Comments on: Outgunned

By: Isegoria

Isegoria — Sat, 20 Jun 2015 12:49:49 +0000

The Taliban have relied on machine-gun fire from a superior position to herd Marines into booby-trapped spaces.

By: Isegoria

Isegoria — Sat, 20 Jun 2015 12:44:21 +0000

I agree that the original article is oddly incoherent, given that the author is supposed to be a former infantry Marine. (With a hyphenated last name?)

The 7.62×51 NATO outranges the 7.62×39, the intermediate round used in AK-47s, but it’s ballistically more-or-less identical to the 7.62x54R, the full-power round used in Russian sniper rifles and general-purpose machine guns. Further, the same round can have a longer effective range when fired from a tripod-mounted, belt-fed. machine gun.

By: Guy

Guy — Fri, 19 Jun 2015 22:12:43 +0000

“It sounds like the Marines have met up with better infantry.”

Or one with looser rules of engagement.

By: Bob Sykes

Bob Sykes — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 23:51:28 +0000

The quotes are an incoherent mess. The author clearly knows nothing about sniper rifles.

The 7.62 NATO is good out to 1,000 m and outranges the Russian 7.62. Kills have been made out to 1,500 m. The .338 Lapua is good out to 1,500 m, and a Brit holds a record kill at something like 2,000 m. If Marines are being outgunned, the opposition is using something equivalent to a Ma Deuce, and no sniper rifle can outgun it.

It has been noted that our enemies are being trained by our best Socom and Marines and have gotten quite good. It sounds like the Marines have met up with better infantry.