Regardless of one caliber’s (slight?) superiority over another, the key is a rifle that is sufficiently accurate to hit the enemy, and that is utterly reliable under harsh conditions.
If it won’t fire, caliber is worthless. That’s why the AK is so ubiquitous. Extreme reliability that takes no skill to maintain.
“If it won’t fire, caliber is worthless. That
s why the AK is so ubiquitous. Extreme reliability that takes no skill to maintain.”
It is so ubiquitous because the Soviet Union handed them out like candy to every knuckle-dragging third world terrorist group they could find, and lavishly supplied them to turd-world dictators to gain favor and destabilize half the globe. The various groups of murder-monkeys have stayed with them out of familiarity, like we were equipping the New Iraqi Army with Soviet-bloc equipment because that was the fastest learning curve.