Originally Posted by
NutLoose
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Just not the ideal weapon in my eyes for airfield defence because if you were shooting at intruders on the airfield any missed rounds would be going into the other squadrons site.
This was the subject of some debate back in the 70s. The suggestion was that Ground Defence personnel, inside the wire, should be armed with shotguns to minimise the risk of collateral damage. Indeed, this was my chosen subject for my presentation on some course or other back then (OJMC, perhaps?). The average airman would be able to snap-shoot accurately with an SLR at anything much smaller than a hangar door
