Thread: Went shooting yesterday....

Originally Posted by Syme

The real question is whether the M16A1's full-auto setting, in and of itself, provided enough fire superiority to save "thousands of lives" despite the fact that troops using it tended to rip through their entire magazine in a second and a half without hitting anything. If you have facts proving that the M16A1's full auto setting saved all these lives, then please, show them to me.

Suppression fire saves lives. The point of fire superiority and suppression fire is not necessarily to hit the enemy, but to deter them from aggression all together. A great deal of military doctrine is based upon this principal.

Originally Posted by Syme

EDIT: Just out of curiosity, do you have any objections to the AR platform other than it's gas system?

The feeding sucks and it jams all the time. I have frequently been failed during peak moments and firefights in training missions no matter how well my M16 was maintained. The worst part about is that there are much better weapons on the market using the same round and that would require little retraining for our military.


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For further reading: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/1...sttest_071217/