Re: [GZG] Small arms tech and troop quality

At 8:51 AM -0600 12/16/08, John Atkinson wrote:
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>I would buy that provided the poorer quality troops suffered
>relatively more severe effects for firing at long ranges--the
>effective range of the guys who have spent more time on the rifle
>range is greater.  If an untrained idiot starts blazing away with an
>AK-47 at 400m, while it is "fire" it is not effective fire, is
>unlikely to land close enough to do much good, and simply pinpoints
>his precise location.

Whereas a troop of soldiers who CAN hit a target 
at 600 yards are a hazard. Range isn't the 
question. Effective fire at WHAT range is. If 
you're a Boer shooting at British troops at 1000 
yards and the British troops can't put effective 
fire back on you at a given range because of 
limitations of weaponry you might have a problem. 
The same could go for troops with small caliber 
assault rifles being fired upon by soldiers with 
better longer ranged weapons.

It's the skill level that makes the troops a 
danger to their enemies rather than just their 
kit.

If the Indian police with their Enfields and FALs 
had received regular rifle training and were 
moderately skillful with their rifles they would 
have easily scotched the asshats in Mumbai by 
using longer ranged fire.
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