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Most fire is suppressing fire. If you could have the equivalent of suppressing fire without needing to waste bullets that'd be a huge change.
by serioussecurity 7y ago
Most fire is suppressing fire. If you could have the equivalent of suppressing fire without needing to waste bullets that'd be a huge change.
- otoburb 7y ago>>The SMASH [...] "allows the weapon to fire only when it's a guaranteed hit," he said. This "capability" sounds somewhat contrary to the purpose of suppressing fire.
- ryanmarsh 7y agoSuppressing fire is used to keep the enemy’s head down and to reduce their volume of fire even from defilade so that you can move shoot and communicate. Obviously it is preferable to kill your enemy but you can’t always see them.
- serioussecurity 7y agoIf they know there's a high probability they'll be hit they'll adapt their behavior. The uncertainty of whether or not you're painted is significant.
- swalsh 7y agoThis doesn't solve the problem of "I know the enemy is in that general direction, but I cant see them" which is more or less why you might use suppressing fire.
- clSTophEjUdRanu 7y agoLike a weapon sight that only releases the hammer when the target is more than 90% likely to be hit. This should be a selector switch to disable if desired for free gunning.