[QUOTE="bogaty"][QUOTE="grape_of_wrath"]
Why the hell is that machine gun scoped? And where the hell did you use all that variety of assault rifles machine guns etc. Rocket launcher and grenade launcher!? Really? I'd bet military service if it weren't so damn much of them.
grape_of_wrath
It's a C79 3.4x sight. It's main use is for judging distance with the stad bar markings. It also lets you quickly accquire or re-accquire targets thanks to a good sight picture, aiming dot, and magnification.
I was in the Canadian forces and that's where I fired all the above mentioned weapons except the RPD machine-gun which I fired in Cambodia.
I just haven't seen something like a scoped light machine gun before.Now that you said it functions as a distance measurement gear,it makes more sense. Still seems odd,though. It's a waste of a good amplifying sight on something slightly redundant. Anyway.I was in the IDF and I don't come close to your variety. How does one person gets to have an experience with both a C9 and a sniper rifle? The only possible explanation would be that the c9 was your specialty weapon before you went to sniper school.But then the rocket launcher doesn't make sense -since it's a specialty weapon as well....I would appreciate if you could explain.Certainly. I joined the militia (basically our reservist force in Canada) when I was still in high school. At the time, the Canadian forces were reorganizing and switching over from the 7.62mm based weapons such as the C1A1 (very similar to your old Galil rifles) to the 5.56mm based C7. When we changed weapon systems, we also changed our organizational structure and tactical doctrine. We used to use the British system which was based on a company. 3 platoons would be equipped with rifles and SMGs while the 4th would be the heavy stuff like machineguns and mortars. When we switched to the C7(M16A2 variant), we adopted the US system based on the fireteam model with each section in a platoon having their own light machinegun and anti-tank capabilities rather than having to rely on a seperate sub unit to provide that support.
Anyway, the militia lagged behind the regular forces in making the switch, so I started out using the C1A1, C2A1, and C1 9mm SMG. When I finished high school, I enlisted in the regular forces. I waited about 6 months to be called up and spent that time serving with the militia, drilling with the previously mentioned weapons.
Once I was in reg forces (combat engineers), I made the switch to the C7. As I was one of the larger, stronger guys in our section, they got me to switch to machineguns. I drilled with both the C6 and the C9. (We generally carried the C9 on foot patrol and had C6s mounted on pintles on vehicles, but would sometimes also carry them on foot.) We also trained with the Carl Gustav recoilless rifle system. (standard issue for combat engineers at the time).
During my specialist training after I'd finished basic, there was an accident with some old explosives at the engineering school and training was shut down while an investigation took place. They didn't really know what do to with us, so they just sent us on whatever courses were available at the time. That's how I ended up attached to a recce company of light infantry attending a scouting and sniping course. That's where I used the C3A1.
I got to fire the SA80 while on a joint training exercise with the Brits and the the Mk19 grenade launcher while training with the Yanks. I fired the Warsaw Pact stuff while I was over in Croatia during the civil war.
There you have it.
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