12-06-2011, 04:23 PM
Yes, the long projectiles aren't a big deal for a belt-fed LMG with a short case. The 120gr GMX ain't fitting in the Grendel/AR15 with much success, since it takes so much case capacity, but an LMG with a feed tray doesn't care what the AR15 can feed, and shouldn't. Even if we load them exactly the same, the linked ammo will come in cans linked, and ammo for carbines will come on stripper clips. It's been that way for a long, long time.
I certainly don't want Joes blasting away with bullets like the 120gr GMX in a CQB environment with multiple entry points and the fog of war. That would be insane to go into a house like that, but if the LMG gunners lit the place up before we went in, and supported us with shifting fire, that would be perfect. It would also let the SAW gunner duty position in the rifle squad reach out to where the M240 currently engages targets, in a blaster that is much less than half the weight of a 240, with a constant recoil system that even an X-Box junkie with wimpy muscle mass could track on target at 800m with suppressive and effective fire on his second burst, and keep it on-target. Stalky guys have a hard enough time doing that with a SAW at 200m now.
I certainly don't want Joes blasting away with bullets like the 120gr GMX in a CQB environment with multiple entry points and the fog of war. That would be insane to go into a house like that, but if the LMG gunners lit the place up before we went in, and supported us with shifting fire, that would be perfect. It would also let the SAW gunner duty position in the rifle squad reach out to where the M240 currently engages targets, in a blaster that is much less than half the weight of a 240, with a constant recoil system that even an X-Box junkie with wimpy muscle mass could track on target at 800m with suppressive and effective fire on his second burst, and keep it on-target. Stalky guys have a hard enough time doing that with a SAW at 200m now.