Hooray! I’m glad to have done the unthinkable then, aha.
Yeah, as much as there often is merit to criticizing aspects of many elements of military gear… a lot of those criticisms get overblown and recontextualized to seemingly comparable other kinds of goods or equipment in a way that kind of misses certain crucial aspects.
Maybe an actual good example of ‘Military Grade’ actually meaning ‘crap’ would be the kind of gunpowder used in the earlier production of 5.56 rounds for the first generation of M16s in Vietnam.
That is an actual case where going to the lowest bidder for what turned out to be gunpowder that burned too dirty for early M16s, combined with a lot of hype around the M16 being ‘self-cleaning’ leading to initially no or very few cleaning kits being issued… yeah that led to a whole lot of the guns jamming up.
But this doesnt mean you can just blanket point to all military grade stuff and say its garbage.
Hooray! I’m glad to have done the unthinkable then, aha.
Yeah, as much as there often is merit to criticizing aspects of many elements of military gear… a lot of those criticisms get overblown and recontextualized to seemingly comparable other kinds of goods or equipment in a way that kind of misses certain crucial aspects.
Maybe an actual good example of ‘Military Grade’ actually meaning ‘crap’ would be the kind of gunpowder used in the earlier production of 5.56 rounds for the first generation of M16s in Vietnam.
That is an actual case where going to the lowest bidder for what turned out to be gunpowder that burned too dirty for early M16s, combined with a lot of hype around the M16 being ‘self-cleaning’ leading to initially no or very few cleaning kits being issued… yeah that led to a whole lot of the guns jamming up.
But this doesnt mean you can just blanket point to all military grade stuff and say its garbage.