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The L85 assault rifle has been deemed "unsafe" by health and safety experts at the ministry of defence. An insider was quoted as saying "Someone could get killed with one of these things".
Front line troops are being issued with water bomb catapult systems to provide a safer method of "contacting" hostiles. However contoversy has plagued the initiative as the MoD procurement department has contracted to pay £50 a unit when similar weapons systems are on sale in Pounland for only £1.
If the MOD were tasked to procure water bombs now then you won't see them until 2030, and they will be engineered so as not to break on impact. To Quote Milton Jones "My Grandad was a hoarder, he could never let anything go. That's why he died throwing a handgrenade".
You'd still need the goggles, and a written disclaimer that everyone was was willing to be shot.
What if all wars were fought on X-Box "Tour of Duty", repleat with teanagers using headsets and shouting "I just t-bagged a dead dude"? I think the drone planes are getting pretty close to that. USAF could just outsource Afghanistan to a bunch of kids playing a flight sim.
Couldn't we have viewers, on BBC3, showing 572 methods of dispatching Andy McNab?
Respect, Arnie
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