>>64154473
The AK with its 7.62x39mm was the best infantry rifle in the world until the western world stopped with the bullshit and began looking at SCHV assault rifles.
It's certainly not as good as the later 5.56x45mm and 5.45x39mm, but it still works well for what it is, is mostly better than battlerifles in most ways, and has proven that extensively, even when the M16A1 and AK74 was better, the AKM still remained pretty damn good.
You could also shit on 7.92x33mm, which looks particularly terrible from a modern perspective, but in its day that was a cutting edge concept, in an era where most infantry rifles were still 5 shot bolt-actions, the Sturmgewehr, for all its various deficiencies, was a pretty potent force multiplier. Smaller numbers of German Volksgrenadiers were able to hold their own to remarkable lengths against larger numbers of otherwise better supplied American troops in big part because of the Sturmgewehr.
When the other side doesn't even have assault rifles, it doesn't matter if your assault rifle isn't as good as it could be, because it's a fucking assault rifle and they don't have those. If both of you have assault rifles, and yours isn't maybe as good, that's not gonna be a deciding factor.
>>64154510
I always try, even when posting from a gas station bathroom.
