| There's no substitute for accuracy. Case in point, the American revolution. The Patriots were outgunned and outnumbered, but they had something that the Brits did not, accurate rifles and skilled marksmen displaying amazing feets of riflemanship by dropping enemy officers from their horses out to 300 yards with their kentucky long rifles.
Another prime example is the fact that skilled snipers rank above machine guns and arillery barrages among things hated by soldiers.
However, the statistics of combat would support the opposite side of the spectrum.
That is that for every combat kill there are 10,000 rounds fired by either side of a battle. This study was done during the transition from the 7.62mm M-14 to the 5.56 mm M-16 in the Vietnam conflict.
Overall, accuracy rules, not just that of the weapons, but that of the marksmen. |