Dear FORBIN, I like your posts very much and I respect you as a long-time member of the SDF and a PLA expert.
I readily admit that I don't know weapons. I am interested in weapons but don't know a lot about them. My main purpose here is to learn from experts like you, Deino, AF Brat, Jeff, PLA Wolf, Engineer, among others. I believe most majority of visitors to our forum is here to learn. Let's face it, experts are not easy to come by. Then it is up to you guys, the experts and teachers, to explain things in a clear and understandable fashion so that we can learn.
These weapon systems are complicated stuff to begin with. As I have mentioned before, much of what you guys talk about are way over my head. I have a hard time understanding much of what the experts discuss even when the discussion is in perfect English. It becomes extra hard with your posts because of your English.
I enjoy posts by Jeff, PLA Wolf, Deino, and AF Brat the most because they explain things in a way that a lay person like me can understand. I can tell that most of your posts pack a lot of good information that I would like to learn and understand. However, I can't since it is so difficult to make sense of your posts.
I know that the hardest part of any conversation is between an expert and a lay person. It requires a lot of extra effort on the part of the expert to convey their ideas clear enough for the lay person to understand. I know that from first hand experience. When I write NIH grant applications, the most difficult part is the Lay Statement. Although it is only one paragraph, I spend more time on it because I need to think harder to come up with ways to explain things to a lay person.
I do believe it is the responsibility of the experts to explain things clearly to the lay people. When people have wrong ideas about certain medical myth, I blame myself and my fellow colleagues because we should do a better job explaining things to the general public. Why? Because we are the experts. We are the ones who actually know stuff. Similar with you. I believe that you, as an expert, bare the responsibility to convey your knowledge clearly to the lay people.
Just my 2-cent...