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Bdcamel commented at 2011-02-25 22:52:21 » #633856
Girl in front is Cold War era Air Cavalry, not 1st Inf.
She appears to be using a Colt Commando, which makes sense.
Otherwise, yes, girl in the back-right shouldn't be using an AUG. No self-respecting American soldier would be caught dead with that Austrian garbage.
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Girl in front is Cold War era Air Cavalry, not 1st Inf.
She appears to be using a Colt Commando, which makes sense.
Otherwise, yes, girl in the back-right shouldn't be using an AUG. No self-respecting American soldier would be caught dead with that Austrian garbage.
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Anonymous commented at 2011-05-01 03:39:16 » #715728
@Bdcamel
Maybe. But then again, I've heard anecdotal reports of at least a couple American troops in Iraq that had managed to obtain FAMAS rifles and PPSh-41 submachine guns and used them for room-clearing, so apparently they're willing to use French or Soviet garbage if it does what they need it to do.
See, that's what our troops need. Something light, compact, accurate, high-capacity and capable of high cyclic rates of fire. Short assault carbines like the M4 and its derivatives are inadequate because the 5.56mm round does most of its damage by fragmenting in tissue after impacting at high velocities, and those velocities can only be attained with a full-length barrel.
A submachine gun like the Kriss with a drum mag or a gas piston AR-based 6.8mm SPC carbine with an eight-inch barrel and a dual-drum mag would be perfect. Or, even better yet, how about a select-fire version of the Kel-Tec RFB with a quick-change barrel system and an integral bipod? Instant lightweight bullpup LMG/Battle Rifle cross, with a sweet .30-cal punch!
Actually, if you look at how things are going in small-arms development, it looks like the major manufacturers are scrambling to make a gun that blends the roles of a rifleman and a support gunner together. Like the Marine IAR competition, for example.
If the technology gets to be good enough, we may not even have separate support gunner and rifleman roles anymore. We may just end up with a general-purpose infantryman who has a lightweight rifle that can do both magazine and belt-feeding depending on whether they need to provide accurate fire or suppressive fire. Still, even though I'm a civilian, I can still see the advantages of keeping those roles divided up. Not only does it keep them focused on their specific battlefield roles instead of getting them mixed up in the heat of battle, support gunners have to lug a lot of extra ammo around, and you don't want to slow down your riflemen like that.
That's one of the reasons why they were looking into caseless ammo; theoretically, you could have a rifleman putting out the same suppressive firepower while not increasing their load one bit.
Aww, heck. I'm rambling again.
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@Bdcamel
Maybe. But then again, I've heard anecdotal reports of at least a couple American troops in Iraq that had managed to obtain FAMAS rifles and PPSh-41 submachine guns and used them for room-clearing, so apparently they're willing to use French or Soviet garbage if it does what they need it to do.
See, that's what our troops need. Something light, compact, accurate, high-capacity and capable of high cyclic rates of fire. Short assault carbines like the M4 and its derivatives are inadequate because the 5.56mm round does most of its damage by fragmenting in tissue after impacting at high velocities, and those velocities can only be attained with a full-length barrel.
A submachine gun like the Kriss with a drum mag or a gas piston AR-based 6.8mm SPC carbine with an eight-inch barrel and a dual-drum mag would be perfect. Or, even better yet, how about a select-fire version of the Kel-Tec RFB with a quick-change barrel system and an integral bipod? Instant lightweight bullpup LMG/Battle Rifle cross, with a sweet .30-cal punch!
Actually, if you look at how things are going in small-arms development, it looks like the major manufacturers are scrambling to make a gun that blends the roles of a rifleman and a support gunner together. Like the Marine IAR competition, for example.
If the technology gets to be good enough, we may not even have separate support gunner and rifleman roles anymore. We may just end up with a general-purpose infantryman who has a lightweight rifle that can do both magazine and belt-feeding depending on whether they need to provide accurate fire or suppressive fire. Still, even though I'm a civilian, I can still see the advantages of keeping those roles divided up. Not only does it keep them focused on their specific battlefield roles instead of getting them mixed up in the heat of battle, support gunners have to lug a lot of extra ammo around, and you don't want to slow down your riflemen like that.
That's one of the reasons why they were looking into caseless ammo; theoretically, you could have a rifleman putting out the same suppressive firepower while not increasing their load one bit.
Aww, heck. I'm rambling again.
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