Немного о том, что есть в мире "Оружейника" :)

"Machinegunnery is a lost art, I fear. Too much neglect, too little emphasis, and too many other weapons to train on, these days. During WWII, the GPMG and a mortar or two was basically it for the German infantry. They raised it to a high art, and we still don’t understand what the hell they were doing, in a lot of our armed forces to this day. Every time I hear that canard about “…the rate of fire is too high…”, I want to reach out and slap someone. Those people never stop to think, and ask themselves “Why? Why did the Germans do that, given their situation? If a lower rate of fire would have made sense, why did they specify the high one, and why didn’t they correct the “error”, if that was what it was…?”. The Germans were neither stupid nor oblivious, so the question has to be asked and answered: “Why the MG42?”. Nobody in our defense establishment ever does, so we still don’t grasp the essentials of it all, nor has our MG doctrine ever come close to matching that of the Germans."(с)одно ихнее обсуждение.
И еще оттуда же
"As the German’s enemies, we’ve done a damn poor job of understanding what the hell they were doing with their MG systems, and that’s something I really find fundamentally disturbing, because I believe that when we find ourselves in similar situations to theirs, outnumbered and outmatched (Almost certainty, in the Cold War…) you need to study how they almost made it work, and how they managed to make us pay the price we did defeating them. There’s nothing honorable or dishonorable in studying the enemy, or learning from him. Indeed, I would say that it’s more dishonorable not to study or learn, because that means that every life you expended taking him down was wasted. You want to show respect for the Allied dead? Learn from what killed them, and apply it the next time round, so our casualties are lower.

We’ve done a really lousy job on the learning thing, I’m afraid."