What classifies the gun as AR and what classifies as SF rifle?

Everybody please don’t turn this topic into a shit storm.
Thank you

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They should correct it and put the Federov where it belongs. It is an automatic rifle!

Yes at BR2 with horrible stats like it’s supposed to have and not at BR5

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Seriously though this Fedorov buff just, rubs the wrong way, as it stands the Fedorov has all the advantages of a SFRs damage output, or an LMGs but none of the downsides such as slower sprint speed or reduced ammunition reserve, I don’t understand why this was needed

Even worse is that a gun shooting the exact same ammo in the type 96 is stuck with 12.3 dmg only.
So even the it is full caliber round so it has to be 13.9 dmg is inconsitent.

you could say the same for any LMG. this is just MG balancing.

Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov himself named his weapon in 1913 with the new term “avtomat”, which in the future will be called assault rifles in the USSR and Russia. Even Fedorov when he coined the term also described the role of this weapon on the battlefield in a concept that is still applied to assault rifles in modern times

in short the Fedorov assault rifle is an assault rifle at the personal request of its creator

I don’t see how this has anything to do with the computer games and their balance.

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If it did not, then it would have been possible to forget for a long time about the need for accurate implementation of game models of weapons and their characteristics, thereby making the MP 40 under 30-06, mg 42 under 43acp, bolt-action rifles to give out endless cartridges and a rate of fire under 1000 rounds per minute, etc. since such characteristics of weapons are weapons, including their purpose, the BAR machine gun was considered exactly as a machine gun, so it is in the pumping branch as a machine gun, and m2 as a personal infantry weapon that only partially performs the functions of a machine gun or a submachine gun. in its essence, a complete replacement of their functions was not provided for in itself

In short, the roles of guns in our game have migrated from real life, only one automatic type hei rifles made a concession because of the stinginess of Japanese weapons

what kind of copium are Russian “historians” on to stretch a machine gun into an assault rifle?
The concept of assault rifle didnt even exist back then, but lets look at the facts:
The Fedorov Avtomat was designed by Fyodorov after he had returned from France.
His main inspiration was the Chauchat, a French automatic rifle, automatic rifle just means light machine gun since the term LMG didnt exist back than.
Contemporary weapons such as the BAR1918 and Lewis gun were also designed for Automatic rifle role.
The 6.5 Arisaka round is not an intermediate cartridge and was chosen because it was available in large numbers and the 7.62×54mmR is unsuitable for WW1 automatic rifle role.

The term “automatic rifle” didnt exist in Russian at all so Fydorov “invented” the Avtomat term since machine gun meant a heavy automatic weapon usually fired from fixed position like the Maxim machine gun, however unlike the English term automatic rifle, the Russian Avtomat term was incorrectly applied to describe the completely different assault rifle, which is obviously the source of this Mandela effect.
This isnt just unique to Russia though, the term submachine gun and machine pistol in English are also messed up big time.
Also in Hungarian Assault rifle is “gépkarabély”=machinecarbine which is only half correct.

Contrary to popular belief, the automatic rifle was not the predecessor of assault rifles, the submachine gun was the assault rifle´s predecessor while automatic rifles ultimately evolved into multi-role battle rifles such as FG42.
TL;DR: Fedorov Avtomat was designed for automatic rifle role which just meant portable light machine gun in WW1.

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And even then, both the BAR and the Chauchat are also machine guns.

I mentioned that :slightly_smiling_face:
twice actually

Rather meant their ingame classifications.

oh okay, that is fair.

Yes, and the Avtomat is not a proper name, it is a new class of weapons and yes, in fact, for some time later, submachine guns were also attributed to this class due to ignorance, but this does not cancel the role assigned to “avtomat” by the creator.

And I will also add that yes, now there was no automatic rifle at that time, but then after the creation of AVT and ABC, they were called automatic rifles only because they could shoot in fully automatic mode, and not because they were designed for this, about ABC in general it was written that it could only be used in fully automatic mode. in the most extreme cases, since it was poorly made and excessively wore out parts more than it did with machine guns, the Fedorov submachine gun’s recommendation of shooting single shots was justified in the same way as it is now with modern avtomats by the fact that it is so simple to be more precise, the conditions for using a fully automatic firing mode for the Fedorov submachine gun and the conditional ak are the same

P. s. my translator is cursed he translates from Russian to English in one way, and then the same text from English to Russian in another way so I’m afraid to think what is really written here and I apologize in advance for poor literacy

So basically “fedorov named his gun avtomat (AR) because the proper nomenclature didn’t exist back then” is what I understand here.
This hardly holds any value and is at most a historical curiosity, especially in this topic.

Well, as if yes, but then my nonsense on the type that the mg 42 is an assault rifle also makes sense

Then especially the Chauchat machine gun can be attributed to assault rifles because for those times it was a new class of weapons
Well, the nomenclature that was created at that time turned into modernity, this should also be taken into account.

I don’t think it’s a good idea. It’s like saying oxygen didn’t exist before XVIII century.

Not to mention it completely ignores how the guns were actually used by military. BAR is a great example.

And this only confirms my conclusion that the Fedorov assault rifle is an assault rifle