Talk:FAMAS/@comment-25539832-20190611184215/@comment-25539832-20190825054014

Also, sir, of course the SPAS-12 isn't a carbine it's obviously being referred to as a Fletchette (already explained). And I'd like to bring Google in to explain that the SCAR-H is a carbine.

"All carbines are rifles, but not all rifles are carbines. ...Rifle - a long arm with a rifled barrel. Carbine - a riflewith a shorter barrel. Assault rifle - a rifle (or carbine) capable of select fire and chambered for an intermediate cartridge." "A carbine doesn’t have to be a shortened version of an existing rifle."

https://www.quora.com/What-differentiates-a-Carbine-from-an-Assault-Rifle

Read up.

Ever heard of the M4A1 carbine? Or the HK417? Perhaps you've picked one of these up a few (hundred) times. These are carbines by nature just as the SCAR-H is. Just because they're assault rifles doesn't mean they're not carbines.

I'd also like to point out that my intention was to refer to a higher-caliber repeating rifle as a carbine, which makes sense since the SCAR-H has high damage with a low mag. While I know the BAR M1918 is most definitely an LMG, I think of it as a carbine, too (even though it's not). It's just too similar to the SCAR-H in the game... I posted that comment a long time ago, but I think I might have meant to encompass the idea of the BAR under the carbine wing. Today I just think of the BAR and SCAR as those two guns.

Carbine also tends to include DMRs so I've mostly dropped carbine from my gun vocabulary when speaking of surviv weapons. To me, now, all Burst and Auto 5.56mm and 7.62mm guns (that aren't LMGs) are ARs. And this, to my knowledge, is correct. Everything else 5.56 or 7.62 is, to my knowledge, an LMG, DMR, Bolt-action sniper, or the OT revolvers.

But please, correct me if I'm wrong.