Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4957813-20140510034158/@comment-4485275-20140613025528

The Casket Magazine, while carrying about twice the ammo, is not much larger length-wise, and can store this ammo due to having a wider design, I'm simply saying "Too much for a grunt" as in, you'd rarely need to empty a mag at all, so adding more to the mag seems rather pointless. Large-scale combat isn't done by infantry anymore, but rather armor, artillery, and air support, which all boast far more firepower than the common infantryman can carry. Not making it expendable and making it cheap aren't the same thing, if your making it cheap so you can throw it away, that's one thing, if your making it cheap to lower costs, that's another, hence cutting corners.

Assault Rifle, while it does mean a selective fire rifle, also requires more than that, ie, it must be accurate enough for most engagements, use detachable magazines (As opposed to inserting individual bullets) and use lighter rifle-caliber rounds. Battle Rifle is a derivative of the Assault Rifle term, to refer to higher-caliber and more accurate rifles, as opposed to the "Standard" Assault rifles. And yes, Caliber does affect Accuracy, for example, a 5.56x45mm round is an accurate one, while a 7.62x39mm tends towards lower accuracy. For longer-distance shooting however, a larger caliber is almost required for the accuracy at longer distances, although that mostly refers to effective range.

I'm not comparing it to iron sights, I'm comparing it to similar sights mounted on the AR-15, G36 or AK family rifles. And yes, a scope, while not affecting the gun as a method to sling metal slugs forwards, is a part of the gun as a weapon. And, if you mention iron sights, yes, a bullup will have worse Iron sights than a standard rifle sight radius and all that. The training is indeed relevant, as the time spent training a man to hold an awkward piece of gear could be better spent teaching him how to aim or maintain it, logistics comes into weapon design very heavily, it's also why the soviets and later Russians can have a conscripted army, the AK-74 is a very easy rifle to pick up, and more time can be spent teaching the new recruit on how to maintain it (Also easy) and aim it. The AUG solved the "Balance" issue by just adding more weight to the front, which I mentioned, and makes it heavier than the AR-15. And yes, I did use weasel words, and yes, they are too complicated, KISS Principle, the trigger mechanism has too many moving parts, all to make it smaller, which, while useful given that urban combat is more common these days, carbines do that just fine, are simpler to make, a man trained with an M-16 or C7 can use a M4 or C8 with very little difficulty. I guess I did mistype, I was referring to shorter overall length, not a shorter barrel.

And yet the world still has AR-15, G36 and AK family derivatives all over, because they work the Israeli special forces have out and out refused to use the Tavor over the AR-15. The standard rifle configuration is much like the standard plane, car, sword, bow, and countless other configurations, built to work with the human body and outside environment instead of working against them.