Episode 105: Gun Nerds 7: Squad Support Weapons

This episode is posted at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi-8kmZFhgM. Special thanks to James Kachman for indexing it.

Episode bookmarks

• Intros and Announcements (They’ll be starting 2 hours earlier.)

• Overview of current Weapons, M240 mods, Future Developments like .338 and LSAT, Weight Issues

• In depth on .338, Replacing the M2, Ammo Costs vs Capability, Brass vs Polymer, Acquisition

• Infantry Organization, Cost and Application of .338

• M27 and the Heavier-Rifle Concept, Triangular Squads, Sustained Fire and Maneuver, M249 and Accuracy

• Automatic Rifle vs Machine Gun, Reloading and Practicality, Training and Doctrine

• Javelin vs Machine Gun in Weapons Squad, Fire and Maneuver vs Movement, Sustained Fire and Suppression

• Barrel changes, Rate of Fire, Burning Guns, Optics and Future Things, Passive Ranging

• M27 as IAR/DMR, Training, Barrel Life of M27, Who Does What, Javelins (Chuck’s kids are Javelin Qual’d)

• AFV Identification

• MAAWS/Carl Gustav, Sights Thereof, Subject Matter Experts, Art of Machine Gunnery

• Leadership’s Role wrt MGs, Training Things, Specialization in the Weapons Squad

• Historical Effects of MGs, Mike gets pissed about Grenadiers, Grenadier Discussions

• Training and Leadership, Lifelong Learning, Infantry Warrants and Master Gunner, Gaps in Knowledge

• Landwarrior, Explaining Infantry to Tankers, Officers and Kool-Aid, Politics

• Machine Gun Theory, Size of a Burst, Fire Commands and Squad Responsibilities

• Leaders owning their Fire, BIG VEINY DICKS, Responsibility, “I am the last 500 meters of foreign policy”

• Chuck AWOL’s Oxygen Thieves, Motivation and Methods in Training, Insurgency to Improve

• Petraeus Story, Institutional Inertia, Sneakers on Recce

• M249 Optics, Fuckery with Optics, M145 Optic

• More Optics, Spotter-Gunner Dialogue, Self-Spotting (BAD!), ACOGs (GOOD!)

• Problems with Self-Spotting, MGs in the Assault, RoF

• More RoF Considerations, M249 Stock Stuff

• M249s in MOUT, Reloading and Ammo, Keeping Drums on the Guns

• Ash’s Announcement

• .308 Gas Guns for Next Week, pitches, and goodnights.