Muricans....we learn to shoot short bursts. In my company the gunners put 25% of bullets on target down range.
Also, with a bit of practise you still go through rounds frighteningly quick.
With LMG we learn to fire in bursts for more precision. The .50 cal we need to see the bullets drop and using the impacts as an aiming point so we need to fire full auto with it. The Dutch army uses ammo boxes with 200 rounds each and every 5 of them exist out of normal point, armor piercing, tracer, armor piercing and normal round. Just my experience.
If you ever need to know how long you gotta shoot...
You just use the phrase "One large beer"
or as we Swedes prefer "En stor stark" (Stark meaning a strong (beer), above 4.5%)
Remember guys, short controlled bursts! Short controlled bursts!
The is more to it than that. It is also ammunition saving measure.
Compare equivalent machine guns (I'm deliberately omitting 50 cal like in the clip) - MM1919 browning - 400-600 rounds a minute, Bren had around 500.
German MG-34 had basically double of that rate of fire - around 800 rounds a minute.
MG-42 - 1200.
That is a tremendous difference for machine guns with relatively similar cartridge. All of these weapons are suppression weapons, but difference is how you achieve it.
Lower rate of fire guarantees better control, unless gun has monster of a recoil.
Shorter bursts on high rate of fire weapon also guarantee better control... and slow down the heat buildup in a barrel.
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