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I remember reading an article here that mentioned how some of our troops in the ME felt out-gunned by the AK's, and were wishing for something better than our M's.

I got an idea: let's contract with Norinco to supply US forces, and use our buying power to shape their marketing policy.

Just kidding. Bring out the M14's.

Might the above-mentioned article be another example of the deficiency of spray-firing lots of lightweight 22cal stuff, as opposed to aiming a ponderous Nato round?

I remember this was debated heavily 20 or 30 years ago, with the fire-hosers winning the theoretical tactics battle. I'm inclined to think the ME bad guys are more like out military shooters of 60 years ago. I see them in the vidio clips standing fast in the face of sprayfire aiming their AK's carefully. Chesty (I think) was quoted as being at his ease in the face of enemy full-auto fire cuz he knew they wouldn't hit him.