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>which is why a big war is often also a big leap forward for science. Care to name any inventions we owe to... the Spanish-American war?
by whatshisface 4y ago
>which is why a big war is often also a big leap forward for science.
Care to name any inventions we owe to... the Spanish-American war?
- civilized 4y agoSure, there were about as many as there were dollars in the federal government's scientific budget at the time.
- whatshisface 4y agoThen a better hypothesis would be that the science budget makes progress happen, rather than the military budget.
- samatman 4y agoThe M1903 Springfield.
- paulmd 4y agoit's extremely humorous how "trend-chasing" the small arms market was at that time. First cartridges... then brass cartridges... then centerfire... then brass... then repeating weapons... then high-velocity cartridges... then spitzer point bullets... it's almost a Pentagon Wars style story chasing the latest technological developments and often trying to modify your existing inventory to fit the latest need. The Krag didn't have spitzer-point bullets so it had to go, despite poor tactics really being more at play than the rifles themselves. And the Krag was banned from the service-rifle category of the influential National Match shooting competition after some humiliating upsets showed this.
- AlgorithmicTime 4y ago