Don't forget magazine inconsistency where you as a rule of thumb, you stuck to whatever reliable mag you had as your primary and preferred using the Mosin stripper clips to load the thing over having to actually swap mags. Still, it was the best semi-automatic rifle of the whole eastern front. It really only suffers from having to use a rimmed round and quality assurance for understandable reasons.
Oh for sure and it isn't a bad rifle considering its rushed development cycle, but just things to keep in mind with it as it's far from the super weapon I've seen some people portray it as.
You're saying Call of Duty lied to me?
One can make the argument for it being the best semi-automatic rifle of the war in terms of the overall feature set. No silly gas trap systems, no en-bloc mechanisms that feature their own issues, no exposed connecting rod, has theoretically interchangeable magazines with a slot for stripper clip use. Even could be converted to a select-fire rifle by changing a single part and scope mount conversion is as simple as cutting a notch in the receiver.
Hence my comment. M14 is a lot like what you'd get if the SVT-40 was made in pretty much any other nation besides the USSR.
I'd disagree given the simple fact that the Garand was the more mature and reliable design, .30-06 is an all around superior cartridge to 54r, and if we're looking at modification the Garand can easily be made magazine fed and converted to 7.62 NATO with fairly minor modification and scope mounting also requires minimal modification. The Italian BM59 is basically the M14 but sooner and represents (imo) what the M14 should have been, minus the rifle grenade feature. I think the BM59 is superior to a theoretical modernized SVT-40 or the SKS.
Even if you wanna just put intermediate rifle development to the side, any of the true Cold War battle rifles beat any of the reworked WWII designs. The USSR basically invented the DMR as a purpose-built rifle and a lot of the best DMRs now are just fancy Armalites.
Pretty much yeah.
I'd make the argument that by just looking at the sights, you can tell it was either an American design or a British one. The rest of the world wasn't that interested on having fully adjustable aperture sights on their military rifles.
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The whole complaint really can be summed up as them bitching that the next rifle procurement is not an open bidding process due to reasons like having to actually manufacture said rifles domestically and having a direct FDF-Sako collaboration to direct the development process to fit Finnish needs. Of course, the next plan for HK is to take it to the EU's high courts where they hope that by being a large German company, they can get a favorable decision.
So in other words HK continues to engage in peak jew behavior.
The only piece of media that I've seen perfectly capture that neo-liberal eurocrat mindset is Disco Elysium with it's Sunday Friend. Everything really does revolve around Price Stabilité with them.
The .30 Carbine is more or less ballistically identical to a .357 Magnum, so don't poo-poo it too much. She can bite.