You're on the west side of the Chosin Reservoir..

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Posted: 8/16/2018 5:50:05 PM EDT

... at the height of the Korean War. Your unit has The High Ground and the Chinese are attacking in human waves. What modern rifle machine gun, or crew-served weapon would you want?

Posted: 8/16/2018 5:51:26 PM EDT

[#1]

All of them. They melt eventually.

Posted: 8/16/2018 5:52:04 PM EDT

[#2]

M240
Lots of them

Posted: 8/16/2018 5:54:26 PM EDT

[#3]

105mm howitzers and lots of ammo.

Posted: 8/16/2018 5:56:43 PM EDT

[#4]

A radio and stacks and stacks of B52s dropping CBUs...

Posted: 8/16/2018 6:06:07 PM EDT

[#5]

Feed them the US Army troops till they run outta bullets...then have a USN chaplain lie about them...

We had nukes we shoulda used 'em

Posted: 8/16/2018 6:06:20 PM EDT

[#6]

On the ground: MG3 with pallets of ammo and spare barrels.

In the air: All the fuckin' CAS available.

Posted: 8/16/2018 6:08:43 PM EDT

[#7]

You wouldn't need anything from today, enough truck mounted quad 50's would get the job done.

Posted: 8/16/2018 6:09:54 PM EDT

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Do they make a gatling-barrelled Mk19?

Posted: 8/16/2018 6:11:27 PM EDT

[#9]

BAR

While stationed at Camp Casey we had a Korean farmer come up to our gate with the remnants of a BAR that he had found.
While holding it I couldn't help but wonder what the circumstances were that led to it being lost.

Posted: 8/16/2018 6:12:00 PM EDT

[#10]

Dad got by with an M-1......

Posted: 8/16/2018 6:12:05 PM EDT

[#11]

Quad .50

Posted: 8/16/2018 6:12:33 PM EDT

[#12]

PKM is the correct answer, M240 is an acceptable alternative. Either way, I want A LOT of them.

Posted: 8/16/2018 6:12:37 PM EDT

[#13]

A wall of mini guns.

Posted: 8/16/2018 6:13:44 PM EDT

[#14]

MK19 for the win.

Posted: 8/16/2018 6:16:12 PM EDT

[#15]

I'm thinking mk19's.

Posted: 8/16/2018 6:21:17 PM EDT

[#16]

With as many ammo carriers as necessary.

Posted: 8/16/2018 6:22:58 PM EDT

[#17]

GAU-19B.

Posted: 8/16/2018 6:23:28 PM EDT

[#18]

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Do they make a gatling-barrelled Mk19?

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... at the height of the Korean War. Your unit has The High Ground and the Chinese are attacking in human waves. What modern rifle machine gun, or crew-served weapon would you want?

Do they make a gatling-barrelled Mk19?

I like your style!

Posted: 8/16/2018 6:37:40 PM EDT

[#19]

What is the danger-close limit on a Mark 4 fission bomb?

Kharn

Posted: 8/16/2018 7:36:01 PM EDT

[#20]

MG3 with tripods for at least 1/3 of them, 2 or 3 spare barrels per gun, PLENTY of ammo, RDS for all plus the Lafette tripod sights. A-gunners have Mk.18 for PDW, micro red-dot sights.

Riflemen have MARS-L with TA33.

Company-level, 60mm LWT Mortar x2 plus a couple more MG teams. Probably another MG plus a Carl Gustav team at Platoon level.

Lots of Claymore mines out front. Heavier mortars (81, 4.2, and 120) plus field artillery on call, and lots of it. All the air support available. Pity AC-47 won't exist for about another 12-13 years...

Lots of radios to talk with air, sister units, and higher. A whole Jeep full of spare batteries and a few spare radio sets. Signal panels, flares, and smoke grenades for marking.

Modern gear? Everyone has NVG or thermal.

Posted: 8/16/2018 7:43:17 PM EDT

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MG3 with tripods for at least 1/3 of them, 2 or 3 spare barrels per gun, PLENTY of ammo, RDS for all plus the Lafette tripod sights. A-gunners have Mk.18 for PDW, micro red-dot sights.

Riflemen have MARS-L with TA33.

Company-level, 60mm LWT Mortar x2 plus a couple more MG teams. Probably another MG plus a Carl Gustav team at Platoon level.

Lots of Claymore mines out front. Heavier mortars (81, 4.2, and 120) plus field artillery on call, and lots of it. All the air support available. Pity AC-47 won't exist for about another 12-13 years...

Lots of radios to talk with air, sister units, and higher. A whole Jeep full of spare batteries and a few spare radio sets. Signal panels, flares, and smoke grenades for marking.

Modern gear? Everyone has NVG or thermal.

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I would actually change the MG to something water cooled. It was cold, snowy, and icy

Posted: 8/16/2018 7:44:54 PM EDT

[#22]

Napalm, lots of napalm

Posted: 8/16/2018 7:46:53 PM EDT

[#23]

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Should have had that than fucked around with the M60. Guess we just couldn't have a Nazi gun even though it was a good one.

Posted: 8/16/2018 7:48:23 PM EDT

[#24]

11th MAR - Regimental Fire Mission

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYR-H4Hgoz8

Posted: 8/16/2018 7:51:07 PM EDT

[#25]

This

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Some of these

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and a bunch of them

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Posted: 8/16/2018 7:54:12 PM EDT

[#26]

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... at the height of the Korean War. Your unit has The High Ground and the Chinese are attacking in human waves. What modern rifle machine gun, or crew-served weapon would you want?

