Where should an Assault rifle be stored?

[sackett]

One argument for keeping the firelocks in individual homes is dispersal: It would be impossible for an invader to collect them all. Capturing an armory, however, would net all the rifles in a district at one blow.

But, as has been pointed out, individual shoulder weapons don't make infantry nearly as effective as in days of yore.

So a question: Where does the Swiss militia store its machine guns, mortars, anti-tank missiles, radios, land mines, grenades both hand and rifle, and anti-mortar radars?

 

[DC]

One argument for keeping the firelocks in individual homes is dispersal: It would be impossible for an invader to collect them all. Capturing an armory, however, would net all the rifles in a district at one blow.

But, as has been pointed out, individual shoulder weapons don't make infantry nearly as effective as in days of yore.

So a question: Where does the Swiss militia store its machine guns, mortars, anti-tank missiles, radios, land mines, grenades both hand and rifle, and anti-mortar radars?

thats a secret but here a YT video



but other than that in armories all over the country.

 

[sackett]

Can they do a proper manual of arms?

thats a secret but here a YT video



but other than that in armories all over the country.

I already knew about the secret Swiss airplane hangers, also the concealed pillboxes for the artillery that nobody knows where they are. But I was wondering about the stuff that modern infantry (modern as in post-WWI) carries around in order to survive more than 15 minutes after battle is joined.

Seems to me a tad antiquated to think of infantry as a gaggle of guys w/ assault rifles (a few will have sniper irons) tumbling out into the street. Yes, they'll hurry to the rally-points, armories I suppose, and gear up -- but at that rate they might as well draw rifles there.

Howsomever: I applaud Swiss attempts to maintain individual marksmanship, and if that requires keeping soldiers' guns at home, then do it to it.

 

[ComsatAngel2017]

thats a secret but here a YT video



but other than that in armories all over the country.

Wow! That was great! All you need is a Barry Gray theme tune and presto, you have Real Life Thunderbirds. Oh - except you'll have to use pine trees instead of palm trees.

 

[PogoPedant]

Wouldn't it be qicker for the depot to keep the whole weapon, then the militia deployment time would be shortened by however long it takes to re-fit a firing pin spring?

Dave

Refitting a firing pin in the AG3s (provided we still use those) takes twenty seconds for a recruit, and probably no more than ten-fifteen minutes for an old codger that hasn't bothered with the gun for a few years.

I suspect the tardiness will be getting the pins from the depot and to the soldier, rather than from the soldier and into the gun. The fitting can be done in parallel, while the handing-out is serialized.