Free-floating barrels is certainly older than the PSG-1. I'd say in some quarters it goes back to at least the 1950s.
Free-floating barrels is certainly older than the PSG-1. I'd say in some quarters it goes back to at least the 1950s.
"On the plains and mountains of the American West, the United States Army had once learned everything there was to learn about hit-and-run tactics and guerrilla warfare."
T.R. Fehrenbach This Kind of War
On the other hand, weapons like the RPK probably have a bipod on the barrel in part to create this dispersion. It's not always a disadvantage, especially not in cyclic fire.
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