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Edited on Tue Sep-25-07 10:04 PM by Pavulon
All are designed to function in absurdly bad conditions. Cold, hot, mud, sand, wherever the soldier may be. Oddly the round used in most hunting rifles carries much more energy. A shotgun is more deadly in the hands of an individual untrained person.
Very specialized, but do their job very well.
In comparison, an infantryman in the civil war could fire 4 or 5 aimed shots a minute. Now an infantryman can fire 30 or so aimed shots (unchanged since the 50's.
In sheer volume they can lay down 30 round bursts in a few seconds, from the same rifle.
When added up cover fire, the vast majority of what is used (hence small fast round), and aimed fire allow for infantry to maneuver in different terrain.
It is a very well thought out system.
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