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Old 06-20-11, 03:18 PM   #15
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This being the Internet it is essential to ascribe all things German as engineering marvels from which the rest of the world can only produce inferior copies. Such too is the frequent editorial stance of technical bibles like Popular Mechanics magazine.

You know, the same people who every decade predict the flying car?

It doesn't matter; German weapons, ships, planes, soldiers, leadership and blah, blah, blah all worshipped as superior to all else and the root of everybody successful designs.

Never mind the external and internal similarities between the original AK-47 and the much earlier SVT-40 that was in large scale service with Soviet Naval Infantry before Barbarossa. (I have owned and used both)

Never mind that in engineering similar problems tend to result in similar solutions and this is seldom more true than in the field of military hardware.

This is an existential discussion akin to the question of how many angels can swim in the head of a beer. Those who are already convinced of the superiority of all things German will just ignore the vast amount evidence to the contrary while seeking refuge in semantics and the splitting of hairs.
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