>>63998820
Yes, that is one valid way of dealing with harasing fire from machinegunners.

In the context of afghanistan it was usually multiple PK gunners from long range in well prepared positions with dhsks usually even further back. The moment they start taking accurate counter fire they either relocate to a new position or just leave the battlefield since they have done their job which is to pin coalition troops down and grab their attention away from other taliban fighters that are trying to manouver.

Unless you score a one round kill on them they are gona keep doing it again and again.

But with laser guided explosive or time fuzed explosive
>mohammed is blazing away with his PK
>he is doing a really good job pinning down the infidels from the US
>No accurate counter fire yet so im good
>dont hear any jets or helis
>no warning on the radio about coaltion vehicles moving about
>have not heard any 155mm shells landing yet
>...... gets delted by a time fuzed HE round fired from US squad

Infact the XM25 kinda did this and it was really good at it when it worked. Before that the Javelin was used to pop machine gun positions and it also was really good but very expensive per round.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XM25_CDTE
>First contact was on 3 December 2010. As of February 2011, the weapon had been fired 55 times in nine engagements by two units in different locations. It had disrupted two insurgent attacks on observation posts, destroyed two PKM machine gun positions, and destroyed four ambush sites. In one engagement, an enemy machine gunner was wounded by, or so frightened of, the XM25 that he dropped his weapon and ran away. The units with the XM25s had no casualties during the nine engagement

But no lets replace the 556 and turn every rifleman into a super marksman with a fancy computer scope.