What's the actual use/purpose of full auto fire? And how does it compare to burst?

What's the actual use/purpose of full auto fire? And how does it compare to burst?

  1. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    It's cruise control for cool. Memes aside, it's for suppressing fire with less guns.

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      can't it be done by just, I dunno, pulling the trigger fast? Full autos dump mags in seconds, no?

      The professional use is for hitting moving targets at short range with rifles or hitting moving targets at long range with tripod-mounted MGs.
      It's also a cheap way to boost conscript effectiveness in CQB.

      >The professional use is for hitting moving targets at short range with rifles
      how does full auto improve accuracy?
      >It's also a cheap way to boost conscript effectiveness in CQB.
      how does it boost their effectiveness? These are legitimate questions, I just don't see it/understand it.

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        >how does full auto improve accuracy?
        It doesn't. It improves hit probability by saturating the area with bullets. Spray and pray. Duh.

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        >boost conscript effectiveness in CQB.
        In a room clearing situation it would be pointing the barrel instinctively and either fanning the trigger in semi or holding for a short burst. More bullets mean you're more likely to quickly incapacitate the adjacent target. Urban combat sucks, do not recommend.

        I disagree that it makes conscripts more effective.

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        >how does it boost their effectiveness
        Spraying at point blank is more likely to get hits and more of them. It provides negligible benefit for professionals, but for retards it boosts their dangerousness towards the skill cap.

        >how does full auto improve accuracy
        In USMC tests short bursts raise the chance of hitting a running man 50m away from 40% to 60%.

        At long range (machine gun ranges of 600-900m) there's also physical lag involved which snipers can't fully compensate for because predicting the target's motion doesn't matter if they trip, freeze, or randomly dodge. A machinegun solves the problem of random motion by covering an entire 2-4mil wide area with too many rounds to accidentally or luckily evade this way.

  2. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    The professional use is for hitting moving targets at short range with rifles or hitting moving targets at long range with tripod-mounted MGs.
    It's also a cheap way to boost conscript effectiveness in CQB.

  3. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    It's for final defensive fire when your position is being assaulted. That's it.

  4. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    firepower multiplication

  5. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    If you're talking about handheld weapons, full auto is easier to implement mechanically than burst mode. So early weapons had an automatic mode, and if you wanted burst you would just tap the trigger. This created the expectation that a gun should have full auto, which is why it continued to this day.

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      >If you're talking about handheld weapons, full auto is easier to implement mechanically than burst mode. So early weapons had an automatic mode, and if you wanted burst you would just tap the trigger. This created the expectation that a gun should have full auto, which is why it continued to this day.
      I see, that would make sense. So the intention was still burst like shooting, yes?

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        I'm sure there are use cases for two seconds of sustained fire, but the expected use is to put three holes in a guy rather than one, yes.

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        Even heavy machine guns are expected to fire in bursts. There is usually a preferred burst length that armies teach for each weapon. These bursts are supposed to be aimed too and not just firehose.

  6. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    Okay for mounted or emplaced machine guns to use volume of fire to kill everything in a cone and give somebody a fright. Not very useful for anything else.

  7. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    Volume of fire compensates for inaccuracy. If you shoot a hundred bullets someone's way, chances are one of them is either going to hit close enough to either suppress or neutralize. Very useful in situations where you can't exactly see where the enemy is (most combat situations), or when he's only visible for a second.

    Full auto is also extremely useful for extremely close quarters combat, clearing enemy positions, trenches, fortifications. When you're close enough to see the whites of the enemy's eye balls, you NEED to introduce as many holes in him as possible, because he's doing the same to you.

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      you're correct, but this webm illustrates your point badly, like those faux-black-and-white TV infomercial dramatizations where everybody just turns braindead, guy stopped firing as he came around the corner and was certainly not clicking fast enough in the first place.

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        He got shot, anon.

    • 1 month ago
      mrcrummypaws

      >RT
      >posting Vatnik propaganda

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        Fuck off, tourist.

        • 1 month ago
          mrcrummypaws

          >orc shill gets called out
          >posts a zigger getting put down
          I bet you think this is an epic own lol

          • 1 month ago
            Anonymous

            have a nice day.

            • 1 month ago
              mrcrummypaws

              sorry buddy, i just donated more money so a Ukie squad can decimate an entire Vatnik battalion lol footage will be uploaded to r/ukrainewarcombatfootage & posted in Nafocord too cry about it
              >last reply from me 🙂

              • 1 month ago
                Anonymous

                ughh i agree with you on principle but why do you have to be so cringe. Just look at combat footage neutrally and don't get butthurt when you see ukies bite the bullet. War is hell.

          • 1 month ago
            Anonymous

            Jesus fucking Christ you people are insufferable

  8. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    It gets you the astonishment, ire, jealousy, or admiration of strangers at the range

  9. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    That game kicked ass on the psp

  10. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    >what's the purpose
    To increase the killing potential of non stop warfare.

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