>>511329246
rifles are almost entirely useless in war, wars are won with artillery and your ability to mass produce more artillery shells than your enemy

>>64005749
assault rifles are largely irrelevant on the modern battlefield, small arms account for just 5% of combat deaths, with machine guns making up 70% of those, followed by sniper rifles in a far second. Infantry only exists to physically occupy territory and be bullet sponges for artillery, if they had bolt action rifles, it wouldnt change much