Quiz

PzKpfw_VI_Tiger · October 16, 2005, 2:17pm

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Hanz_Lutz · October 16, 2005, 3:58pm

Damn cheaters :lol: why dont just tell not check image . :lol: we will see next time ,Tiger your turn i think so. 8)

PzKpfw_VI_Tiger · October 16, 2005, 9:04pm

Ok question…

What rifle are these men firing and what company manufactures it?

Tsolias · October 16, 2005, 9:35pm

The XM8 by ATK (Alliant Techsystems)?

PzKpfw_VI_Tiger · October 16, 2005, 9:41pm

XM8 is correct - and the rifle uses componets made by ATK, but it is manufactured by ________ ?

Tsolias · October 16, 2005, 9:44pm

ARDEC ( U.S. Army Armament Research, Development, and Engineering Center)?

PzKpfw_VI_Tiger · October 16, 2005, 9:48pm

Sorry… No.

PzKpfw_VI_Tiger · October 16, 2005, 9:48pm

Hint: One of the founders of the company that now manufactures the XM8 is Alex Seidel. That probably gives it away… :o

Tsolias · October 16, 2005, 9:50pm

Sorry… No.[/quote]

Dam it i was pretty sure about that one… :evil:

PzKpfw_VI_Tiger · October 16, 2005, 9:51pm

Sorry… No.[/quote]

Dam it i was pretty sure about that one… :evil:[/quote]

:oops: Read my Hint

PzKpfw_VI_Tiger · October 16, 2005, 9:58pm

Should I give it away?

Tsolias · October 16, 2005, 10:11pm

Im finished with that :oops:

Anyone else wants to try?

PzKpfw_VI_Tiger · October 16, 2005, 10:16pm

Im finished with that :oops:

Anyone else wants to try?[/quote]

Dani…Clauss? Anyone wanna give it a shot?

PzKpfw_VI_Tiger · October 17, 2005, 12:07am

Bzzzzzzzzzzt… And the answer is Heckler & Kotch.

The XM8 is the project name for a lightweight assault rifle system under development by the German small arms manufacturer Heckler & Koch (H&K) on behalf of the U.S. Army. The Army’s main purpose in contracting for this prototype weapon is to provide replacement options for the venerable but aging M16 rifle, after the XM29 program ran into problems. The Army’s goal is a weapon that is cheaper, lighter, and more effective than the M16 and M4 Carbine series of weapons. The XM8 is not just one weapon, but a system which can be reconfigured with appropriate parts to be any one of several variants including a short-barreled personal defense weapon to a bipod-equipped support weapon.

The XM8 is based on the kinetic energy module of Alliant Techsystems’s XM29 OICW project, of which the weapon mechanisms were the responsibility of H&K. Following the indefinite delay of the OICW project, the U.S. Army requested that H&K design stand-alone weapons from the XM29’s kinetic energy and high explosive modules.

Note my Italics… That’s where Tsolias most likely got the idea that Alliant Techsystems was making the XM8.

-all info above taken from wikipedia-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XM8

PzKpfw_VI_Tiger · October 17, 2005, 12:08am

OK new question (should be relitively easy) - what is the highest official American Army Rank and how many stars are there in the insignia.

Gen_Sandworm · October 17, 2005, 7:17am

General of the Army. ww2admins rank…5 stars.

PzKpfw_VI_Tiger · October 17, 2005, 11:18am

General of the Army. ww2admins rank…5 stars.[/quote]

I’m terribly sorry - but no. That is the second highest rank in the American Army Heirarchy.

PzKpfw_VI_Tiger · October 17, 2005, 11:35am

That probably gives it away so here’s the answer:

General of the Armies of the United States of America. A 6 Star General. That is a position that has only been held by two people in history; George Washington (posthumiously) and John J. Pershing.

George Washinton (left) and Pershing (right)

The Six Star Rank

PzKpfw_VI_Tiger · October 17, 2005, 11:40am

A little more info about it’s 6 Star Rank:

Wikipedia:

Whether or not General of the Armies is a six-star rank will most likely remain unanswered unless the United States Congress ever again appoints anyone to the position. This almost occurred in 1945, as part of the preparation for the invasion of Japan, when a proposal was discussed in the War Department to appoint Douglas MacArthur to the rank of General of the Armies. Following the use of the atomic bomb in August 1945, however, the proposal to promote MacArthur to General of the Armies was dropped.

The matter was raised again in 1955, when the United States Congress considered a bill authorizing President Dwight D. Eisenhower to promote Douglas MacArthur to General of the Armies, in recognition of his many years of service. At that time, the Army Judge Advocate General warned that, should MacArthur accept promotion to the new rank, he would lose a large amount of retirement pay and benefits associated with the much more firmly-established rank of five-star General of the Army, which he still held. The Army General Staff was also concerned that George C. Marshall was senior to MacArthur and that, should MacArthur be made a General of the Armies, a similar measure would have to be passed, promoting George Marshall, as well. Due to the various complications, MacArthur declined promotion and the bill to promote him was dropped.

In 1945, the Institute of Heraldry prepared a conjectural insignia which would have incorporated a sixth star into the five-star design of General of the Army. As no proposal to appoint a new General of the Armies was ever firmly developed, the United States Army has never officially approved a six-star general insignia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_of_the_Armies

Please, someone post another question.

Hanz_Lutz · October 17, 2005, 2:10pm

Dani’s turn,or i am wrong.