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« on: August 31, 2011, 04:13:36 pm »
Why? Um... Because of the improving nature of body armor being developed around the world (which I personally think is a bit ridiculous, how do you expect to massively improve material science in just a few months?) We in the relatively minor nation of Norway need a different strategy than spraying automatic fire. We need larger, more powerful weapons, to penetrate these more powerful armors. Seeing an organized line arrayed against you is also quite demoralizing for any enemy, and because we assume that the countries in NATO will assist us in obtaining these armors, we need not be afraid of the automatic weapons that would've destroyed lines previously. I shall add that perhaps this is vulnerable to tanks and artillery, but they are relatively minor threats when you look at what'll happen if we just stand by and let infantry that are impervious to our guns walk by unmolested.
As to how the Norwegians know about this, I assume that the very tightly connected NATO high-command is telling each other about they're projects, and so we extrapolate that the enemies of Norway are developing extremely strong armors as well. I also assume that semi-automatic weapons are a great deal stronger than automatic weapons, and if not, then start developing them so that they are.