It really is because straight magazines (as opposed to curved) are cheaper to produce and you can get about a maximum of 25 rounds of 5.56 in a straight magazine before your start having reliability issues.
You might have an extra one in the chamber as well so should we take that into account too or not? What if the rifle jams and you end up to another number not divisible by 3 again? What if the soldier fired a few rounds in semi auto before switching to burst?
Clearly the solution is that everyone should be given a few loose rounds so they can top their mags up to a number divisible by 3 whenever they get to an unacceptable situation where the number of rounds left in their mag is non-divisible by 3 during combat. This should remain their top priority. You can’t acceptably allow the rifle to fire one or two rounds when you expect three. The enemy might file a complaint if that ever happened. Also pay no attention to the fact that the M16 already isn’t guaranteed to fire three rounds on its first burst because the 3 round burst mechanism “counts” the shots in semi auto and it doesn’t reset when you switch it to burst.
Clearly what we need to do is invent some sort of Quantum magazine that will always contain enough rounds to complete a burst no matter what happens until then. Burst mode is simply ahead of its time. The other technologies need to catch up.
I think the solution is to design a magazine with nested minimags containing three rounds each. That way, if any of them have less than three rounds, you can replace that section of your magazine. Of course, these minimags cannot feed rounds unless they contain 3 rounds, so you will never gets “bursts” of 1 or 2, if you can even call them that.
It really is because straight magazines (as opposed to curved) are cheaper to produce and you can get about a maximum of 25 rounds of 5.56 in a straight magazine before your start having reliability issues.
You seen those warriors from Hammerfel? They got curved magazines. Curved. Magazines.
If only there was a number divisable by three near 25.
Turns out that 25 is more than that number though…
You might have an extra one in the chamber as well so should we take that into account too or not? What if the rifle jams and you end up to another number not divisible by 3 again? What if the soldier fired a few rounds in semi auto before switching to burst?
Clearly the solution is that everyone should be given a few loose rounds so they can top their mags up to a number divisible by 3 whenever they get to an unacceptable situation where the number of rounds left in their mag is non-divisible by 3 during combat. This should remain their top priority. You can’t acceptably allow the rifle to fire one or two rounds when you expect three. The enemy might file a complaint if that ever happened. Also pay no attention to the fact that the M16 already isn’t guaranteed to fire three rounds on its first burst because the 3 round burst mechanism “counts” the shots in semi auto and it doesn’t reset when you switch it to burst.
Clearly what we need to do is invent some sort of Quantum magazine that will always contain enough rounds to complete a burst no matter what happens until then. Burst mode is simply ahead of its time. The other technologies need to catch up.
I think the solution is to design a magazine with nested minimags containing three rounds each. That way, if any of them have less than three rounds, you can replace that section of your magazine. Of course, these minimags cannot feed rounds unless they contain 3 rounds, so you will never gets “bursts” of 1 or 2, if you can even call them that.