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Accurate gunners NEVER fire on fully auto. When I was the commander's gunner behind a .50 cal cruising in a humvee around Baghdad and (more often) Mosul, Iraq... You fire controlled 8-10 round bursts or 3-5 round bursts if you aren't trying to go nuts.

Perfect aim and fully auto are mutually exclusive. That is why the M16A1, which was used in Vietnam as the standard issue rifle, was replaced with the no longer fully auto M16A2. The A2 has safe, fire, and 3 round burst. The fully auto selector was removed as soldiers just wasted a lot of ammo and burned up barrels.



I believe that is the point. A human doesn't have the timing/strength to accurately shoot in full auto, a robot possibly can.


The robot still wouldn't want to shoot on auto. It might shoot as fast as auto, but it would want to decide & control when each round goes off, rather than rely on the fixed timing of the auto mechanism


I believe that is my point. The timing and strength has nothing to do with it. I was the commander's gunner on a .50 caliber machine gun because I was a good shot. The barrel "travels" upwards. It isn't really about holding it down, it is just the physics.

Have you ever fired a fully automatic weapon?




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