The break down of the refs. seems to be in order. But for the first date a caveat will be brought up to "muddy the waters" because of the use of the terms like "it has been in the inventory since 1989" or 1990 pick one, what you expected this to be easy? Hardly is around here at times.
1. USA Rangers JAN. 1991 soonest however; Para 10 of the again posted ref. below indicated the USA found flaws with the fatigue data from the manufacturer and ordered further tests in the States and Sweden, if this is taken into account, would the units on hand be kept in storage or remain in the field?
If pulled from the field then JAN. 1994 makes more sense. Only 50-75 or so tubes were availble for use and apparently only used by the Rangers for SpecOps.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...nd/m3-maws.htm
2. USN SEALS JAN. 1997.
SOLID. The rest of SOCOM units there is no date except for #3 below.
3. USA Regular and rest of SOCOM units JAN. 2012.
SOLID.
Current rounds used are the HEDP and HE (50M-75M blast radius.) ones only at this time.
http://www.saabgroup.com/en/About-Sa...s-Carl-Gustaf/
And this started as just a general purpose article!
with a hardy
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Regards,
Pat