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"or crew-served weapon"

Posted: 8/16/2018 7:55:12 PM EDT

[#27]

Mk 19

Posted: 8/16/2018 8:01:13 PM EDT

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Posted: 8/16/2018 8:04:22 PM EDT

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Posted: 8/16/2018 8:04:30 PM EDT

[#30]

Better the west side than the east side.

I highly recommend the documentary on Task Force Faith. I believe it is on Amazon Prime.

Those guys had it much worse!

Posted: 8/16/2018 8:32:19 PM EDT

[#31]

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+1 and WP

Posted: 8/16/2018 9:16:46 PM EDT

[#32]

A whole bunch of mini-guns, and pallets full of ammo.

Posted: 8/16/2018 9:20:59 PM EDT

[#33]

Browning 1917s if I am in a static position facing human wave assaults. Throw in some wire and claymores and you have a party.

Posted: 8/16/2018 9:22:25 PM EDT

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... at the height of the Korean War. Your unit has The High Ground and the Chinese are attacking in human waves. What modern rifle machine gun, or crew-served weapon would you want?

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I'm, quad 50's didn't suck then, and still don't

Posted: 8/16/2018 9:24:18 PM EDT

[#35]

Regiment of Apaches with the night vision gear and no ROI.

Posted: 8/16/2018 9:28:20 PM EDT

[#36]

MG3 with the 45v buffer (1500 RPM, 42 was 1200, 34 was ~800) lots of them, with lots of spare barrels, and ammo.

If I can't have the 45V buffer with the MG3, I'll take the 45v, in 8x57, in fact may as well go 8x57 to start, and load the really hot API stuff.

The Israeli AA 8mm is the truth, it makes a believer out of me... fired it out of a 98k... massive fireball, recoil, and penetration, rifle required aid of 2x4 to cycle... dangerously overpressure I think.

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Thats with something available at the time, if we are talking now...

Napalm and Cluster Munitions everywhere... followed by Spooky orbiting above.

Posted: 8/16/2018 9:32:10 PM EDT

[#37]

No way I'm getting within 500 miles of the Yalu river.

Posted: 8/16/2018 9:32:53 PM EDT

[#38]

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Posted: 8/16/2018 9:34:24 PM EDT

[#39]

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... at the height of the Korean War. Your unit has The High Ground and the Chinese are attacking in human waves. What modern rifle machine gun, or crew-served weapon would you want?

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Iirc the British ran some water cooled machine guns for almost 24 hours straight in WWI.
I want those.

Posted: 8/16/2018 9:37:51 PM EDT

[#40]

120mm mortars and lots of 240's

Posted: 8/16/2018 9:43:06 PM EDT

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MK19 for the win.

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Posted: 8/16/2018 9:45:42 PM EDT

[#42]

OP thinks small. Give me a modern version of Puff.

Posted: 8/16/2018 9:46:01 PM EDT

[#43]

Lots of 240 replies. Question: From a fixed position, what does a 240b provide that a Browning .30 doesn't? Sure, there are positives over the older design, bit is it really consequential, given the circumstances?

Eta- I've humped that fuckin' 27.6 lb bastard all over and shot everything in between. It's fine for what it is, though heavy.

Posted: 8/16/2018 9:46:21 PM EDT

[#44]

Water cooled Brownung 1917 HMG...A water supply and lots of ammo. In a sustained fire role...I find it hard to believe an aircooled LMG can hang with this old warhorse.

Claymores... lots of claymores....and a good radio to call in artillery and air strikes.

Posted: 8/16/2018 9:48:16 PM EDT

[#45]

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Water cooled Brownung 1917 HMG...A water supply and lots of ammo. In a sustained fire role...I find it hard to believe an aircooled LMG can hang with this old warhorse.

Claymores... lots of claymores....and a good radio to call in artillery and air strikes.

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At Chosin, a soviet Maxim with a tractor cap to stuff snow in might be a better choice than water cooled

Posted: 8/16/2018 9:49:40 PM EDT

[#46]

Shelby Mustang.

Posted: 8/16/2018 9:53:47 PM EDT

[#47]

It would have been a great help just to have Congress back the effort for the soldiers that were there and needed help. However, I'd call for an airburst of white phoz and napalm. Start at the entry point of the enemy and work towards the line. Burn the fuck to ashes.

Posted: 8/16/2018 9:55:34 PM EDT

[#48]

Wasn't Chosin where the quad-50s held the line? Been awhile since I read on that.

Posted: 8/16/2018 9:56:08 PM EDT

[#49]

Nukes on the homeland or why bother

A congressional committee lead by Democrats will approve the sale of IC chip manufacturing equipment
to them in another thirty some years

Posted: 8/16/2018 9:57:52 PM EDT

[#50]

For those saying 1917 water-cooled. Just an FYI...

I've recently spoken with a USMC vet. Was a 1917 gunner in Korea. Said they had to put diesel or antifreeze in the barrel jackets to keep them from freezing.

Modern stuff: PKMs, Mark 19s and similar.

7.62 AR platform, or if too advanced/too weather sensitive, then M14s. Still get rate of fire, longer accuracy, and minimal troop retraining.

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