B.A.R. - Browning Automatic Rifle History

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[thehumangunstore]

Mobile firepower that the Germans and Japanese couldn't match? I beg to differ

[MrHongKongBuffet]

Nobody likes to remember it, but very early BARs had some teething troubles, delaying their deployment in WWI. Obviously, these are long gone and the BAR's operating system survives in the FN MAG and its licensed US clone, the M240 series.

And who in their right mind would compare a BAR to an MG42? About the only thing these two guns have in common is that they're automatics firing rifle cartridges. Totally different tactical employment, totally different concepts.

[jubeikiba6]

@thehumangunstore mobile firepower may be the factor in that comment. sure the germans had the FG42, but as far as I know those were not widely distributed. one of the issues with the german arsenal was that they already had so many different designs on the battlefield. I am no expert but if I had to argue for this statement this is how I would do it.

[dave1986R]

Kelly sure used his gangster mentality to good use against the Germans

[ccmm53095]

Therein lies one of my points from my post, you've just complimented it. However, I was comparing the BAR to JAPANESE weaponry.

[ccmm53095]

@thehumangunstore: The StG44 is an fires an intermediate caliber round, while the FG42 is a "battle rifle" firing full-size 8mm. The most appropriate comparison would be the BAR and the FG42. The FG42 was superior to the BAR. Its drawbacks on the battle field were really no worse than the one's suffered by post-war battle rifles (the FAL or the M-14). Difficult to control in full auto because of the light weight and full powered cartridge, but devastating. The FG was also better ergonomically.

[thehumangunstore]

@ccmm53095 i would compair it to the Sturmgewher 44 or fg 42 automatic rifles.

[ccmm53095]

@thehumangunstore: While the BAR couldn't compare German GPMGs in terms of effectiveness and versatility, it was superior to what the Japanese were equipped with. Kijiro Nambu (Japan's chief designer) designed weapons that were accurate but incorporated lots of superfluous features and were overly complex and therefore unreliable. The Japanese machine guns failed to stand up against the BAR. Furthermore, none of the weapons discussed had a place within the context of Japanese military doctrine.

[ccmm53095]

@MrHongKongBuffet: The FN MAG-58 incorporates features of both the BAR and the MG42. It uses the gas mechanism of the BAR and the feed mechanism of an MG42.

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@joelSanFrancisco

Troll Successful.

[smokndarasta]

Sometimes I wish we would have just left Europe to rot to Soviet communism. They all hate us Americans now.