{"id":21869,"date":"2023-02-08T07:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/08\/ask-ian-last-ditch-rifles-for-world-war-iii\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T07:00:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T13:00:02","slug":"ask-ian-last-ditch-rifles-for-world-war-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/08\/ask-ian-last-ditch-rifles-for-world-war-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask Ian: &#8220;Last Ditch&#8221; Rifles for World War III?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1SDL4n8yUe8?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From Thunderchild on Patreon:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How would you see a modern major nation (US, USSR\/Russia, China, etc) simplify their small arms in a large scale war, WW3 or Cold War gone hot? You&#8217;ve mentioned in the past how most nations end up having to simplify to meet demands, so why not start simplified?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The reason for simplified small arms is to increase production speed. During peacetime deployment of new arms, it generally doesn&#8217;t really matter how long manufacturing takes, and enough rifles will be built for the standing army and some predetermined number of reserve weapons. Last-ditch guns become a necessity when battlefield wastage and increased conscription combine to demand arms well beyond the production capacity of a country&#8217;s industrial base. The only solution is to simplify the design to decrease production time &#8211; and the simplifications can&#8217;t hinder the effectiveness or safety of the weapon, or else there is no point in producing them in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Contact:<br \/>Forgotten Weapons<br \/>6281 N. Oracle 36270<br \/>Tucson, AZ 85740<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeaponshttp:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com From Thunderchild on Patreon: &#8220;How would you see a modern major nation (US, USSR\/Russia, China, etc) simplify their small arms in a large scale war, WW3 or Cold War gone hot? You&#8217;ve mentioned in the past how most nations end up having to simplify to meet demands, so why&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/08\/ask-ian-last-ditch-rifles-for-world-war-iii\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ask Ian: &#8220;Last Ditch&#8221; Rifles for World War III?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":21870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}