It's like a BAR or StG44 in WWII, except you can stick it on all your rifles

So by that metric, you want something that can fire whatever grenade you have for as little cost, weight, and ergonomic disruption as possible

Standalone launchers are niche weapons with few applicable roles, so fucking up your UBGL to make it ammo compatible with a standalone is fucking dumb.

Just make your standalone GL fire purpose built ammo out of a purpose built launcher like the Mikor MGL.

@RoflTank what about a modern BAR? Mag capacity at 20 or 25 to make things a little more easy on the guy that has to carry it, long barrel for standoff engagements, but in a round like 338 lapua to make up for the smaller mag size? The barrel and reciever would be steel to make sure its durable but other parts of the firearm could be made out of high durability polymer to help cut down on weight more

As a force multiplier I think it could work well. I don't intend it to replace the SAW for whatever nation chooses to adopt it so the spergs that are gonna come around and reeeeee about it not being belt fed can fuck off

But... the magazine size and the weight of the gun are some of the main reasons why the gun is obsolescent

That would be heavy as fuck

Also smaller mags add up over time compaired to just throwing belts in a nutsack pouch

These are the same kinda guys who thought bringing back the M14 for use in Afghanistan was a good idea

We had the EBR because we didnt have enough m110s to give out

Suggesting an open bolt box fed machine gun in 338lap is utter silliness

@Innaswamp and the EBR was a failure

It was so fucking shit

Also increasing the magazine size would make it even less useful, since it will get in the way in prone positions

More rounds of a bigger cartridge

The EBR was neat but ineffective

*neat*

*I like the M14 ok*

I know it’s bad and I shouldn’t but I like it

Muh aesthetic

Muh battle rifle*

And Muh aesthetic

Don’t get me wrong almost anything since is better

I mean you can even argue the G43 (not the G41 the G41 is perfect the G43 was a late war rushed model) was better than the M14

The M14 is properly heat treated and won’t fuck it’s own gas system

The G43 also only holds ten rounds and has worse sights

It’s better than anything from the Second World War but not by much

>worse sights
that's a very opinionated statement

It’s harder to use tangent sights

I like them but for the average goon it’s easier to use an aperture

well yeah like I said it's very subjective and opinion based

Get your brain out of WW2 ya fuckin nerd

And the M14 is bad and you should feel bad

Yes and I do

@Reichtangle G43 sights are nice as fuck

Only a retard wouldnt be able to use them.

No they’re good

I like tangent sights, don’t get me wrong

But the aperture provides a generally better sight picture

This nigga can't use tangent sights lmao