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Originally posted by DelayedReaction
You're kidding, right? The advent of automatic weapons revolutionized warfare, and dramatically decreased the skill required to kill a man. The machine gun changed the face of battle in World War I; it brought about trench warfare.
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Actually, he's not.
The dunedan is right regarding marching lines into machine gun fire, which why there were horrible casualities during some of the WW1 trench battles, but Americans learned in Vietnam that full-auto was not the panacea people seem to think it is, which is why they invented the "burst" version of the M16 (the A4?).
This allowed multiple shots per trigger pull without wasting a lot of ammunition.
I have also shot full-auto and while it is fun, I found it useless for trying to hit a single target, as I couldn't sufficiently control the weapon.