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Oh, OK - I really should not have commented due to my ignorance of the subject. :) BTW - there was no Polish "cavalry model" - the licensed clone (rkm wz. 28) came in a single flavour. I don't think any effort had been made to lighten it.

Wouldn't heavier mean more controllable? The BAR can be significantly lightened - to c.6kg? (still hefty, I know) - by getting rid of the wannabe LMG accessories such as bipod etc. I still think that having rifles etc. suspended on a strand of jungle creeper rope - which would land a second or...

The problem here is the harness. Have the FJ's jump with a rifle on 3 metre rope and problem solved. Also no need to invent the FG42 - give BAR clones - of which Germany captured tens of thousands and could produce more - to the paras. I do not think that there would had been more airborne...