Last WWI Rifle Armed Frontline Unit

[CountryGent]

Sort of an interesting one from the historian across the pond.

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[Andy54Hawken]

Neat video , will have to watch it .

Older rifles that were still in use when I was doing things that made life interesting....
1989...Invasion of Panama....M1 rifles were still in use by some PDF forces...weird being shot at , by a "good guy " rifle...
1990 -91 Desert Shield / Storm...Mauser rifles were seen from time to time....
1992..Bosnia ..Mauser rifles...Mosin Nagant rifles and carbines....were common....
1993...Mogadishu Somalia...Mausers...a few stray Lee-Enfields...even one ( at least ) M2 Carbine ..
Any of these places also made use of the AK-47 ....which could also be seen as "old"...

Old rifles still work for the job they were designed for...and a man killed or wounded by someone using one...
Is just as killed or wounded...as someone shot with a rifle made yesterday.
Andy

 

[echo1]

Wherever there's AKs there's SKSs. PAX

 

[Aero Denezol]

It is also weird seeing the Taliban run around with M16A2s. But then you think, some of those are 35 years old now.

 

[ma96782]

I can remember clearing a warehouse in Kalihi back in the day. My beat partner with his M1 carbine and me with my AR-15 SP-1.

Aloha, Mark

PS …..Oh Yeah…..I was real scared that my partner was gonna ventilate the mannequin at the top of the stairs. OMG…..I could just imagine trying to explain that one to the Sergeant.

 

[Oro]

Calling them a "front line" unit is quite a stretch…

Now Russian and DPR troops using Mosins in Ukraine at the moment is a fact.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ForgottenWeapons/comments/14m9lpx