[Still Thinking]

MG’s with more range than a combat sniper rifle?? What are they using, slingshots?

[jz638]

MG’s with more range than a combat sniper rifle?? What are they using, slingshots?

Range is perhaps misleading here, thereare point ranges, area ranges, and max ranges for firearms. Machine guns are area weapons, you point at an area and paint that area. they can be considered effective even if not accurate so long as the bullets have enough kinetic energy to inflict damage (max range). sniper rifles are point weapons, every shot is an aimed shot at a particular point. Once the distance is too great to hit the point you aim at reliably, it is out of range.

[cbvanb]

Yah, that doesn’t ring true to me either.

[TXnMA]

"MG’s with more range than a combat sniper rifle?? "

The problem is one of aimed, precision slow fire with a rifle -- vs max elevation, full auto, "dump rounds on 'em" with a MG.

A rifleman with a .50 BMG Barrett or McMillan is at a "risk disadvantage" when up against a (also ,50 BMG) Ma Deuce which can back off behind cover and hose you and your environs with, essentially, "Area Saturation".

That's called a "firepower deficit"...

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Maybe someone can come up with a sniper weapon that fires rounds designed for the A-10's 30mm GAU-8... '-}

But, until then, I understand that the .416 is one sweet-shooting sniper round...