We must make a new type of gun
i believe that modern day carbine, a rifle small enough to be reasonably easy to comfortably carry concelead everyday yet still keeping enough firepower to be a threat comparable to rifle at similiar range.
think semi-auto sbr but legal
get rid of the NFA, and the abbv. "SBR" will fall away.
Define the target and the goal. Because by effective up to 1km all I mean is that you can suppress small groups of people with short bursts, or maybe damage unarmoured vehicles. And a cartridge that has a point blank range of 250-300m should have enough energy to do that with a well-shaped bullet.
And a more cautious enemy has to be less aggressive, therefore you have a better chance at dictating the flow of battle. E.g. it does matter if they always have to set up GPMGs on tripods to cover their movement.
Define effective. 7.62x54mmR works reasonably well both in the PKM and the Dragunov.
If you only use your army as a glorified police force in third world shitholes, then sure, you can waste all the money you want and you can strain your logistics to your heart's content. But in an actual total war it makes a difference.
You have dedicated machinegunners for that. Why waste weight and resources equipping every infantryman to be a machinegunner when they aren't trained to act as such? Especially at these 1km ranges of which you speak, even if we assume that every infantryman has enough training to be a machinegunner, and even if his gun is mechanically equipped to engage at 1000 yards, most grunts won't be able to shoot accurately enough at that distance to matter. Remember, to get an "expert" rating on the shooting range in the Army you only have to pull off 4 MoA or so.
And both the PKM and the Dragunov are specialized weapons, given to troops that are trained to act as automatic riflemen and DMs. They aren't standard-issue service rifles for an infantry squad, nor should they be.
Having two rifle calibers isn't going to make your logistics chain spontaneously combust. And any logistics gain you net on the production side of things is negated by the fact that your "general purpose" ammo is going to be heavier than a SCHV cartridge, and the standard loadout will have a smaller number of rounds. Fewer shots means it takes less time for troops to run dry, so they have to be resupplied more often, which costs fuel and money.
…How does that gun work?
Chainsaw bayonet
Art major engineering.
Why didn't the Asgard develop kinetic based weaponry like the Chemrail Gun?
Because they weigh like 50lbs man, most of that is head. They're a dying race, they even mass suicided for no fucking reason at one point.
The Vanir are the OG Badass Asgard, and they had all kinds of neat toys. A breaching team of four Vanir beat the fuck out of Atlantis and all the SG teams there.
Vid related, they are retardedly amazing.