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Wouldn’t that just let you know when the burst is at the end of the clip? If you only hear 2 rounds, you know the clip is empty, where if it was divisible by three, you wouldn’t know until you pulled the trigger and no rounds came out that the clip was empty.
It really is because straight magazines (as opposed to curved) are cheaper to produce and you can get about a maximum of 25 rounds of 5.56 in a straight magazine before your start having reliability issues.
If only there was a number divisable by three near 25.
You might have an extra one in the chamber as well so should we take that into account too or not? What if the rifle jams and you end up to another number not divisible by 3 again? What if the soldier fired a few rounds in semi auto before switching to burst?
Clearly the solution is that everyone should be given a few loose rounds so they can top their mags up to a number divisible by 3 whenever they get to an unacceptable situation where the number of rounds left in their mag is non-divisible by 3 during combat. This should remain their top priority. You can't acceptably allow the rifle to fire one or two rounds when you expect three. The enemy might file a complaint if that ever happened. Also pay no attention to the fact that the M16 already isn't guaranteed to fire three rounds on its first burst because the 3 round burst mechanism "counts" the shots in semi auto and it doesn't reset when you switch it to burst.
Clearly what we need to do is invent some sort of Quantum magazine that will always contain enough rounds to complete a burst no matter what happens until then. Burst mode is simply ahead of its time. The other technologies need to catch up.
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I think the solution is to design a magazine with nested minimags containing three rounds each. That way, if any of them have less than three rounds, you can replace that section of your magazine. Of course, these minimags cannot feed rounds unless they contain 3 rounds, so you will never gets "bursts" of 1 or 2, if you can even call them that.
Turns out that 25 is more than that number though...
You seen those warriors from Hammerfel? They got curved magazines. Curved. Magazines.
My first thought too. It's good UX design.
is that only gaming thing? i thought irl burst looks and sound indistinguishable from single shot
This is coming from someone who has never shot a gun before so...
But I imagine, if you're a soldier that fires this weapon regularly, then you can feel the difference between a three shot and at two shot burst.
I've fired a three round burst rifle. You can absolutely hear three distinct shots.
Though I haven't shot the FAMAS, 3-round burst fired from an M4 is clearly distinguishable from firing a single round (and alerts range safeties within a 300m radius)
Hon hon hon, our enemies have learned that oiu fire in three shot bursts. Now with zis five and twenty round magazine, zay will here a single shots, and keep their heads down till zay hear zee third shot, giving ample time to reloads! Hon hon hon, baguette!
Wouldn't this be easy to fix with a 3d printer and some springs?
It's a lot easier to fix by simply not bothering to use the 3-rnd burst function at all. It's an idea that has always worked better in theory than in practice.
That also makes sense! I'm not much of a gun user.
IIRC the reason is simply that 25 is about the maximum amount of 5.56x45mm ammo that you can have in straight mag because of physics or some shit.
Right, so...
So you use 25 bullets or a curved mag. Since the FAMAS was apparently designed with straight mags in mind (I assume they are cheaper to make and/or more durable). I guess soldiers with OCD can shoot the extra bullet semi auto after chambering it. Or maybe they load their mags with 1 less bullet and there's a guy running around with an extra mag filling it with these extra bullets /s.
In all seriousness though, I wonder if that has a part in the decision to move to the HK416. I would guess not, since I have never seen "real" criticism of the FAMAS on that basis (hell, I don't think I've ever seen someone have truly bad things to say about this rifle after using it, but I've never used one myself so what do I know). But I will try to investigate.
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