[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

The FN was a dream of a rifle in a lot of ways for military use, though at the time it didn't have auto or burst. But those would be fairly useless with that kind of rifle.


While it was heavy to carry, and it did feel a bit unwieldy because of its length. The benefit was the larger high velocity round. Basically good luck hiding from it, because chances are that round was going to go through a car to get you.


People that use it are really split into really distinct classes. Those that were really accurate with it, and those who could never get the handle of the idiosyncrasies of how to fire it.


It certainly wasn't a luxury weapon. It used an old school iron site. It punished you if you didn't put it properly into your shoulder, you sucked if you didn't control your breathing when you fired it.


Also it wasn't a good weapon for short people. Or people with short arms. It really was a weapon designed to fire from a prone or kneeling position as well.


The C2 was issued in my time of one per squad, came with a bipod and you could if I remember fire it in single, burst or auto mode. But it was magazine fed and was generally used as a suppression weapon. That thing was not a fun weapon to fire, and usually after you unleashed the first round you peppered the sky and would probably shoot down a low flying plane by mistake.

The modern battlefield also passed the C1 by, you just didn't need a weapon that could reach out and kill you from 1000M any more.

Also, you missed the biggest problem with the C2:

Spoiler!

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