| You're comparing apples with oranges. The BAR was a bipod mounted light machinegun that could be used as a very heavy rifle, a squad automatic weapon, or a sniper rifle. It used a full powered 30.06 round, which is no longer used by any military force because it is just too powerful. The one weakness of the BAR was the fact that it could only be fed using 20 round magazines, which severely limited it's flexibility.
On the other hand we have the MP 44. This was an assault rifle, in fact, the first assault rifle, and it fired the 7.92 kurtz (short) round that was developed for it to reduce recoil and increase accuracy. The result is that it is much less powerful than the 30.06. The MP 44 could not be used as either a SAW nor a sniper rifle, as it had neither a bipod nor could it be belt fed, but the 30 round mag made it an infantry weapon to be reckoned with.
Basically, you are asking something similar to: Which is better, the M-16 or the FN-FAL HB? Or, which is better, the Enfield IW or the modernized Bren? The comparison does not really work.
Dean. |