just as a side-note. Having had a pleasure to use both Galil automatic rifle and M16 and having taken both of them apart as part of my compulsory military training I can only say that given a choice I'd prefer Galil (or in fact any AK74 remake) over much more complex M16.
AK74 has deliciously simple design with only a handful of quite large moving parts, which makes it highly reliable and extremely easy to maintain even in most unfavorable of circumstances. M16 operation mechanism seemed overly too complex in comparison and had many moving parts, some of which were quite small. Undoubtedly M16 has proven itself to be quite a versatile weapon and good piece engineering, but just for maintainability, AK models (and in particular Galil) are just pure work of genius and as I mentioned above, given a choice I'd prefer Galil over M16 any day (well ... except for weekends maybe, when I generally do stuff for fun...) esmaspäev, 13. juuni 2011 19:55.43 UTC+3 kirjutas Cédric Beust ♔: > > Assuming that these 1,000 smaller components cost less than the 3,000, > which is rarely the case in manufacturing. And that they are easy to > service, and reliable, and long-lasting, and easy to find, and that you can > retrain your workers quickly to understand how they work and how to fix them > You need to make a case for all these dimensions of the problem, it's not as > simple as saying "1,000 vs 3,000". > > -- > Cédric > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/javaposse/-/lGXFwL9V0ZIJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
