JHoagland opened this issue on Jul 05, 2007 · 92 posts
Morgano posted Sat, 07 July 2007 at 7:18 PM
*I suggest that any 3D modeler that works for or is contracted out by companies like Lockheed start charging hundreds of thousands of dollars for their work - trademark your individual modeling technique and request a license for the contractual use of it! ;P
*Nice idea, but it wouldn't work. The contract would stipulate that Lockheed (or whichever other company) owned the intellectual rights to everything that was associated with the contract.
H&K, I've always assumed, is based in Germany, but it was owned by BAE (formerly British Aerospace) and I am not sure if it is still. H&K's in-house superior submachine-gun is what you will see in numbers at British airports, or around the Houses of Parliament. When the British Army adopted the SA-80 automatic rifle and wished it hadn't, it was H&K which was invited to turn the rifle into a decent weapon. The second version is reputed to be a vastly superior firearm (better than the standard US Army rifle, actually), but the point here is that it really doesn't look that different from the hopeless first version. Knowing what the thing looks like gives you no indication of the changes that H&K made. I think that that pretty well summarises what I have been saying here.