Quote Originally Posted by =sw=warlord View Post
Kornman i seem to remember reading somewhere that technology tends to speed up in war's not slow down, look at the manhattan project for instance, if we hadn't been in such a desparate need to end the war soon we wouldn't have even looked into nuclear weapons.
Many modern technology used these days were made during war time.
Advances speed up in areas that need them. For a service rifle, you aren't going to ditch your entire setup for a new gun when your current one works just fine for killing your enemy. Case in point, the Lee-Enfield; the Brits intended to replace it with a new rifle just before the First World War, but because they entered the war (), they couldn't do that. They needed to equip their men right then and there.