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The saga of the American automatic rifleman continues...it took all of WW1 for us to realize the French Chauchat half-moon shaped, box magazine LMG @ 20 pounds was unreliable http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chauchat and to field John Browning's superb BAR in 1918 in 7.62mm x 82mm or "30.06" but the BAR was VERY heavy @16-19 pounds, lacked a pistol grip, sometimes lacked a fold-up bipod, and had no quick-change barrel if it got hot to keep firing even its small capacity 20-round magazines. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browning_Automatic_Rifle If you think about it, the British Army's Bren gun in .303 with pistol grip, 30-round box magazine, bipod and quick-change barrel @ 23 pounds had us beat back in WW2! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bren Along comes the German Stg44/MP44 assault rifle with box magazine and selective-fire for ALL Soldiers; the "Assault Rifle" post-WW2 race was on with the Russian "AK-47" in 7.62mm x 39mm and our stodgy M14 in a scaled down WW2 7.62mm x 51mm NATO cartridge. The M14 on full auto even with bipod was uncontrollable shooting a very powerful cartridge still. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4weIh3Mc6kU The long-barrel AKM called the RPK--controllable and still in service today enabling enemy forces to have automatic riflemen to provide a base of suppressive fire to pin down the enemy for the other Soldiers in the squad to maneuver on them to get LOS kill shots or capture them. Along comes the M16 in 5.56mm x 45mm in 1965--but no automatic rifle version with bipod or open-bolt firing for cooling and certainly no quick-barrel change. Stoner proposed 5.56mm LMGs to incompetent U.S. Army and USMC to no avail. This brings us to the late 1970s where the "AR" man was a M16A1 firing from the closed bolt with selector switch on "AUTO" with a clamp-on Colt bipod. Even this bipod was FUBAR because it didn't lock itself in the closed position and it had to be forced into and out of its carry pouch! Here's a low-tech solution that one wonders why it wasn't fielded back then to help a dismal post-Vietnam-war malaise situation. Sew together two T.A.B.S. boot blousers http://www.wargear.info/products/tabs-elastic-blousing-securing-elastic-bands-kit.html you don't need (just tuck bottom of ACU trousers into your boot tops) and create a closure device at the bottom of your Colt clamp-on bipod. After the M16A1 AR-era passed, the current FN Mini-Mi 5.56mm belt-fed M249 LMG @ 15 pounds began--but unlike the Bren gun it cannot reliably load/fire M16/M4 magazines even though a port for this exists. One IAR school of thought just wants an open-bolt M16 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8XzCTm4fCY M4 carbine with short barrel to be the LMG replacement complete with dirty direct gas system and no barrel change; essentially a 1970s USMC M16A1 with selector lever on AUTO in smaller size and 7 pound weight for portability at expense of range. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVHLvtArC_g Others want us to buy Jim Sullivan's Singapore Army issue Ultimax 5.56mm box 30/40 round magazine and 100-round drum-fed LMG with long barrel, direct gas system, and detachable barrel for long range shooting capabilities @ 10 pounds total weight. http://www.defensereview.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=853 http://www.ultimaxsaw.com/Ultimax%20vs.%20M-249.html Essentially a Bren gun. Which do you think we will chose?
The saga of the American automatic rifleman continues...it took all of WW1 for us to realize the French Chauchat half-moon shaped, box magazine LMG @ 20 pounds was unreliable http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chauchat and to field John Browning's superb BAR in 1918 in 7.62mm x 82mm or "30.06" but the BAR was VERY heavy @16-19 pounds, lacked a pistol grip, sometimes lacked a fold-up bipod, and had no quick-change barrel if it got hot to keep firing even its small capacity 20-round magazines. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browning_Automatic_Rifle If you think about it, the British Army's Bren gun in .303 with pistol grip, 30-round box magazine, bipod and quick-change barrel @ 23 pounds had us beat back in WW2! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bren Along comes the German Stg44/MP44 assault rifle with box magazine and selective-fire for ALL Soldiers; the "Assault Rifle" post-WW2 race was on with the Russian "AK-47" in 7.62mm x 39mm and our stodgy M14 in a scaled down WW2 7.62mm x 51mm NATO cartridge. The M14 on full auto even with bipod was uncontrollable shooting a very powerful cartridge still. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4weIh3Mc6kU The long-barrel AKM called the RPK--controllable and still in service today enabling enemy forces to have automatic riflemen to provide a base of suppressive fire to pin down the enemy for the other Soldiers in the squad to maneuver on them to get LOS kill shots or capture them. Along comes the M16 in 5.56mm x 45mm in 1965--but no automatic rifle version with bipod or open-bolt firing for cooling and certainly no quick-barrel change. Stoner proposed 5.56mm LMGs to incompetent U.S. Army and USMC to no avail. This brings us to the late 1970s where the "AR" man was a M16A1 firing from the closed bolt with selector switch on "AUTO" with a clamp-on Colt bipod. Even this bipod was FUBAR because it didn't lock itself in the closed position and it had to be forced into and out of its carry pouch! Here's a low-tech solution that one wonders why it wasn't fielded back then to help a dismal post-Vietnam-war malaise situation. Sew together two T.A.B.S. boot blousers http://www.wargear.info/products/tabs-elastic-blousing-securing-elastic-bands-kit.html you don't need (just tuck bottom of ACU trousers into your boot tops) and create a closure device at the bottom of your Colt clamp-on bipod. After the M16A1 AR-era passed, the current FN Mini-Mi 5.56mm belt-fed M249 LMG @ 15 pounds began--but unlike the Bren gun it cannot reliably load/fire M16/M4 magazines even though a port for this exists. One IAR school of thought just wants an open-bolt M16 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8XzCTm4fCY M4 carbine with short barrel to be the LMG replacement complete with dirty direct gas system and no barrel change; essentially a 1970s USMC M16A1 with selector lever on AUTO in smaller size and 7 pound weight for portability at expense of range. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVHLvtArC_g Others want us to buy Jim Sullivan's Singapore Army issue Ultimax 5.56mm box 30/40 round magazine and 100-round drum-fed LMG with long barrel, direct gas system, and detachable barrel for long range shooting capabilities @ 10 pounds total weight. http://www.defensereview.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=853 http://www.ultimaxsaw.com/Ultimax%20vs.%20M-249.html Essentially a Bren gun. Which do you think we will chose?
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