Looks like the US has adopted a new rifle

Looks like the US has adopted a new rifle.

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Is that a bullpup?

Good joke, mate
>whatarejointexercises.acr

Why exercise with a rifle you'll never use?

So you can use it if things go bad and you're stuck away from supplies with a bunch of people who have those rifles for an extended period of time.

Oh yeah because that happens so often

Ask the Brits, maybe they figured it out. Legend has it that decades ago the same question was asked by Heckler&Koch after their engineers spent 13 seconds looking at the SA80 lineup.

Chemical weapon attacks are something that happen "so often", but literally everyone still trains for that. If you're closely interacting with another western army as was super common in Iraq and Afghanistan, it makes sense to have a familiarity with their equipment just in case, especially when their equipment has a wildly different manual of arms.

Wouldn't you be better knowing the enemy's equipment?

You learn that in pre-deployment familiarization anyway.

>Why bother training for things

There is no brainlet wokja large enough for this post.

Yeah let's train for stuff that never happens instead of training more on things that will. Great idea.

>you will never be at a poorly stocked fob or camp
>you will never be there with allies who are operating in the same theater
>you will never have a couple broken guns among a group of soldiers, and your allies will never have a small surplus due to casualties
>none of these things will never, ever happen

>why exercise with a rifle that never works
FTFY

it works now

The A3 is a great rifle.

Experience. Learning how Allied equipment operates can help to offer a new perspective, and if it's a seasoned unit where they have already gotten plenty of practice with their M4s, it can offer an expanded mindset and in some ways make them better.

Also it's pretty neat. I got to use AKs during an exercise once where we were training our National Guard.

"When the one with the rifle is killed, the one behind him picks up the rifle and shoots."

Ah the Americans and there jamomatic sa 80 rifles. They should be like the Brits and use a m4 and m16

when did they stop issuing nut guards?

maybe they are looking into adopting some kind of bullpup and they want opinions on it

Haha, what a warlet.

I’ve fired a Vz 58 on full auto to get the Czech experience.

Why? It doesn’t matter how an RPK works on their end, it’s all bullets coming at you all the same.

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What a shit thread... Every NATO country has weapon familiarisation and combat training with other NATO members.

Here's a RAFag with an M16A2

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You saw literally one picture on the internet of a US soldier holding a rifle and you're convinced that their whole training program is shit?

How fucking retarded are you? Be honest.