Originally Posted by jackehammond

In fact the US Army and Marines should both consider a one time buy of stocks of M72s for use in places like Afghanistan. They are perfect for bunker busting and taking out light armor but not powerful enough to be a threat to US Abrams or Bradleys if captured by the bad guys.


Finally, there is one weapon I can not figure out why the US Army is so resistant to. That is rifle grenades. Not the one that is fired from the unit located below the barrel of the assault rifle but those that are stuck on the end of the barrel of a rifle. They make them now with bullet traps so you don't have to load a special round (ie or worry about accidently using a real battle round), that can be fired from the shoulder (ie use to be if you fired a rifle grenade from the shoulder you would break it) and they have pop up sights and a good rifle grenades man can put them through windows and bunker slits. The USMC in the late 1990 tested the Israeli rifle grenades and were all for them, but the US Army (ie while the US Army does not control the USMC they can effect its purchasing) was totally against rifle grenades. Go figure.('')