AHC/WI: No McNamara Cuts

Delta Force

Banned
By the time Vietnam rolled around we had stopped producing M14 so in order to equip the troops we would've sent we would've needed to resort to using the M1 again. While the AF was willing to use the AR-15 McNamara had to shove the AR-15 down the Army's throat.

Wouldn't they just restart production and/or adopt a new rifle?
 
Wouldn't they just restart production and/or adopt a new rifle?

M14 production didn't end till 1964, unit cost was around $105 to $80, depending on the contractor. TRW wasn't making much money on that last batch, but were the better quality-wise and accuracy than the Winchester or H&R.

TRW only started production in late '61 IIRC

Colt's Unit Price was $110 for the M16, BTW.

Now with a different SecDef, TRW would have kept making M14s on all that new tooling they bought to make those rifles.

They didn't realize that the M14 would be jettisoned after only one contract.

That was unheard of for a US Service Rifle
 

Archibald

Banned
DynaSoar !! If only a pair of X-20 had been build, and flight tested, the space shuttle program might have been entirely different, or perhaps it would have never happened in the first place.

McNamara replaced DynaSoar by MOL, so that wouldn't exist. Which doesn't change anything since MOL was canned in 1969.
 
F-105: 1,500 Ds instead of the 700+ built (total with Bs and F/G totaled 833), plus a proposed RF-105 tac recon version.

F-12B Interceptor....

U.S.S. John F. Kennedy (CVA-67) at the time was originally planned as a second Enterprise-class ship. No thanks to Mac....

And the most important thing about no MacNamara, other than no micromanagement of the air war in Southeast Asia: NO WHIZ KIDS!
 
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