Creature Comfort: Boys Warfare Post

was thinking of doing my weekly update post but realised that i really dun have that much to update about these days as i'm a pretty boring dude and i'm just waiting for SPRTE to roll around and Japan mission..pretty retarded if u ask mi..will update everyone about my battle at packing everything away for storage cos college is gonna kick me out on 29 Nov..dun worry, they do that for all college students cos thats when our contract ends and Summer accomodation begins and the money-grubbing b*st*rds need the rooms for rentin to summer students..hey but no complaints..capitalism has no heart u should noe if u wanna stay in a Bourgeois country..but that update later..first..

i recall a conversation with Tim Wong last year where we had a typical boys' talk about warfare and weapons and which gun u like versus which gun i like...n i realise that i miss that convo n the ex-radiology student..n i never got around to doing a post in honour of ya Timo (the Hom..never mind ;-) well if you're reading this Timo i hope ya like it..hang in there in pilot training ol' buddy...n gals, i'm sorry we're losing ya from this moment on..

now, Tim i noe we disagree on weapons and u think i have weird tastes and i think u've got too conventional western-indoctrinated tastes..so u like the M-16 (n i've fired it before) whereas i prefer the Ak-74 (not the earlier 47 version)...but still, u gotta agree, the world's best n most terrifying machine gun is...

Maschinengewerh MG-42

sounds like ripping cloth and with a rate of fire up to 1200 rounds per minute..chambered for the 7.92 X 57mm Mauser round..psychologically terrifying for troops that have ever faced it in action..roller-locked short recoil action for the bolt..too bad the poor Soviets din copy it and place it in production the way they copied the Sturmgewehr 44/45 and turned it into the famous AK-47...most important of all to those of us who have fired real machine guns before like the Fabrique Nationale (FN) MAG aka GPMG..it is extremely resistant to dust and dirt, weighs only 11.6 kg versus the 11.79 kg weight of the GPMG (n considering that the MG-42 fires a 7.92 mm cartridge versus 7.62mm for the GPMG, this is significant)..

i fantasized firing this weapon and throwing molotov cocktails (that other famous weapon) during the last day of my A-levels..n there were so many times in the SAF i was tempted to treat my GPMG like an MG-42 and turn it on my officers..now u noe how du-l*n i was with some ocs-iffers back then..actually dun need GPMG, SAR-21 can already...apologies to all my Second Lieutenant and First Lieutenant friends hor..this Third Sergeant (NS) say some not so nice things tonite..but i'm prob not talking about u if u are my fren..

by the way, there is a successor to the MG-42..in the post-ww2 German Budeswehr, the MG-42 was modernised and used as the MG3..similar except that it was now chambered for the 7.62 x 51mm NATO round.. n they still use it today..due to be retired in 2011..but still going strong after all these years..