| I think that the way warfare has evolved into having highly mobile vehicles, air and land, capable of heavy fire support combining with most ground troops, the need for large rounds fired at great distances are not as important as in the past. Except for special teams such as snipers, battle planning seems to be closing as near as possible with light and heavy armored followed up by rifle teams. That makes the teams able to carry more ammo and do more damage at close range more effective at running gun battles. IMO.
__________________  “War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.” —John Stuart Mill |