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Kelmola:
I don't know if the individual components would require stamping, but the Blyskawica SMG was designed not to use welding and to be manufactured in small workshops. Scaling that to use a pistol cartridge available in a given year could be a possiblity. .45 Long Colt?

jcf:

--- Quote from: Kelmola on September 17, 2020, 02:30:29 AM ---I don't know if the individual components would require stamping, but the Blyskawica SMG was designed not to use welding and to be manufactured in small workshops. Scaling that to use a pistol cartridge available in a given year could be a possiblity. .45 Long Colt?

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Yes, but they all use readily available thinwall steel tubing, not something you're going to have available
in period. Welded pipe is available and the first semi-mass production of seamless steel tube was
in its infancy, but none of it is what we'd consider thin-wall.

Buzzbomb:
Interesting concept. Some great discussion, much of it enlightening, which for this site.. is quite normal.

SM Stirling went down this path in Island in the Sea of Time, where the Island of Nantucket gets transported back to the Bronze Age. The development of weapons (The Bronze Age was a dangerous place) was priority with very limited manufacturing capability. Clearly replicating their current weapons was not an option. So much earlier and simpler weapons systems were used initially until the manufacturing base could be built up, such as a breach loading Flintlock, an amalgum of modern and practical. Plus there is the training to upskill Bronze Age people to use these weapons.

The proposal here is somewhat broadly similar, but there is greater industrial capacity but not for modern weapons in sufficient numbers. At least there is a core of trained troops in this scenario.
You would have to to think that the Tactics differential between the two time periods would make a difference as well. Force multipliers such as mines and Claymore like devices, should also be considered
 

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