• PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPM
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      3 days ago

      The classic Sten, made by numerous experienced professionals in employ of one of the most powerful militaries in the world at the time.

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        Seems a bit unfair to compare a mass manufacturing SMG to a sniper rifle, but it is funny, yeah.

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              Gotta love the Mosquito.

              SOE: “Ok chaps, we’ve got to free a bunch of resistance fighters in France from prison because we need more information about the V1 and V2. Here’s the prison, now how do we break them out?”

              Bomber Harris: Hmmmm (looks at the RAF Mosquito 140 Wing)

              SOE: Any ideas?

              Bomber Harris: (mutters to himself) Bomb Bowling.

              SOE: Excuse me?

              Bomber Harris: I said BOMB BOWLING!

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        I forget the name, but I believe it’s the one where Accuracy International – a company that was 3 guys in a shed at the time – submitted their sniper rifle for military testing just to see how it would do, and they were asked for some impossible number of them because it was way better than what the big established companies offered.

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    Trick question… they both look like crudely slapped together piles of sheet metal.

    Seriously… who makes a sniper rifle and not bother to paint it?