10-13-2011, 04:54 AM
stanc Wrote:Check the Fallujah video above. In the sequence starting @ 1:00, the SAW gunner is right in there with the rest of the team assaulting into the building.
Yeah, I've done it. The SAW sucks in the house, but is a little more maneuverable with the commando barrels (which have become pretty standard in dismounted units in the Army) and the newer stocks, but you still have a weapon that weighs over 20 pounds without optics and an IR pointer, which were SOP to have mounted on our SAWs without the user being allowed to remove them for operations unless they were broken and sent up for repairs. Believe me, I've spent weeks on-end carrying the SAW in different stages of my 10 years in Infantry and Airborne units. It needs to be replaced. I don't know how they managed to take the MAG58, the AK operating system, and a great feed tray cover, and make it a jam-o-matic, but FN pulled it off big-time.
That video only illustrates what I've been telling people about real-world experience with the SAW. It is a piece of garbage. If it was a great weapon, I'd be singing its praises like I do the M4.