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Thanks for the help.

Originally Posted by StainlessSteelCynic

The patent for the C-Mag was filed in April 1987
Here's a link to the patent document
http://www.google.com/patents?id=A6s...page&q&f=false

According to this website, the US Army tested the C-Mag recently in Afghanistan and found it had problems. Typically these were jams and failures to accept the stated 100-rds into the mag.
http://www.defendamerica.mil/article.../a072803b.html

Thanks for the date.

From the research I've done I think that they are susceptible to breakage, particularly if dropped or bashed. They therefore sound like a good option but shouldn't be exclusively relied upon.

Originally Posted by raketenjagdpanzer

The soldier in the foreground on my 1.0 boxed set has an M16 sporting one.

I'd forgotten about that. Being picky though I don't think that that is a Beta C-Mag in the drawing as its got one drum not two. What other extended mags were available at the time? Does anyone know?