Assault Rifles and their Ammunition: History and Prospects

[Tony Williams]

Thanks. It's good to see someone as highly regarded as you making that point. Whenever I've said the same thing on Tony's MG&A forum, I receive objections from numerous individuals (including Tony) who insist that full-auto is vital.

What I've said is that armies clearly regard full-auto as vital, because AFAIK there isn't a single assault rifle in service anywhere which doesn't have it, therefore the performance of weapons in automatic fire needs to be considered. I am well aware that the number of occasions on which it will be tactically useful are few.