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Re: Weapons tangent thread

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Mr Bojangles wrote:...
And, with the increase in urban combat, you really don't want full auto. Too great a chance of stray shots hitting noncombatants.
Or simply waste ammunition, wich causes supply/logistic problems. Same with the Wehrmacht 70 years ago: The troops loved their MG 42s, the planners hated it.
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Mr Bojangles wrote:And, with the increase in urban combat, you really don't want full auto. Too great a chance of stray shots hitting noncombatants
Depends, in modern British military theory at least. When I was a cadet in the Royal Engineers we only had the SA80 in bolt action and semi automatic versions (L98 A1 & A2). However we were taught that if we were regular Sappers then when we assaulted positions (at a range of about 20 metres), houses or rooms that we would go fully automatic. British soldiers (and by extension cadets) are effectively taught to saw people in half. You should aim your L85 A2 rifle towards the bottom of the hostiles torso, and then ride the recoil of the weapon up their chest on full auto. Fully automatic weapons also have their uses in the critical first minute of a fire fight. It's imperative to get out a wall of lead and win a firefight quickly as to suppress your enemy, if you lose a firefight, ie suppressed, your trained to effectively evacuate the combat area by deploying smoke, mainly because once you have your oppo pinned, you can move to assault their position, or call in all manner of nastiness to rain on them from 81mm mortar shells to 500 pound bombs. Getting as much lead in your enemies direction is a very good way of winning firefights quickly and as such keeping you alive. Once you win a firefight, firing discipline returns to an aimed rate of fire of about one round every 5 seconds, with rapid at 1 round every 2 to 3, the fire team's light machine-gun (FN Minimi/L110A1) is the most important aspect of keep your enemy hot under the collar as it has a large "beating zone" and fires in bursts of about 5 rounds every 5 seconds or so, it also sounds terrifying.

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Not sure why you don't just follow suit and use what's found in a lot of handbags. Mace sprays.

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junk wrote:Not sure why you don't just follow suit and use what's found in a lot of handbags. Mace sprays.
Against headwind and protection masks?
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