[Rq-rules] [RQIII] Unpradictability vs SR

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> A little besides the point of this discussionboard, but...
>
>> H&K G3 eh. My Top Secret SI character had one of them, 7.62, prob
>> better> on paper than the other 7.62 equivalents of the day (AK, M16, R4
>> etc).> Cheers> TonyWell, the 7.62 is heavy, but packs more punch than
>> the AK-(47)round. The exit muzzle velocity is 780m/sek, and the same
>> round is used in the brilliant MG3 (basically the german 1942
>> machingewehr from ww2, only with NATO-7.62-calibre) and is then
>> 820m/sek.
>
> You shoot through brick-walls and trees with it, so allthough you're
> hampered with a lot of ammo-weight-pr. round, compared to the 5.56, the
> enemy have problems finding cover for you. I once did the "Predator"-ting
> with the MG3; stuffed a backpack with 800 rounds of ammo, and had the belt
> fed directly into the machingun. That was fun (could only shoot standing
> or sitting, though, it was hard getting up with all that weight on the
> back, and with the 11 kg MG to drag along!

I left the whole trail here as I missed/deleted the origilan reply. 
Anyway, impressive gun, pity I as a civilian cannot have one, yet car
hijackers here seem to have access to AK's? funny that,terrorists are
freedom fighters when the government changes, but criminals seem to have
the weapons when swords are converted to ploughshears?  Me I have but
fired similar, but my older brother served in 64 mechanised infantry in
Angola in 1984/5, (the works, infantry, rear gunner, driver) so all I have
to speak of is his heresay and he doesn't like to talk of it.
Anyway, prob the ultimate extrapolation of the old M40(?) first assault
rifle caoming out of germany circe 1945.