Sam1911
Moderator Emeritus
How can that possibly be? A battle rifle (whether you choose to consider bolt-actions as well, or just semis) is, by definition, larger and fires a cartridge MORE powerful that what an assault rifle can fire. How can a battle rifle then be a sub-set of assalut rifles, if it doesn't meet the two most important criteria for being one at all?But the battle rifle is nothing but a subset of the assualt rifle
Please provide some statistcs showing what the other (major?) countries of the world are issuing. I don't think a very large number of foreign armies still field FALs or G3s.while NATO uses the 5.56 round and the US sticks to the M16 family of rifles, no other country does. The rest of the world uses AK's, FN Fal's, or G3's.
I can get you started:
China uses the interesting Type 95 in 5.8x42mm.
Several countries are going to variations of the HK36 (still in 5.56mm)
Japan uses their own Type 89, which is close to the old AR-18
And so on.
Here: http://world.guns.ru/assault/as72-e.htm
There's a lot of stuff out there...
-Sam