Remind me again why the US switched to 5.56?
7.62x51 vs 5.56x45
Jason Brooks
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Dominic Roberts
Fire superiority.
Camden Jones
5.56 works for what it's meant to do.
More ammo > STOPPING POWAH
Jackson Lopez
Same reason the USSR/Russia switched from 7.62x93 to 5.45, better to use the smaller rounds in your assault rifle while battle rifles get the big boy rounds.
Easton Morgan
because they learned that you win more firefights the more ammo you shove downrange, it has little to do with how powerful the cartridge actually is
Justin Anderson
>7.62x93
I know it was typo but I wonder what it would actually look like and how it would work.
Ethan Johnson
Because 5.56 has enough stopping power, it's lighter, less bulky so you can carry more, less recoil.
Brayden Taylor
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Or a necked down 50BMG. They aren't exact but close. I think necked 50 case would be pretty bad ass.
Jackson Taylor
5.56 is the result of studying what actually won battles in WW2 and Korea.
You would get more serious replies if you were not openly dishonest with your image.
Henry Powell
easier to train with
good wounding
good travel too
Anthony Butler
because arty kills more PPL than infantry, ifantry is just a place holder on the BF
Caleb Wilson
Because saturation is the name of the game and small arms account for like 2% of all KIA anyway.
Hudson Hall
Here's a 7.62x99
Gavin Nelson
Does faggot OP know he posted an image of 5.7?
Jonathan Brooks
Rifle stopping power doesn't really matter when you spray in the air until an airstrike arrives.
Gavin Wright
>Remind me again why the US switched to 5.56?
Because intermediates are a lot more beneficial for a common "fighting" round?
Hold more rounds per man, shoot more per man, a lot higher mag capacities, the guns are lighter, more controllable when firing, less likely to miss due to instinctive flinching
I'm sure he does. Probably just at the range and saw a fun opportunity to make people scratch heads for a second.
Blake Morgan
it's the only round that soiboys could handle.
Colton Ward
total war considerations
>you can make more 5.56
>you can shoot more 5.56
>you can carry more 5.56
Alexander Gomez
OP here, I'm really glad someone finally seems to have gotten the joke.
Daniel Hernandez
I wasn't sure what it was, but I knew it wasn't 556.
Benjamin Sanders
>Remind me again why the US switched to 5.56?
little Asian men in the arvn
Ryder Watson
Because Americans after 1960 couldn't shoot worth a damn.
Ryan Jenkins
because of poor wound models about fragmentation that were lost when the twist rate was changed and barrels were shortened.
6-6.5mm calibers are undeniably more accurate than either, but "shot placement is king" doesn't matter to 5.56 fanatics.
John Scott
when men became girls.
Josiah Williams
1. volume of fire
2. rounds that can be carried in (volume of fire)
3. cost per round (volume of fire)
Adrian Lee
Tbh it’s really this fact
>when the US govt did a study on troops when given automatic weapons instead of semi automatic or bolt action, they found that soldiers tend to shoot in the general area of a combatant rather than directly at them for a suppressing fire effect.
So basically they so they can carry and shoot more ammo