SciFi90 wrote:Of greater use would be a machine gun, either water-cooled (like a .30 caliber) or air-cooled (like a .50 Caliber). Ammunition and linkage problems would have to be solved.
Better would be an assault rifle with select fire -- an AK or BAR derivative in a battle rifle chambering (the same ammo as the bolt-action rifles being issued now.)
Heavy machine guns like you propose are defensive, crew-served artillery. What the ICN needs is a light, offensive, weapon in wide circulation, that doesn't tie up an entire squad for each weapon.