Small Arms and Weapons

[johny_baba]

Fair enough.

If the barrel was 20 inch in length and the Pakistanis used 40-75 round canvas bag magazines then this would be a really good SAW.

I personally feel that the RPD was not optimised for today's battlefields and thus lost out to the PKM as a GPMG but an AK style SAW is still in vogue in CQB.

The VSK 100-3 with a better muzzle device, bipods and 75 round box magazine would be decent at CQB room sweeping/door kicking.

Anything more than 200-300 m and this rifle won't hit anything, probably worse than a decent build Type 56-1 capable of 2-3 MOA.

Rpk replaced rpd because Soviet thought belts to be heavy and once you run out of belt then you have no ammo
With rpk you can take same magzine as comrade
Rather than using vsk 100 3 for cqb why not just use std AK with drum mag only down side is less rpm

You may be putting less rounds on target but the sustained rate of fire and subsequent suppression will be much higher. With a better muzzle device such as the one shown below, accuracy will also improve marginally.

• Thicker barrel
• 900 rpm
• Reinforced trunnion and handguard
• Angled buttstock
• Lighter weight than an RPK
• 16.3'' barrel vs 23.2'' on the RPK

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well with all advancements in engineering, metallurgy and manufacturing technologies, we have reached that 'sweet spot' like status, where both magazine fed SAW and belt fed LMG/SAW are coming closer in terms of size, weight, overall handling...FN M249, IWI Negev are examples

so modern day machine gunners are getting more chances to play more 'mobile' kind of roles in a combat zone with same weapon, be it belt fed LMG/SAW or an enlarged strengthened rifle that's a magazine fed LMG...it's becoming a question of 'what serves us well' than 'what should we be getting'

you look at USMC, they standardised their infantry rifles to LMG-ish heavy profile barreled rifle with M27 IAR, giving each marine ability to provide suppressive fire along with accurate semi-auto fire, you look at chinese PLA and they're inducting some new M249-ish SAW that's dual fed, feeds from belt as well as QBZ-191 magazines, you look at Russians who experimented with RPK-16 are also developing two-three distinct dual-fed SAWs there

 

[username unkown]

well with all advancements in engineering, metallurgy and manufacturing technologies, we have reached that 'sweet spot' like status, where both magazine fed SAW and belt fed LMG/SAW are coming closer in terms of size, weight, overall handling...FN M249, IWI Negev are examples

so modern day machine gunners are getting more chances to play more 'mobile' kind of roles in a combat zone with same weapon, be it belt fed LMG/SAW or an enlarged strengthened rifle that's a magazine fed LMG...it's becoming a question of 'what serves us well' than 'what should we be getting'

So now will 50. Cal or dshk machine guns successor will also be more mobile something like that was ohio ordinance reapr and sig xm338

 

[VictorDelta4]

New Panos from Thales

 

[spindrift]

New bottle, some aged wine!- DRDO MCIWS- 6.8..
Nice presentation by Sandeep Sir.
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Aged wine? Its more like aged vinegar.