It's 1986 summertime in Finland, you are fighting the dirty commies pouring across the border. The two rifles you are presented with before you leave your base toward the front line (mixed urban and forest) are a G3A4 outfitted with a ZF1 4x optic or a Galil SAR outfitted with an Elbit Falcon RDS. (You are equally familiar with both and you won't be confused with the enemy with either.)
Galil but only if I can LARP with a SA accent.
This Galil’s are so damn sexy I built a 5.56 AK but honestly just wish I bought a galil
Now I want to hear a Finn trying to put on a Sith Ifricin iccint
G3 obviously, it's better for range
>range
You are lucky to see past 100 meters in a tundra forest. Also our terrain is very uneven and laden with cover in the form of large rocks besides the trees, so we advance very aggressively during assaults. Everyone opens fire in the general direction of the enemy if they open first, then we immediately hit the ground and continue firing. After this the fireteam leader sprints to the first piece of cover and once he is in position the rest move and the cycle repeats (3 seconds to get up and move to cover, if it's too far away you crawl the rest of the way). In live fire exercises we would cover over 300 meters like this in about 3 minutes with pop-up targets. You can't accomplish this effectively if your rifle is bulky and high recoil.
t. currently serving finnish conscript
>it's better for range
>summertime
>Finland
Can't fricking see 70 yards in 95% of the country.
I feel better with bigger rounds, gimme the g3
G3A4, I like big guns.
My muscles are quite sizable and 7.62 NATO drops ziggers like sacks of shit, apparently, so you know who I'm pulling for...
G3 because it looks cooler.
Lmao are these all the same dude?
I’m taking the Galil, especially if I’m gonna be carrying an RPG or AT mines.
I'd also take the galil if I was sent to war as a foot soldier, but G3 for everything civilian and as military DMR.
Depends on if its 'modernized' ie has picaninny rails for optics and shit
If its just irons than I guess the galil but if I can slap a scope on gimme the G3
I see you've changed your wording after getting thrashed in the last thread
Yep
Finns wouldn't use either of these rifles, either today or in 1986. RK62 is the only real option, maybe still a KP44 or KP31 if you were reserve or rear echelon.
Did I say you were part of the Finnish army, homosexual?
KP's are the shit still in the front lines. Stens for the REMF's.
I pick the G3 because I can loot more ammo from hunters if need be, while practically nobody had .223 rifles here before the '90s. The .308 situation isn't going to be very good in 1986 either
If the Galil SAR barrel is well under 16 inches then I am taking the G3A4 because one of the big selling points of 5.56 is that its a small light bullet going so moronicly fast it devastates on impact with soft stuff.
If the Commies are pouring across the border that means some longer range shooting is going to take place and 5.56 out of a short barrel will be found lacking.
Also it being the 80's means that the 5.56 round used will probably be M855 which combined with a short barrel and range..... yeah
In 86 it was still mostly half and half between M855 and M193.
hard choice.
if i have to take a heavy gun i might as well get the extra fire power of the 7.62 so gibmedat g3.
I'll pick Suomi M/31.
Based
Do Finns still carrying puukkos in the military today?
Yeah. Mora's, puukko's and Glocks. Everyone brings their own and NCO school and reserve officer school students buy memorial puukko's with their class number on it.
what are those red tabs on their armor for?
On the back of the PC? It has rescue strap inside to pull a casuality into cover.
Yes.
In fact, a personal puukko/knife is the only part of the unifrom that can be customized to your own liking without breaking the dress code. The tradition being, "Every single finn will be carrying a puukko. But as some puukkos vary in size, style and design based on their point of origin, we can't have any standardization. So whatever you are rocking, it's all good". This is because different provinces have their own traditional puukko styles, and puukkos from one part of the country may be quite different from others.
1986 Finland
I would immediately go to the white house and show them and tell them that Russia will invade Ukraine in 2023. They will believe me because I will bring my phone back from the future. Because I have my iPhone I will be assigned to a crack team of Ukrainian spec ops and CIA mercs and infiltrate the Soviet Union and shut off their dead man switch and cut the wires on all their mobile launchers.
Then the United States will have the opportunity to nuke Russia once and for all. This will be the greatest thing to ever happen to democracy, and the most American thing ever.
>2023
NGMI, anon
Optic is a must for a rifle, so the choice is obvious
>laughs with snow in mouth
Listen, buddy, you can kill people with a literal stick, but why make your odds worse if you can dunk on Black folk just by identifying your target first? Especially considering it's 1986 and the only optics on that side will be rare SVD guys
Rare? And this isn't mid/easters European plains
What's the sauce for the pic?
/k/ in summer of 2016. I'm guessing it's from some US manual.
Wdym they both have optics?
>It's 1986 summertime in Finland
>Galil SAR
What a fundamentally moronic thread.
I'd take that G3. I feel like it would have a slightly better time punching through the underbrush. Pic only related in that we'll be reclaiming Karelia
Galil. I am familiar with AKM derivatives. I know frick all about g3. Also .308 is waisted on me. I have never even shot past a 100 yards.
Galil obviously. Easier to shoot, more maneuverable, better optic, lighter, more ammo, easier to move cross country with.
Only legitimate morons who've never had to carry a gun around or use one would pick the g3.
I see we're going full alternative history with this one
Galil for familiarity
t. Finnish reservist
>1986
Did the commies get pissed off by that one c64 game
I wish the G3A4 had a shorter barrel, like a 16 instead of an 18
The G3, obviously. I don't want a 556 gun that weights almost as much as a battle rifle and whose cartridge's bullets get fricking deflected on mere leaves.
Depends on what you want your combat load to be.
RK62