Not sure about all the writer's facts, but he admitted possible inaccuracy himself at the very beginning of the article. Otherwise this seems quite informative...and very amusing. Educational indeed. Healthy amount of snark. The points about weight and recoil make a lot of sense to me, as does the guy's points about how a lot of these weapons are prone to jamming. That's very true.
One thing I'm surprised he didn't mention about the man-portable minigun. That being...how the HECK are you supposed to AIM the thing? The only possible firing position is to hold the thing around waist level. You're not gonna hit much that way. I'm convinced that the standing hip firing position was invented by sadistic instructors to break the spirits of trainees for all eternity. Or, well, as an object lesson in 'you are not Rambo'...
EDIT: Ha, he has an ENTIRE entry on 'hip-shooting' later in the thread. Excellent. Yes.
EDIT 2: it also occurs to me that my company armskote had a gigantic poster of the XM-29 OICW on the walls. Oi. >_< I guess someone fell for that too...
-- Acyl
One thing I'm surprised he didn't mention about the man-portable minigun. That being...how the HECK are you supposed to AIM the thing? The only possible firing position is to hold the thing around waist level. You're not gonna hit much that way. I'm convinced that the standing hip firing position was invented by sadistic instructors to break the spirits of trainees for all eternity. Or, well, as an object lesson in 'you are not Rambo'...
EDIT: Ha, he has an ENTIRE entry on 'hip-shooting' later in the thread. Excellent. Yes.
EDIT 2: it also occurs to me that my company armskote had a gigantic poster of the XM-29 OICW on the walls. Oi. >_< I guess someone fell for that too...
-- Acyl