Re: Reverse engineering of MG42 and 88mm gun

Chris Morton wrote:


Taliban and Al Qaeda terrorists would consistently outrange anyone armed with
the G11... assuming that it could even survive the environment.  That's
questionable in Afghanistan.  It's highly unlikely in Iraq.

Why? The G11 is completely enclosed. It is less prone to environmental conditions such as dust than rifles firing a classic metal cartridge case. All problems with spent case ejection are not applicable to it.

I would also like to question how the Taliban or Al Qaida would "outrange" forces with the G11? Their standard personal weapons are 7.62x39mm AK derivatives, most if which have maximum effective range of about 300 meters. Of course they have machine guns and sniper rifles, but so would the German forces with the G11 have... In Iraq urban fighting is common and in that the supremely controllable three round burst mode and easily controllable full auto mode of the G11 would excel.

Back to WW2:

In WW2, if we forget the Fedorov automatic rifle and MP43, the ultimate personal weapon composition would have been a mix of semi-auto rifles and good 7.62x25 or 9mm Para SMGs at squad level. A roughly fifty-fifty mix of bolt-action rifles and good SMGs would probably have been about equal to all semi-automatic rifles. The latter would have been superior on open terrain, the former in forests, trenches and cities. As it was, the Americans still had the best individual soldier weapons, because the Germans and British did not have very good SMGs and the Soviets never standardized on the optimum mix, instead preferring to have troops with SMGs only.

The sub 5mm fad is still going on in the form of the FN P90. Not an assault rifle though.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the P90 in 5.7mm? 

Yes, my mistake. I was thinking about the Heckler & Koch MP7 (4.6x30mm).


Tero P. Mustalahti

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