On the Reality of Combat

[zipplewrath]

286. I am an engineer

And I know a tremendous amount about how weapons are engineered. There are specific requirements based upon "one man lift" and "two man" lifts. There are also "two person lifts" which are lower. It is very common that weapons are limited by the man-machine interface. It defines what weapons can be made and what can't. An awful lot of weapons are designed specifically around men, not women. (so are fighter jets by the by. Women can typically handle higher g's, but we continue to design them around men).

Oh, and I was involved in an effort to design lower mass base plate. We were successful too, but it was really too physically large to be hauled around.

We design weapons around men. If we designed them around women, many men would have a hard time using them.