[ARC5] "Superior" Radios?

[gordon e. white]

Although the Germans learned to build aircraft quickly and cheaply in WW 
II - they built more in 1943 that in 1944  - and if you look at 
surviving examples you can see an acceptable level of "crudeness," some 
of their machinery was over-built, over-designed. They tended to a lot 
of hand-fitted parts in such things as Teletype machines and guns, with 
less parts interchangeability without hand-fitting. Think on the other 
hand of the American "grease gun,"  made of stamped parts. It wasn't all 
that accurate, but in a short-range fire fight, good enough.
    One of the beauties of the Soviet AK-47 was that it was able  to 
stand a lot more rough usage than the MG-47 or  the Schmeisser, even 
than the Luger or the WW I Mauser. The  German MGs all had a higher rate 
of fire than the Brownings, but the Browning was more reliable.

- Gordon

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