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Message: <blockquote data-quote="haakon1" data-source="post: 4979406" data-attributes="member: 25619">AK-47's in WWII is no stretch at all -- the "47" means 1947, and the Germans had an assault rifle in 1943.  Plus, items like the RPG are not really game-changingly different from bazookas and the panzerfausts invented during WWII.  Artillery and heavy weapons are often either the same weapons as then (.50 cal), or slightly modernized versions (105 mm howitzer, 81 mm mortar, etc.).Harry Turtledove, "In Guns of the South", had the South winning the Civil War because of AK-47's brought by time travellers.  However, IIRC, they were importing them from the future, and the Southerners found it very expensive to reverse engineer -- but they were working on it.If the time travelers had gone to the North, I suspect the Springfield Armory or Samuel Colt's firearms factory in Connecticut could have cracked the code and reproduced it.  In the 1980s, I remember hearing there were metal shops in Afghanistan and Pakistan making ersatz AK's . . . If you're thinking aircraft, OK, that is a different story . . . As for analogy back to the original question of 4e in 1970, folks were not Neanderthals back then.  They could have adopted it, reprinted it, and used it, if they wanted it.</blockquote>