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The videos I've seen purporting to show this were in fact videos of varmint hunters shooting small animals, such as prairie dogs, with .22-250 and similar rifles.

The T-34. Only the T-34 and Sherman were mechanically reliable, and the Sherman was woefully under-gunned.

There's a lot of good information in Chinn's five volume set, "The Machine Gun", as well as Hogg's "The Complete Machinegun", which borrows heavily from Chinn. There's lots of good information in both about the Hotchkiss and Darne guns, with lots of good pictures.

If it's not sympathetic to Japanese aggression and genocide in China, critics will call it "one sided" as they did of "The Great Raid".

Isn't this referenced in "The Fall of Berlin"?

When did "SoF" get "defunct"? I'm pretty sure I saw a new issue a couple of weeks ago. It's ok, although I prefer "Smallarms Review", a truly professional journal of NFA and other firearms.

Typically Japanese pilots could fire cannons and rifle caliber machineguns separately. It was common for Zero pilots to get the range with their 7.7mm guns, then use their 20mm cannon.

BAR: Controllable in full-auto fire, especially from the bipod. Serviceable SAW. Relatively low rate of fire due to small magazines. Far too heavy to replace the rifle. No sustained fire capability in common US versions. "Machine rifle"/SAW. BREN: Controllable in full-auto fire...

Neither the M14 nor the BM59 are "assault rifles". Neither fires an intermediate cartridge.

The reasons why the Germans kept the Kar98k were 50% interminable bureaucratic noodling (incessant changes of requirements) and 50% meddling by Hitler, who was an "expert" on infantry weapons based on his time as a junior NCO in WWI. The book "Sturmgewehr!" goes into great detail concerning...

Not unlike what happened in the US Army and Marines with the M14, albeit the FG42 was somewhat easier to control in full-auto due to design. Both the FG42 and the full-auto capable Garand offshoots culminating in the M14 are far too light for truly effective full-auto fire. The average...

Actually, the MKb42(H and W). Some would argue the Federov before them, although calling the 6.5x50mm Japanese an "intermediate" round is stretching things. Another little known fact is that the early Mkb42H prototypes fired from an open bolt and were meant to be used exclusively in full-auto.

By definition, an "assault rifle" can't be "full power". An assault rifle fires an "intermediate" cartridge, between a pistol round and a rifle round. Examples are the 7.92x33mm, 7.62x39mm, and 5.56x45mm. One reason why the FG42 failed was the great difficulty with which all full power long...

Actually, ammunitionwise, the French were influenced by the 7.5mm Swiss and the 7.92x57mm Mauser. The original round for the FM 24/29 was basically a 7.5x58mm version of the 7.92 Mauser. A rash of serious explosions during service testing were tentatively attributed to users inadvertently...

It's a pretty well respected gun, better respected in some cases than it's successor the AA52. Isn't it a partial copy of the BAR? I know that the French tested the BAR extensively after WWI. A lot of this is in "Rock and a Hard Place", the Collector Grade book on the BAR.