THE ENEMY AND 'THE DOORS!
show is the new hi-tech rifle Beretta ARX160 can fire behind the walls.
An in-depth Antonio Camuso 's Observatory on the Balkans in Brindisi
The news of the official presentation of the new Beretta ARX160 that will be used in the experimental stage by special units of the Italian army, it is these days .
That Beretta worked on the study and testing of this rifle was known for some time and that it was part of that project Future Soldier carried on with pride by the Defence and industry sector, it could be read in all military journals for at least ten years. The wait for the first out in public in recent times had become spasmodic because there was a risk, following the U.S. elections, to assist the withdrawal of Italian troops from the one in front of "hot war" and its failure to put in line "operational" field testing and final jewel Beretta.
a shame if they were, because by the time our armed forces in their missions of peace "abroad have become the best advertisement for the sellers of weapons made in Italy.
The announcement, March 31, 2009, the official blessing of Neptune in the polygon of what should become the standard weapon system of the Italian soldiers, used in the endless global war, came a few hours prior to the NATO meeting that sanctioned the increase of troops and logistics from all participants in operations in Afghanistan, including Italy and its forecast that the new ARX160 in that context can be soon honor and advertising.
The enemy is near!
addition to its mechanical nature of innovations (use of lightweight materials, composites and the ability to change size, and ergonomics), the piece de resistance are the optical systems through which this gun will allow the soldier to shoot to keep the body hidden from the firing line, the so-called shooting absent. One option miraculous how they defined the enthusiastic media commentators, but that brings us back mournfully to other times, when the need to shoot from behind the walls became the pressing worry for the Nazi army besieged and forced to fight house to house in Germany itself, under the pressure of the Red Army troops. There
invention of German scientists tried to square the circle, or better to bend the trajectory of the bullets of the rifles in order to shoot the German infantry being hidden behind street corners
This led to the gun Stg.44 more as an accessory Krummerlauf with a cane at an angle from 30 ° C (That is considered better for accuracy than for the stress on the shell and the length of the barrel) with a Zeiss optical system in the past few months 100,000 copies were produced and subsequently fell into the hands of the Allies.
Today the enemy is coming, as confirmed by those who advertise the future scope of use of this weapon system: the war now being fought in cities, yet the Southern Hemisphere but it could spread under the thrust of the global capitalist crisis and a likely fall of social stability, even in our cities, involving the weaker social strata and numerous, multiplying until the enemies to make them become the vast mass identical to that in uniform with the red star, the soldiers found themselves in the Whermacht try to stem the last 45 months of
The ideal weapon for non-conventional scenarios
today (and even more in the future ) armies are at war against civilians in rebel arms for various reasons and otherwise, in common epithet of international terrorists, need to be driven back out of the red lines of the city, the suburbs of the metropolis, from caves or from the highlands desert.
Against this enemy that increases in number, as the crisis of the capitalist system is becoming more serious, not enough drones or stealth bombers and push it from uptown or drilling platforms, we must reject it street by street, and a gun as the ARX160 seems to be less than ideal. But suffice?
For mopping up operations in class neighborhoods, to break through doors and walls and gates should be properly designed launcher GLX160, a small and effective gun capable of pulling 40 grenades and 46 mm, inserted in the barrel of ARX 160 and makes it highly versatile half-insurgency and the devastating power.
The GLX160
It 's a gem dell'antiguerriglia that urban version rifle is not equipped with special handle, while the single version, for police and riot control is a real shotgun antidimostrante and unfortunately we will see very soon in action here and in other places on the planet in revolt.
If these means can stop the course of history need only wait for events and find out if, as it was in the past, the weapons falling into the oppressor than the oppressed will determine his release.
E 'already happened at Little Big Horn where the horses and Winchester fell in the hands of the Indians became the weapon that defeated Custer or Vietnam in 1957 where the weapons falling in the hands of the Japanese Army the Vietnamese defeated the French at Dien Bien Phu
The ideal weapon of the terrorist guerrilla
The ease of disassembly (no tools it disassembles but simply relying on the hooks with the tip of a bullet) , the reduced number of components, lack of safety equipment (ie blocks on the secure password), it makes the weapon in seconds snatched from the hands of the enemy becomes an integral part of the guerrilla
The ability to quickly change the barrel, shutter and direction of expulsion of the bullet, cause a difficulty in tracing the weapon if used in attacks, because the bullet every time you change barrel moderate its mark and the marks left on cartridge cases change changing shutter and method (right / left) of expulsion.
The same capability can be used and modified by shooting left or right, do it more easily accessible to irregular combatants in that mix left-handed, right-handed or ambidextrous. Finally, the near absence of maintenance, light weight and change their size are ideal for an irregular army in which calibers of weapons used were never standardized: in this case, you just get some 'shut-off of rods and parts and in the absence of U.S. and NATO to 5.56 bullets you can use the good old 7.62 or vice versa.
Not everything that glitters is gold
In the blog discussion of the Italian soldiers who have tested it turns out that what is the main dish dell'ARX160, or optical tracking system, is basically a problem in theater of operations: if it goes haywire in the heat of the action or simply becomes impractical to move onto the conventional optical viewfinder is not easy, as we need to be realigned and now our "friends Rambo counselors" advise you have at hand dear AK47 old who never leaves you in his underwear when he shoots and makes a mess of the devil. If they say our advisers in uniform we really believe them, considering that they have come in Iraq, put his hands on kalashinov, they were so enthusiastic that they made a feast smuggled into Italy a fine assortment.
pity that they were "Stay" from CC and Finance, but the investigation ended with tarallucci and souvenir wine lovers and the military had only a pull of ears instead of a better indictment of international trafficking in weapons of war ...
Antonio Camuso
osservatoriobrindisi@libero.it
Brindisi April 5, 2009
