Talk:BAR M1918/@comment-39661921-20190708160906/@comment-25539832-20190910012354

Yeah it's deployment in WWI was a "Squad-Level Automatic Support Weapon" (which spells SAW if you look at it right). Most times LMGs are deployed as SAWs, but LMGs aren't always SAWs, sometimes LMGs are mounted on vehicles or planted in a defensive position with a tripod (actually I think that's a GPMG but ya get the point). As this weapon demonstrates, too, a SAW doesn't have to be an LMG. This weapon is not an Assault Rifle, it is an Automatic Rifle. It was designed during The Great War (yes, it's a WWI weapon) to give troops automatic suppressing fire when they crossover no-man's-land in trench warfare, since the MMGs mounted for defense in their own trenches were far too heavy to mobilize to support the attacking troops. Light automatic weapon, definitely not an assault rifle nor a machine gun.

One thing I would like to know is if a Heavy-Barrel Assault Rifle technically counts as an LMG, the QBZ and AUG (HBAR) and RPK are these, but are they really any more than assault rifles (with extended magazines)? Maybe I'm thinking more along the lines of a GPMG (again).

If such is true then I guess all HBARs are LMGs.

sorry for necropost just really needed to get this off my chest