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A thread about "The Ideal Calibre Panel".
This is the nickname for a panel of people involved in trying to identify the "ideal" calibre for small arms post-1945.
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The Panel came into being following a recommendation of the Standard SAA Round Sub-Committee which met on 8 February 1945.
This was a sub-committee of the Standing Committee on Infantry Weapons Development, that was created following the GS policy to adopt rimless SAA.
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Note the framing as the identification of an "Ideal".
The use of this word is political.
It is designed to push the principal actors who had different views about small arms towards the solution being worked on by Brigadier Barlow and the Armament Design Establishment.
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Thread on Brigadier Barlow here:
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Thread on the Armament Design Establishment and the Design Department
This is the nickname for a panel of people involved in trying to identify the "ideal" calibre for small arms post-1945.
1a/
The Panel came into being following a recommendation of the Standard SAA Round Sub-Committee which met on 8 February 1945.
This was a sub-committee of the Standing Committee on Infantry Weapons Development, that was created following the GS policy to adopt rimless SAA.
1b/
Note the framing as the identification of an "Ideal".
The use of this word is political.
It is designed to push the principal actors who had different views about small arms towards the solution being worked on by Brigadier Barlow and the Armament Design Establishment.
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Thread on Brigadier Barlow here:
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So I said that I'd pick up the story of Brigadier Barlow in a subsequent thread.
— Dr Matthew Ford (@warmatters) January 3, 2021
Alongside Colonel Ren\xe9 Studler of the US Ordnance Corps, Brigader Barlow was instrumental in the post-war discussions of small arms ammunition and weapon standardisation.
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Thread on the Armament Design Establishment and the Design Department
A thread on the Armament Design Establishment (SA).
— Dr Matthew Ford (@warmatters) December 31, 2020
If we're going to talk post-war small arms & NATO small arms and ammunition standardisation then we also have to talk about the ADE(SA).
This is a photo of the entire Cheshunt establishment in 1945.
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