Hey, GJO if you red the paper link by Warren Peace, about your previous remark that surely they did design the right way... I just came across this passage:
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... In the meantime, while Dönitz awaited the committee’s findings, Dr. Cornelius and his AGC had been hard at work carrying out intensive tests of the impact pistol. The results, which were presented on May 1, were “worse than could ever have been suspected.” Not only was it proved that the AZ pistol was susceptible to a high percentage of failures as a result of the premature release of the firing pin, a fact which Cornelius attributed to its poor and overly complex design, but apparently the pistol had been cleared in peacetime as ready for front-line use after passing a “proving trial” which consisted of only two partially successful shots! “A method of working
such as this,” Dönitz wrote, “can only be regarded as criminal.”
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RL tests, go figure RL design!
Btw, very intresting thread, thanks to all for the info shared here
