

I see no point in replacing it or my Olympus mju Zoom until either 35mm film becomes unavailable or they break. I also think my photography is slightly more skilled because of the expense of processing the pictures - if one can blat away in the photographic equivalent of a Beirut unload then photoshop everything one no longer considers the skills of getting apperture, exposure & framing right.

MrsPlume has some lovely pictures of us all (she uses some kind of Nikon DSLR) but they come from literally thousands and a good weekend can se her spending several days editing.

**pimpernel** · 30-05-2012, 09:28

Does any one remember a rather spectacular DD (deliberate discharge) that did the rounds of the SASC in the late 70's before gay phones when real men were all nails! The Booties did a skill at arms lesson in a portacabin with the 84 and got the training rounds mixed up with a TPTP and planked a round through the walls. Not sure what the backblast did to the pretty cross sections of the SLRs on the walls but there must have been a number of hearing disability claims!

**goatrutar** · 31-05-2012, 03:46

^. If it was inside a small building like that I'd be surprised no one was killed. The backblast from an 84 was delightful.

**ugly** · 31-05-2012, 06:35

Originally Posted by goatrutar

^. If it was inside a small building like that I'd be surprised no one was killed. The backblast from an 84 was delightful.

It was a portacabin so blast wasn't as bad it seems! I seem to remember it was Magilligan camp for some reason!

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**pimpernel** · 31-05-2012, 09:00

Originally Posted by ugly

It was a portacabin so blast wasn't as bad it seems! I seem to remember it was Magilligan camp for some reason!

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Yup thats the one.