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A Battle Rifle is heavier and has less capacity than an Assault Rifle.
A Battle Rifle is heavier and has less capacity than an Assault Rifle.
You have that backwards let me fix that for you.The British military are the most replicated around the world including ours.
There ya go.The American military are the most replicated around the world including the British.
Sure, and Delta Force sprang into being miraculously like Athena from the head of Zeus.The Real Mags said:You have that backwards let me fix that for you.
The American military are the most replicated around the world including the British.
The XM8 is a more advanced system and is waaaaaay more customizable than our current platform
Americans retain a permanently jaundiced view of our British Brothers, no doubt a result of that little bonfire made of Washington during the War of 1812.
Why would they all be blindly convinced they are in second place? I would have guessed they would be convinced they possessed the earth's ultimate fighting force. Perhaps they are modest? If they were more modest, perhaps they would consider themselves to be antepenultimate?In modern Western military circles, four countries are blindly convinced that they possess the earth's penultimate fighting force...the USA, the UK, Israel, and France.
Why would they all be blindly convinced they are in second place?
I've seen a lot more folks survive 7.62 x 39 hits than 5.56 x 45. Several friends of mine are still walking around my unit after having been drilled by AK fire.
"Ahh" 5.56 is many things to many people, however good "sub-machine" gun round is not among them, "sub-machine" guns fire low powered "handgun" cartridges exclusively...The 5.56 NATO round is a very effective sub-machine gun round...it just doesn't cut it as a battle rifle round.
Maybe something with .260Rem/.270Win ballistics would be a good compromise b/t the 5.56 NATO & 7.62 NATO....
ToucheThink a little more about it...defense appropriations hang in the balance.
And your point is?!? Most soldiers say that attackers take 3-4 shots of 5.56 in center-mass to stop them. That was rarely said while using the .308 or .30-06 in war.
Limey:When they switched from the Krag to the 1903, they did infact say the same thing about .30-06. Who would use such a little bullet, when you need a .40 calibre round to do any real damage. The same complaints were heard from .50+ rounds to .40 rounds and throughout history.
It usually led to stories about how "I know I shot the guy 5 times and he still didn't go down because I never miss!" Originally the British wanted a .280 British round back at the end of WW2, but the US would never allow it. Suffers from the not invented here syndrome.