The only real change they made to the rifle was attaching a bipod to it. The M16A1 offered a full-auto setting and was actually quite controllable. With its closed bolt design, it had some of the better traits of a rifle in the automatic rifleman position. The poor Marine issued an infantry automatic rifle carried upwards of twenty magazines though. Well, admittedly, an automatic rifle cannot provide the same level of firepower as a belt-fed machine gun.
However, a lighter, more maneuverable weapon fits a rapidly moving force like the USMC a good deal better. Most Marine Corps platoons receive support from a machine gun team with medium machine guns. Also, when you outfit everyone with an M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle, then everyone has suppression capabilities, and the gap between an IAR and a real machine gun lessens considerably. Also, each infantry company will keep six SAWs in the armory, just in case a platoon needs a little more firepower.
The adoption of an infantry automatic rifle can be done correctly, and it seems like the USMC just might be doing so. Plus, they Trojan horsed a new service rifle into the Corps without a big expensive trial and upheld the greatest tradition of being the step-child fighting force.
What say you folks? Can an IAR work in the infantry? He serves as an NRA certified pistol instructor and teaches concealed carry classes. Pike, I like your article, especially for its context, concise explanations, and discussions of tradeoffs. Magazine fed rifles cannot keep an adequate rate of fire, except possibly with drums which are unreliable in austere conditions , but then the drum is slow to reload so unacceptable as well. What is needed is a better M or possibly a better maintained M, or better yet a better designed light machine gun, perhaps a Knight or Negev.
These SAWs are lighter and in at least the case of the Negev, lower recoiling as well. Um, for me, a shotgun and granade launcher works. Is it spray and pray or suppression fire? Is it jungle or sandbox? It is always the hand, not the glove. As a contractor we bad access to match grade ammo and DMR upgrades and aiming devices. We also had access. I liked the. Carried a saw for 5 years terminal lance back in the 90s we trained using 2 saws per fire time, I think they called them assault teams.
Imo I cant see a mag fed rifle ever replacing a belt fed weapon unless the corps ditched its fire and maneuver tactics. Occassionally I still wake up reaching for my saw, I think the marine corps will be doing the same. The Taliban is giving everyone a run for their money using a rifle designed in and still in use today. The big difference seems to be 7. They seem to get the job done.
And in battle ammo is plentiful. The AK 47 has been kicking our asses for years. A lot of people died because of terrible designed rifles. The AK is a kick ass, easy to maintain rifle. Drop in the mud, pick it up and start firing. Drop a AR in the mud, good luck. AK Stop spewing nonsense you know nothing about. You have been proven wrong and there are multiple test videos online on this very subject and the results are unambiguous, the AR rifle and all of its derivatives are overwhelmingly superior to the Kalashnikov in mud.
Especially if the weapon is fully immersed. You said a couple of things that are true though, AK platform is reliable and easy to maintain. Dispelling other myths about it, it is also fairly accurate platform. Now your comments on the AR platform are unfounded and factually incorrect. The M4 is a direct impingement gas-operated, air-cooled, magazine-fed weapon that shoots a 5. Many M4s are retrofitted with a. This medium-sized machine gun is a belt-fed and gas-operated weapon that fires a 7.
The weapon can disperse between to rounds per minute while on a cyclic rate of fire. The M Bravo enables its operator to put down a wall of lead when ground forces need to win the war of fire superiority.
The Marines fired the weapon to become more proficient with different weapon systems. This belt-fed, air-cooled 40mm automatic grenade launcher has a cyclic rate of fire of to rpm. The weapon system operates on a blow-back system, which uses chamber pressure to load the next grenade, launching each round a maximum distance of 2, meters. A sniper attached to Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment takes aim at insurgents from behind cover, during a firefight in Helmand province.
Patrols have been increased in an effort to push the Taliban back and create a buffer for villages friendly towards coalition forces in the region. This highly accurate sniper rifle is a favorite on the battlefields of Afghanistan as it weighs just A Marine racks a round into his. And since the Corps continually upgrades and adds new weapons to its arsenal, we reached out to the Marines Corps Systems Command, which is in charge of all acquisitions for the Corps, to find out which standard issue weapons it currently gives to Marines.
The Beretta M9 is a 9mm semi-automatic pistol. The Colt M45A1 is. The Corps began fielding shotguns during World War I to breach and clear trenches, and began fielding the Benelli M4 in The Mossberg A2 is a Gauge shotgun that usually comes with a five-round capacity tube.
The M16A4 shoots 5. The M4 shoots 5. The M4A1 is an upgraded M4 with " full auto capability, a consistent trigger pull, and a slightly heavier barrel," according to Military. The SAW shoots a 5. The M27 shoots 5. The M fires 7. There are multiple variants of the M The MB also shoots 7. Read more about the difference in the variant specs here. The M shoots a 7. The M40A6 shoots a 7. In , a marine actually had his M break down during a firefight , and he called customer support to fix it.
The M2 is a. The M2A1 is a. The M shoots 40mm grenades and can be fitted under the M4 and M16, but the US military is currently phasing it out for the M
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