| EuroSpike, if you have to march cross country with that thing, I think you'd rather have the 5.56mm. Not to mention, you can't make your army out of 2m tall Viking Warriors who are 200kg of solid muscle.
You can carry much more ammo with the 5.56mm and once the fighting hits the streets, believe me, you'd want a weapon that can go automatic.
In Korea the more rapid firing PPSh overwhelmed the more reliable and far mroe accurate M-1 Garand because at close ranges, the raw firepower of an automatically firing weapon from groups of troops made a difference.
The same was felt in the Eastern Front of World War II. The PPSh allowed the Soviets to have far more automatic weapons than the Germans had and believe me, that did make a difference in the cities.
Ironically, it was from the Winter War against the Finns that the Russians first learned the effectiveness of the Submachine gun at close ranges. The Finns used the submachinegun with deadly effect in the close quarters of the forests.
Automatic fire has always been and is still very useful today. Not every situation is a nice situation where you can sit down, aim and take a single shot at the enemy who is moving in a predictable manner.
Are aimed, single shots preferred? Absolutely. Is it ALWAYS the best option? No. And because of that , the whole class of the assault rifle, the compromise between the battle rifle and the submachine gun, was born.
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