storm rifle 3

STORM RIFLE 3

The Germans have always been very good about realizing their twin weaknesses of exposed flanks and a deficit of resources.  They think smarter militarily ( if you are in the American military, I hope you realize that we have NEVER stopped using the human wave assault as our primary tactic, from Washington’s disapproval of Indian fighting and favoring the marching line facing off and firing close, to the meat grinder of the Civil War to the gruesome death toll in such a short time in WWI and even to Vietnam where casualties were the location finder for heavy weaponry ).  They were the ones that came up with the assault rifle, which over came the limitations of the submachinegun and mobilized the machinegun by changing its ammunition ( there was still the squad automatic weapon, but that required a crew.  The assault rifle had the advantage of being An Army Of One, so to speak ).  The Kalashnikov was a rip off of the German gun ( the chief designer was a prisoner of war ) in concept, but the Russians took it from an over-engineered overly expensive weapon and made it so crude it was much more effective and so cheap the entire world came close to being armed with them.  Now, remember that an assault rifle is a compromise.  It can’t compete directly with a machinegun, but it had enough of its characteristics that it prevailed over riflemen. 

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Right there is the key.  It was enough of an evolutionary advance that it changed tactics ( logistics had long ago changed with the need to provide all other weapons systems, so the ammunition usage was no longer an issue ).  But the American military was for some bizarre reason still insisting that riflemen ruled the roost, rather than machine gunners.  At the individual level, soldiers were already using massed fire rather than aimed shots, but the military, the same one that used the myth of the heroic skilled frontiersman marksman to mask their idiocy of pushing flesh into flying lead, still issued marksmen’s rifles.  The M16 was partially designed and sold as a 500 yard rifle, not a shorter range machinegun substitute.  Of course the M16 always performed terribly as an assault rifle, as it was really always just a light weight repeating rifle ( the early problems were the Army‘s bad choice in ammunition, but mostly the criminally poor quality in Colt‘s manufacture [ next time you think about buying Colt, ask yourself if they killed one of your relatives in the Vietnam War ].  The problems after that and currently are the poor design which fouls the action.  If you use the thing as a rifle, this is usually not a problem.  If you try to use it as an assault weapon, it most emphatically is ).  A rifle is for aimed shots, an assault rifle which is actually more like an assault carbine is for massed fire.

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